The deceptively marketed _I Kill Giants_ has nothing in common with Harry Potter or the other recent YA movies that the trailer and poster try to evoke. Instead, it reflects on how a child deals with pain and with understanding that there are forces beyond his/her control.

At a reasonable running time and powered by a great performance by young Madison Wolfe, the movie flows quite nicely. It feels a bit heavy handed with the explaining of the methaphor behind its concept, the delivery of some pieces of exposition to the audience is a little clichéd and convenient, and the ending is a bit drawn out and again overexplanatory, but these may be necessary evils to get the point across to the younger viewers.

While I feel that a very similar topic was handled better and more maturely in J. A. Bayona's sensational _A Monster Calls_, _I Kill Giants_ is still a constantly entertaining and at times moving watch.