The film is about a high school boy who wakes from a coma with components of his cellular phone embedded in his mind. And worse, that returning to everyday teenage lifestyles is not possible due to the fact he has developed a bizarre set of incredible powers.
[The] positives aren't really enough to make iBoy feel like much more than another teen sci-fi. It's a thrill ride up to a point, but there are many films that do what it's doing better and with more heart.
iBoy has an original-enough concept, taken from a book by Kevin Brooks, but any freshness is muffled by the dated gangster movie clichés peppered throughout the script.
iBoy is a sparky film, embedded in London's cheek-by-jowl world of wealth and poverty. It's also a dark teen drama, peppered with brutal beatings, gang rape, drugs and dead bodies.
