Wonderful character development!

Strong and Moving!

Just so...so bad

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Does Johnny convince us as a killer? A great idea for a movie that often does not really work through lack of credibility. Marc Marut (Johnny) is a good actor and is convincing in his anguish to please. The viewer quickly catches on to the idea that Johnny is a revenge killer - revenge on neighbours for 'denying' him affection. He lacks self knowledge in that he never sees his demands as intrusive and hardly likely to win affection. Moreover, the rage scenes are a bit hammy and Johnny changes too rapidly from manic teenage killer to avid sycophantic 'friend' and he loses the opportunity to astound us in his all-too-rapid transformations. We thereby sometimes lose our willing suspension of disbelief and find ourselves watching just a bunch of low-budget actors. The mother, Melissa, (prettily attractive Alexandra Paul) is perpetually vapid. Too many fatuous greetings and god-awful tawdry scenes of affection - like a hundred other 'family love' movies with tweedle-dumb music to harness our sympathies - mostly lost through a boring script that surely needed some enlivening before acceptance.The first murder scene occurs way too soon - we cannot identify with any of the characters and feel alarmed or sorry for anyone. Johnny's murderous disposition is also revealed way too soon without any backstory. Marc Marut is a good actor and could have done better if the director had worked a bit more on his screen personality. Some slower facial transformations? Some better convincing 'psycho' soliloquies? Credibility, and the echo of a dozen other similar recent films, makes this movie not so interesting to watch - and proves Hitchcock did it so much better 50 years ago. Pity.

An average almost "okay" thriller about a depraved/perverted young boy (Johnny) that is obsessed with a hot single mother. In order to get her love, Johnny makes friends with her young daughter, kills her mother, kills his own father!, an old lady that knows about his past, and tries to kill's her boyfriend. What a disgusting guy but at least he can say he tried EVERYTHING to have a real family.We learn that Johnny is an abused child and that he needs help desperately after being suspect of his mother's death. So we have character development unlike other movies like this. The dialogs aren't the most clever I must say but still work for this movie.If you enjoy movies where the "villain" or killer is a boy, then "Paperboy" is a must see for you. The actor who plays Johnny is very good in his role and manages to make the audience hate him! He's annoying, a liar, pervert, and you end up hating him. Good job. In fact, it's the kind of movie that makes you feel good when things go wrong to the bad guy.I'm disturbed by one scene in particular, i don't know if it was edited for t.v. but , does Johnny masturbates after hearing that Alexandra Paul's character is about to have sex with her boyfriend? I didn't understand the scene very well but one thing for sure is that Johnny is a very sick boy.Oh give this movie a try if you're an avid lover of B-thrillers. "The Paperboy" delivers expectations but I would wait for it to air on t.v. or cable instead of wasting money on it's rental price.

i saw this movie as a child and i don't have very fond memories of it- that is, it really scared me. i'm sure if i watched it again now that i'm older i wouldn't feel so creeped out about it. i remember quite a few scenes vividly- the main character is a twisted boy who kills without regard but whom nevertheless forms a strange bond with a younger girl next door. as i recall, people start to catch on to what he's about and the ending is a real bloodbath.this movie isn't for the faint of heart, but if you like stories about psycho killers and gruesome murders, then by all means, rent this movie, the paperboy won't disappoint you.

I watched the movie just today and I thought it was more hilarious than it was scary or a thriller. I don't know anyone who's actually found that movie scary, so obviously it isn't. I think I was probably in an energetic movie since I laughed the whole time. Just at the way Johny reacted to things.The cool thing about this movie about how Johny (Marc Marut) is very devilish and too obsessed, but most good movies aren't realistic at all. Hes a young kid around the age of 12-15 who has an obsession for a woman and his obsession goes a little too far causing people to die since they get in the way. I suspected that kid to be evil since he has some sort of innocent, yet a smart-a** side to him and its really disturbing. Many people will say it was a tasteless, corny and pretty lame movie, but the young actor couldn't have played his part better. He was really convincing!I'm not going to give a summary/ending or the whole point of the movie since thats a surprise for everyone else and I'm no good at it. I think the young actor plays a purfect part in it.