Movie Review: WORLDBREAKER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN / Staff Writer

Posted: January 30th, 2026 / 09:39 PM

WORLDBREAKER movie poster | ©2026 Aura Entertainment

Rating: R
Stars: Luke Evans, Billie Boullet, Milla Jovovich, Mila Harris, Kevin Glynn, Meadow Williams
Writer: Joshua Rollins
Director: Brad Anderson
Distributor: Aura Entertainment
Release Date: January 30, 2026

In the film WORLDBREAKER, the title term refers generally to anything that causes a species (going back to the dinosaurs) or civilization to collapse. As we’re told in voiceover, the world has broken many times and the breakers are always different.

Images of bulletin boards with news articles on evolution and climate devastation cut to a young teen, Willa (Billie Boullet), standing by a small boat on a rocky shore, drawing a sword.

We soon learn that the voice we’ve been hearing belongs to Willa’s Dad (Luke Evans), who has been home-schooling his daughter for most of her life.

Willa’s Mom (Milla Jovovich) is only intermittently home with the family. It’s not that Mom isn’t devoted to her husband and daughter, but she’s a commander in the war of humans vs. huge hostile creatures, called Breakers since they’re doing the world-breaking this time around, that have emerged from rifts in the Earth.

It is believed that the Breakers were set loose by the levels of pollution humankind had dumped into the planet. When they don’t kill their victims outright, a bite from a Breaker can cause a normal human to become a homicidal hybrid. This happens more frequently with men and boys than with women and girls, owing to human brain chemistry.

Willa and Dad wind up on an otherwise uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland. Dad drills Willa in how to fight, run and survive, while also providing history lessons and stories about the fabled hero Kodiak.

We get scattered clashes with both Breakers and hybrids, but much of WORLDBREAKER lives in the interactions between Willa and her Dad. The screenplay by Joshua Rollins wants to emphasize the role myth and storytelling play in maintaining humanity during troubling times, and director Brad Anderson gives Willa’s island education the look of a folktale.

Boullet and Evans share warmth, chemistry and enthusiasm, making them credible as close family members. However, even their performances can’t quite bridge the gap between what we’re being told and what we feel.

This is largely because so much time is spent with the Kodiak tales. While Willa finds them mesmerizing and inspiring, they are nothing new to us. Using them as an engine to fuel Willa’s development is psychologically reasonable, but dramatically we’re waiting for something to happen.

Then, when something does happen, we question why one character keeps a big secret. It ups the jeopardy but makes no sense in terms of behavior.

There are some worthy monsters and monster clashes here, but WORLDBREAKER is mostly for those in the mood for parent/child bonding, with a little world-breaking horror in the background.

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