Sick Boy (2012) Reviews

• What a monumental waste of time.

  Thrill_KillZ2012-07-28

  First off, the only thing about this film that didn't stick out negatively is the cinematography. That said it's all about this ditsy girl who takes a babysitting job as a favor for her friend, it was high paying so she took it. She is told the kid is sick & never to go downstairs for any reason, of course the dumb girl doesn't listen & seventy minutes later it culminates to a lousy unsatisfactory ending. The lead actress in this should win an award, an award for annoying pathetically poor acting. I stuck around for the entire run time but only because I wanted to see her die horribly. The plot could have been printed on a fortune cookie. Don't pay for this! It has nothing good to offer. It's just another 3/10 film that will leave you saying oh man I should have known better. Well at least that was my feeling.

• My IQ shrunk to zero after this junk

  pulstromb2012-07-29

  As a matter of fact, I don't even know where to start... Everything is chaotic, nothing seems to be logical, which is the "less" problem. The acting is so individually terrible, I thought first, it must be a joke or just my eyes played some sort of tricky games, but no! And they call themselves "actors". No one in this film played decent or at least somewhere like average. My brain was irreparably damaged after this and I only suggest "Sick boy" to those people, who are enough crazy and agile. There was a moment in some of the conversations, when I tried to find out, which "actor" was worse and there was my laugh breaking the dumb silence... maybe it was a side effect, I don't really care.

• Nothing overly impressive here...

  paul_haakonsen2012-08-04

  Having read the reviews of this movie, I wasn't overly thrilled to sit down and watch it, but still decided to give it the benefit of the doubt; as I am of the creed that what others might not like, I might like, and vice versa. I will say that "Sick Boy" is quite slow in moving ahead, it takes way over half of the movie before it starts to get up in gear, and even then it is nothing overly impressive. The story is about Lucy (played by Skye McCole Bartusiak) who is hired by Helen Gordan (played by Debbie Rochon, who actually put on the most impressive performance of all the people in the movie) to basically stay in her home while she is working at night, to make sure nothing happens to her sick son who is downstairs. The son is very ill with some unknown disease. Lucy is told not to go downstairs no matter what, but of course her curiosity gets the better of her and she ventures down the stairs... "Sick Boy" tried really hard to build up suspense, but it didn't really amount to anything, because there was no particular thrilling climaxes to anything it was trying to do. The movie was rather predictable. I will say that it was actually something that could pass for a good introduction for a continuation of a zombie outbreak, but as a stand-alone movie, it wasn't all that impressive. There was a little bit of gore in the movie, but hardly enough to even arouse the interest of most gore-hounds. And what was up with the red, glowing eyes of those infected with the sickness that came from South America? That was just downright stupid and made the movie come off as a super lame low budget movie. One thing puzzled me, why did the police officer just started to blast away at the child once he entered the house? Shouldn't he give some warning at least? And he had no morale issues with shooting a child? No remorse, no emotion, it was just like a drone shooting at target practice. That scene was really lame. "Sick Boy" wasn't scary in any way, nor was it really thrilling. It was just less than adequate entertainment, and having seen it now, I can honestly say that this is not a movie that will be making a second trip back to my DVD player.

• Not THAT bad...give it a chance

  MissOceanB2012-11-02

  Sick Boy has a low rating, yes, so I went into it thinking it will be awful. However, in the end it wasn't too bad but I wouldn't watch it again (once you've seen it, you've seen it - nothing to "go through" or re- evaluate). The acting of the lead is sub-par and really annoying at times especially near the end, the movie starts verrry slowly and her boyfriend is a bit of an idiot...but if you can look past that, the story itself (although it's been done before and you'll see why) is solid and suspenseful. I particularly liked the look of the sick boy, skin color, eyes, as you see in the trailer. There are moments you will be thinking "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?" when it comes to the lead actor's decisions, but in the end it wasn't too bad. Obviously very low-budget but budget doesn't always mean BAD film.

• Interesting approach, but feels like a waste of time.

  bjjnedan2012-07-29

  First off, this movie is about this really stupid chick who babysits for a family that has some kid that is sick with an unknown disease. A sickness referred to as "the blue flu" because it turns the skin of those afflicted by it blue. And..., it causes them to turn psycho and eat human flesh. So..., yeah this is a zombie movie. Not a very good one, but interesting, I guess. If you can suffer through the terrible acting from the cast who have the emotional range of a rock, a very stupid rock, then..., well..., then nothing. There's nothing about this movie that makes suffering through the first 20 minutes of it worth a damn. I can't think of anything good to say about this, other than the lead actress is pretty hot, but incredibly stupid. Seriously, she's almost stupid enough that I'd much rather watch her die horribly than to see her naked. And that's really bad cuz I love naked hot chicks. Anyways, from the very start, this movie is pretty much just plain bad. Like I touched on a bit earlier, the characters are completely devoid of emotion, since stupid is not an emotion. The music, or sound effects, whatever, seem to try to make certain scenes out to be thrilling or menacing, when there was absolutely nothing going on, at all. If you watch it and are able to endure the very stupid people acting poorly long enough to get to it, the scene where the stupid blonde is exploring the outside of the house is the main example I have for misplaced tension. The menacing sound effects made it seem like something was about to happen, yet this dumb b**** just stares blankly at the water for a minute. I've read reviews on other sites about how this is suppose to some kind of horror genius. This movie is genius like Jenna Jamison is a Grammy contender. This movie is just bad, I can't in good conscience recommend this movie to anybody. Even if you are a hardcore fanboy of the zombie genre, you really should pass on this because it really is a waste of time. I gave it a 2 for the sheer doableness of the lead retard, actress(either works).