Started out well but went nowhere. Half decent special effects , acting not bad, story could have been a winner but the actual idea that having a piece of a broken smartphone in your head (we are never told if its an iphone and it didn't look like one) and turning you into a superpower hero is just laughable it actually sounds like something a schoolboy had written for his first year in English class fiction studies!

What is it with British films these days they used to be so wonderful. Almost all of them now are set in some gang infested London backwater replete with oodles of violence , foul language , overt sex and no story that's what seems to be the recipe for another walk down depressville lane and suicide alley.

I want to watch a film now and again and come out enervated and full of hope for the future or at least a smidgen of joy but these days after watching dross like this you come out feeling hopeless, depressed and suicidal.

Is this really life in Britain today; well yes it probably is but that is why the cinema should be a place to go to be taken out of yourself and not reminded of the grim reality of the truth of life!

Joyless , soulless, plot weak drivel.

I wouldn't class IBOY as a decent film, as have some other reviewers, but it isn't quite as bad as I expected. The title makes it sound like some CBBC kid's drama series but this turns out to be a much more adult production than I was expecting. There are bad-guy supporting characters borrowed from KIDULTHOOD, some mock-superhero aspects, a gloomy black-and-blue digital look, and a story which keeps you mildly engaged thanks to a script which works a bit harder on the characterisation than you might expect. The performances are nothing to write home about, with Miranda Richardson criminally wasted in support and Rory Kinnear randomly turning up at the end to play a stock villain. Maisie Williams gets a lot of attention but doesn't really make a mark. The smartphone angle didn't interest me too much and, as usual, there's an over-reliance on CGI over the basic aspects of storytelling and suspense-building.

Tom (Bill Milner) likes Lucy (Maise Williams) and goes to study with her. He discovers she has been attacked and flees. As he calls for help on the run, he is shot in the phone/head with pieces of his smart phone embedded in his brain. This gives Tom certain hacking abilities and he becomes vigilante to avenge the rape of Lucy and to clean up the neighborhood in general.

The film follows your basic Spiderman formula, geek turns vigilante super hero, with a downplay on the villain and abilities.

Guide: F-word. Implied rape. No sex or nudity.