Billionaire Boys Club

R

Released Aug 17, 2018

1 hr. 48 min.

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

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7%

15 Reviews

Tomatometer

33%

250+ Ratings

Audience Score

A group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establishes a get-rich-quick scam that turns deadly.

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Mridin G

Despite the surprisingly low rating of the movie, I found it to be a fairly average storyline with average casting. Spacey did a fine job while the others managed to stay decent. However, for a movie filled with crime and hate, it was much too mild and emphasis wasn't put in the right scenes.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/04/24

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Kimberley M

Ansel Elgort gave stellar and believable performance. Casting Emma Roberts as Sydney was also a good choice, they had great chemistry on screen, even thought that wasn't the main focus of the movie. It was a fun watch and I thoroughly enjoyed how they showed the social dynamics and attitudes of the rich without belabouring them. I've seen this movie get a lot of hate and criticism, but I don't agree with any of it. It was fast paced, fluid and coherent. James Cox did an excellent job here. I hope that with the passage of time people come to appreciate the gem BBC is.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

12/31/23

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B-RYE

This movie doesn't follow an accurate account of what Joe Hunt was really like. The movie tries to make it look like Dean Karny was the mastermind behind the BBC's plans. Also, the movie felt rushed. The murder scene of Ron Levin wasn't ever proven to be true so Ron's murder scene is complete fiction.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/30/23

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Ziggy D

Plot that never coalesces turns into a movie that won't end. Guaranteed 100% skippable.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

05/18/23

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Audience Member

Unbalanced melodrama with uneven characters line.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Audience Member

I found the start of the movie to be very interesting, then it slowed down a little after that. There are parts when the acting seemed a bit forced; direction was just okay, in my opinion. I didn't know anything about the real-life story this movie was based on, so I did feel like I learned a little while watching.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

04/10/22

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James Cox

Director

Ansel Elgort

Joe Hunt

Taron Egerton

Dean Karny

Emma Roberts

Sydney

Kevin Spacey

Ron Levin

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Carlos Aguilar

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Cox has managed to recruit great actors only to elicit bafflingly melodramatic and stilted work. Emma Roberts, as an aspiring artist and the only female character with more than a couple speaking lines, is particularly wasted.

Sep 27, 2018

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Ed Power

Daily Telegraph (UK)

It should... be avoided like a contagious rash.

Rated: 1/5

Aug 21, 2018

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Peter Debruge

Variety

Cox finds himself doing a poor imitation of Martin Scorsese, channeling the manic hedonism of both "Goodfellas" and "The Wolf of Wall Street," minus the seductive magnetism of either film's central performance.

Aug 20, 2018

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S. Indra Sathiabalan

The Sun Daily (Malaysia)

While this version may actually be closer to the real-life incidents that took place, it is still a bit of a draggy affair.

Mar 25, 2019

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Louisa Moore

Screen Zealots

This is bargain basement stuff that deserves to be treated as such.

Rated: 1.5/5

Dec 22, 2018

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Richard James Havis

South China Morning Post

Why a director would try so hard to clean up the image of an inhuman convicted felon beggars belief.

Rated: 1/5

Sep 27, 2018

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Synopsis

A group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establishes a get-rich-quick scam that turns deadly.

Director: James Cox
Screenwriter: James Cox, Captain Mauzner
Distributor: Vertical Entertainment
Production Co: Elevated Films
Rating: R (Language Throughout|Drug Use|Sexual Content|Some Violence)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 17, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 17, 2019

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