iBoy
2017
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1h 30min
• Action, Crime, Science Fiction
In IBOY, Tom (Bill Milner) is a high school student living in rundown London projects with his feisty grandmother (Miranda Richardson). His complex is riddled with gang members, most of whom he grew up with. When one kid refuses to join, the members rape his sister, Lucy (Maisie Williams), the girl Tom has a crush on. Tom sees the attackers leaving and they shoot him in the head while he holds his phone to his ear, calling for help. When he wakes up, the phone is embedded in his brain and iBoy is born -- a nerdy guy with an array of bizarre, sci-fi super powers. Faster than a speeding bullet, he can look anything up on the internet, rifle through data bases, perform calculations, anonymously send texts and make calls, and eavesdrop on conversations, all just by thinking about them. He can turn other people's devices on or off remotely and also make electronic equipment explode at will. He is all set to be the perfect, undetectable vigilante. Using his search powers, he secretly finds the gang's bosses and begins to sabotage and stalk them. The biggest boss comes after him and Lucy with beatings, guns, and threats. The height of threat and tension results in a fairly typical bad guy-good guy face off in which, rather implausibly, cyber-good triumphs.
