Kill Your Friends

Kill Your Friends

2015 "Lies. Betrayal. Murder. Just another day in the music industry."
Kill Your Friends
Kill Your Friends

Kill Your Friends

6 | 1h44m | NR | en | Comedy

In the late 1990s, a drug-addled nihilist resorts to murder to climb the ladder of the London music industry.

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6 | 1h44m | NR | en | Comedy , Thriller , Crime | More Info
Released: November. 06,2015 | Released Producted By: Altitude Film Entertainment , AI Film Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.altitudefilment.com/film/production/2
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In the late 1990s, a drug-addled nihilist resorts to murder to climb the ladder of the London music industry.

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Nicholas Hoult , Craig Roberts , Georgia King

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James Price

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Leofwine_draca I'm constantly surprised that stupid films like this one keep getting made when there's so much better stuff out there that could be adapted for the screen. KILL YOUR FRIENDS is nothing more than an American Psycho rip-off, set in Britain during the booming music scene in the late 1990s. Nicholas Hoult plays a young and ambitious producer who discovers that the best way to get ahead in the business is to murder his rivals.This was based on a novel I have no interest in reading because this really is terrible entertainment. It's about the most low brow film I can think of, with a script filled with expletives and no wit. Hoult plays a horrible character in a film filled with horrible characters and there really is no reason to watch. It's widely advertised as a gory serial killer type movie when in fact it's very slow paced and murder barely plays a part in the proceedings.KILL YOUR FRIENDS is a film about unpleasant people made for unpleasant people. I suppose it might have been made as a black comedy but I can truthfully say I didn't laugh once. Hoult has no presence as a leading man; he got away with it in JACK THE GIANT SLAYER because he had plenty of acting heavyweights in support, but here he's completely out of his depth. The less said about James Corden's non-acting style the better. This is one of the few films that I wish I'd never bothered watching.
Sci-fi_princess My husband and I nearly switched off after 15 minutes and then wished we hadn't bothered watching by the time the film ended. There were a couple of moments that made us laugh in themselves and I guess some of the characters were interesting. If gory details are your thing then you might like it, but not for me.I found myself getting a bit annoyed with the main character and not in a good way. The key factor of his personality is shallowness and he's purely driven to satisfy his own ends, but I felt this led the character to be completely two dimensional and boring. The other characters were quite good though, it's a shame most of them don't come out so well by the end. This is described as a black comedy, but there wasn't enough comedy for me. Maybe you actually need to be part of that industry to find it funny.The main complaint I have is that the title suggests lots of killing of people who might be considered friends. We found the killing to be rather lacking. If they had been his friends at least there would have been some emotional dilemma, which may have improved this film.It could have been so much funnier than it was.
The Couchpotatoes The movie is all about Steven Stefox (played by Nicholas Hoult), a guy working in the music industry, as a guy that is supposed to discover and sign new bands. He's not very good at his job, so he tries other ways to achieve his goals. I'm not sure why it's also categorized as a comedy because you won't laugh one bit. It's more a crime story with a lot of drugs and a narrating voice describing what to do to make it in the music industry. It's entertaining to watch. Steven is a narcissistic person, addicted to fancy drugs, and doing everything it takes to make it to the top. There are no likable characters in the movie but that's not the point. They are all career driven and very egoistic. Since it is about the music industry you have a lot of tunes, some good ones but also bad ones. It's not a bad movie even though I saw better similar ones.
FlashCallahan London, 1997. The British music industry is on a winning streak. Britpop rule the airwaves and Cool Britannia is in full swing. 27-year-old A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music business. Fueled by greed, ambition and drugs, Stelfox searches for his next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification. Created by an industry that demands success at any price, Stelfox takes the concept of 'killer tunes' to a new level in a desperate attempt to rocket propel his career into the big time.......A word if warning, if you don't find the thought of Nicholas Hoult being smug for the entire film, breaking the fourth wall with his damning social commentary, doing that thing where we see him saying something to somebody, and then realising that it's what he's thinking, and using the screen as his own catwalk, steer clear.He is Executive producer after all.As soon as the first song from the era played, I was sold right until the end. I was twenty when this film was set, and Britpop was everywhere. The late nineties had a small boom of yuppiedom about it, and although the people in this film are archetype dislikable snakes, it only makes it easier for us to root for the bad guy.The use of the music is predictable, but still a lot of fun. If you are a fan of The Prodigy, when the film plays 'Smack My Ahem Up', you know exactly what point of the song Steven is going to attack his victim.Like the people portrayed in the film, it is a very shallow affair, and the narrative just leads us to the path of Stevens next victim, and from the upstart, you know will get unjust desserts, because he looks at them a little bonkers.When watching it, one cannot help but reference American Psycho, a far more superior film and Book about consumerism.I wouldn't have been one bit surprised if this was called British psycho, it may have made a bit more money, and I guarantee if this were made fifteen years ago, when it would have been more appropriate, it would have starred Bale.But like I've said, if were certain demographic in 1997, there is a lot to appreciate here.Not a great film, but hugely nostalgic for some.And it features a great big middle finger to all those parasitic processed pop groups that poison our airwaves.