"Kin", the first feature length film by the team of Jonathan and Josh Baker, is a great looking, moderately paced PG-13 Sci-Fi flick that has angered a lot of film critics over one key element.
It features a pretty effectual performance by newcomer Myles Truitt as a troubled 14-year-old named Eli, who was adopted as a tyke by a blue-collar family, including an inflexible father (another reliable turn from Dennis Quaid). Eli likes to spend his down time scooping up scrap metal at abandoned sites, as a means to make some spending cash. During one such excursion, he unknowingly infringes onto the aftermath of a sizable and destructive fight, and discovers bodies of two alien soldiers and a boxlike ray…