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what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

It's 1997 London. There's drugs, booze, girls, and more. Steven Stelfox (Nicholas Hoult) is an A&R man at a British record label. He's amoral, desperate for a hit, and ambitious. When his mate Roger Waters (James Corden) gets the promotion to be the head of A&R, he has no choice but to kill and much much worst.I like this movie about an ugly character. He is dark with no redeeming qualities. This could be even darker. I want Stelfox to sexually harass the Lazies singer at the end after the "lamentations of their women" line. I also want Rebecca's murder to be more viscerally brutal. This is a dark movie and one could enjoy it once you embrace the darkness.

'KILL YOUR FRIENDS': Four and a Half Stars (Out of Five)A very dark British thriller-comedy flick; about an extremely desperate A&R man, who will do anything to find the next big hit. The movie stars Nicholas Hoult, in the lead role; and it costars James Corden, Georgia King, Dustin Demri-Burns, Craig Roberts, Tom Riley, Joseph Mawle, Jim Piddock and Ed Skrein. It was directed by first time feature filmmaker Owen Harris, and it was written by John Niven. The film was based on Niven's 2008 novel (of the same name). It's the type of movie that left me feeling completely disgusted, when it was over (by nearly everything I just witnessed in the film), and I respect it for that. The story takes place in 1997 London; when British pop music was at it's popularity peak. The film cleverly illustrates how no one in the industry really knew what they were doing; but instead everything was left up to the ever-changing taste of the consumer. Hoult plays Steven Stelfox; a 27-year-old A&R man, who's desperately trying to make it big in his business. So desperate, he might even kill!The movie is really dark, and sometimes hard to watch. It's hard to watch, and yet I couldn't look away! I was planning to turn the movie off, halfway through (to get some sleep), but I couldn't rest until it was over. To me, that's a really good movie. I hated everything I was seeing, and despised all of the characters in it, but it was still really involving and fascinating. It's also funny, very darkly funny, but above all it's memorable. Hoult is great in the lead (it's his best performance to date) and I think Harris is a filmmaker to watch for.Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: https://youtu.be/8E1WKbyL3YM

It became a modern trend to rebrand shockingly poor films as "dark comedies" - it's one rock cliché after another, but it presents a parallel world where A&R people are the rockstars and the rockstars live lives of accountants.There are no laughs. It's not that absurd. It's just ridiculous.It follows the same story as Vinyl - if you've seen Vinyl, then this is almost the exact same story. A&R person kills someone, beats him to death with an award/trophy, the slowest, dumbest murder investigation, corruption, hedonism, sex, drugs (nopes, no rock 'n roll, just office workers pretending like they're rock stars).The show has an arrogant way of pretending "We (record companies) tell you what's cool, what isn't, we tell you what to listen to" and so on. It continues a theme started by certain shows about advertising, but takes it to a whole new level. The problem with that is how far they go and the irreconcilable issues they themselves present with this.Firstly, they show that they can make any bunch of idiots into rockstars and pop idols, it's all make up, photography, studio work and so on, fine. So the record companies make the stars. They tell the fans what to like and what not to like. Fine. But then they have this incredible fear of missing out on the next big band - what? Didn't you just say you tell people what to like? Didn't you say you can make any nobody into a star? So how do you "miss out"? "I don't want to be the person who said 'no' to band X..." It makes no sense. It's a terrible film made by someone who clearly feels left out. They want to be stars, they want to party like they're stars, but can't, so they pretend that they hold all the power.In reality this doesn't make sense. It's one massive ego trip and fails to be anything but that.If you really want to see this film, watch Vinyl instead. Same story, but better made. Vinyl is a 5/10, but it's almost twice as better as this crap.

I've been a fan of Nicholas Hoult since his Skins days, in my opinion the best written TV series ever! A part of what I like bout Skins is clearly visible in "Kill your friends" as well.I'm particularly talking about how emotions are portrayed through sound-less party scenes or quiet shots with slower music of busy city life. Contrasts. On the surface, this movie is very much about sex and drugs. But it's really about ambition and life choices.I also enjoyed the 90's music selection and the fact that the title of the movie makes sense and is over-the-top, but without turning the movie into some silly parody of itself.