GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

SnoopyStyle It's 1997 London. There's drugs, booze, girls, and more. Steven Stelfox (Nicholas Hoult) is an A&R man at a British record label. He's amoral, desperate for a hit, and ambitious. When his mate Roger Waters (James Corden) gets the promotion to be the head of A&R, he has no choice but to kill and much much worst.I like this movie about an ugly character. He is dark with no redeeming qualities. This could be even darker. I want Stelfox to sexually harass the Lazies singer at the end after the "lamentations of their women" line. I also want Rebecca's murder to be more viscerally brutal. This is a dark movie and one could enjoy it once you embrace the darkness.

Timo Reichert "Kill Your Friends" is very good remake of "American Psycho". If you liked American Psycho - you won't regret watching "Kill your Friends". There are even some really cool references in the movie.In the end - the whole movie has a very dark and bizarre but still entertaining flair. Quite often during the movie I had the feeling of thinking that there is nothing anymore which could shock me and then BAM - something happened and my mind was blown away. A bit similar to the unpredictability in Game of Thrones.Oh and Nicholas Hoult's performance is pretty good. I liked the way they made him speak his thoughts into the camera and even redid some scenes so they matched his sometimes very bizarre thoughts/conscience.

shock-lit 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.

carfan724 I wasn't even sure if watching this movie is a good idea. But not trusting in the IMDb points proved me right once again. Kill your friends builds up the dramaturgy to a certain point, never getting too abstract or unrealistic. I have spent way too much time in London and in London's clubs and pubs to find the abuse of alcohol or cocaine unrealistic. And that was 2015. I couldn't imagine the music business in the 80s and 90s. On top of the storyline comes a brilliant cast. Nicholas Hoult is unexpectedly brilliant. I only knew him from warm bodies but this is a big leap in his acting. One of my favorite films until now in 2016.Sorry for the bad English.