Impulse vs The Good Boy
The Good Boy has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 4.9/10 for Impulse). Impulse is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 1h 50m. Impulse is the older of the two (2008 against 2026). Both are drama, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Impulse
The Good Boy| Impulse | The Good Boy | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 4.9/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 2008 | 2026 |
| Length | 1h 41m | 1h 50m |
| Genres | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Charles T. Kanganis | Jan Komasa |
| Main cast | Robert Moloney, Nancy Sivak, Angus Macfadyen, Kathleen Duborg, C. Ernst Harth | Stephen Graham, Anson Boon, Andrea Riseborough, Savannah Steyn, Jessica Johnson |
Synopsis
Impulse
Acting on impulse, Claire Dennison, enjoys a brief fling with a sexy stranger (a dead ringer for her husband), only to realize that the object of her desire is a crazed, manipulative, and tenacious psychopath.
The Good Boy
Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He wakes to find himself imprisoned in the basement of a remote Yorkshire house, inhabited by a very strange family. But what unfolds is not what he could possibly expect.
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