Kill Your Friends (2016)

The movie was somewhat interesting in the beginning only because it was very similar to "American Psycho". However, after so many drug scenes, it just got plain boring. The characters are very good looking and are rather interesting. However, the plot just seems so disjointed that their efforts just tend to fall flat. I think a different script would have been extremely helpful as well. There are only so many f bombs and sexist insults you can stand. The main character was really complicated and intriguing. I wish the film had developed his character more than focusing on other aspects.By the way, use the subtitle feature so you can understand the dialogue. British brogue is very hard to understand. I am planning to read the novel to see if it is any better!!

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.

Nicholas Hoult of 'Skins' fame plays Steven Stelfox who is a twenty something 'A and R' man for a London based purveyor of awful music. He is the sort of person the eighties generation of greed produced. He has no soul and is only in it for the money. He knows it is a cut throat business and so decides to take that advice quite literally by doing just that.Now this is one of those films that has people either raving or seething and I think comparisons to 'American Psycho' have not aided this in gaining the audience it needs. It is a black comedy but the comedy is fairly well rationed out and if you find bad things happening to be about as funny as a sack of dead babies then you will not like this.The acting is as expected with no stand out performances and no one letting the side down either. James Corden is in it for a while and does his trademark getting his kit off – which is more worn out in terms of mirth than a 'Primark' welcome mat during sale season. Craig Roberts plays an awkward record co 'gofor' and is OK in that too. Hoult is believable and very unlikeable and I think that is the total point. The record industry is full of the sort or folk that you really do not want to be your best buds – even on a multi media social network. It is cut throat but using the vehicle of humour is a very good way to send it up and so I am in between the ravers and the seethers but actually appreciated this film – the good parts outweigh the lesser ones.

Kill Your Friends (2015) is an outstanding film based on the happenings with the music industry as an a&r rep. This film is beautifully packed with the perfect cast, the perfect script; this film is on point from start to finish. The moment I heard about Kill Your Friends (2015), I knew I had to see it that it was a film that had my attention and it did. As the movie started up it had that "Trainspotting" vibe to it, the chaos factor, the thrill ride; everything was intact. The way the story cycled through as it pulls you closer to the edge preparing to unwind; this film is perfect in all ways.This is a great film for indie musicians to watch, and of course fans of music in general; this movie does point out some true tips. This is certainly a film that will be in our personal DVD collection.