2018 Directed by Jonathan Baker, Josh Baker
A young boy finds a powerful otherworldly weapon, which he uses to save his older adoptive brother from a crew of thugs. Before long, the two of them are also pursued by federal agents and mysterious mercenaries aiming to reclaim their asset.
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킨-더 비기닝, El legado, KIN
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I wish I'd seen this when I was 12, because it's gonna be some kid's FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR, or THE WIZARD with a stripper and a lot of murder, whatever. 12 -year-old Matt probably wouldn't have had my pretty major qualms with the climax either.
"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…
The trailer for this movie is not doing it justice. The trailer makes it look like a dumb, cheesy sci-fi flick, and the film is not that at all. Sure, it has sci-fi elements, but what Kin really is is a drama about brotherly love that has elements of crime and sci-fi in there. This is so much better than the abysmal trailer led me to believe.
The Baker brothers obviously had a ton of passion behind this, as did star Myles Truitt, who is great here, and I can't wait to see him in more stuff (and I'm not just sucking up to these guys because I was lucky enough to meet them in person and talk to them…
Kin introduces and sprinkles a lot of interesting sci-fi elements through out the film with it finishing off with so much potential for future movies.
I hope they do another one, everything they introduced has made me wanting more, wanting to see all the ways they could take this.
It doesn't come across as your typical generic teenage movie, it is light on sci-fi and brings the brotherly love to the forefront.
I'd say give it a go.
Involving less sci-fi and more affecting drama than anticipated, this doesn't quite find the right balance between its core elements. Underusing its central futuristic plot device, but solidly delivering as a crime thriller, this still remains a fine, well acted drama spiced up with some thrilling action sequences, captivating cinematography, a James Franco on fire, thought-provoking thematics and a sexy Zoë Kravitz, but in the end is a bit let down by its underdeveloped worldbuilding and by mediocre foreshadowing. Resulting in an entertaining, dramatically pleasing and exciting film that feels like it's only just a part of something far greater.
Solidly crafted for a first feature, but a mixed bag in regards to performances and writing, especially when it comes to narrative structure and plotting; probably should’ve spent more time focusing on the relationship between the two brothers and less on everything else, because everything feels underdeveloped. Didn’t deserve such a brutal reception, though, and it’s nice to see a mainstream studio take a chance on an original, mid-budget science fiction/family drama, even if it didn’t payoff in the end.
A complete mess but at least it's entertaining and certainly tries to do something different. "Kin" works far better as a family drama than any of the other genres it tries to balance. I really liked all the performances and really bought the chemistry between Reynor and Truitt. But the crime elements and especially the Sci-Fi elements don't work nearly as well as they should which leads to a climax that annoyed me more than I thought it would. This is a fine and watchable movie that could've been something much better if they had found a proper balance between tones.
If you were to ask me what my biggest cinematic surprise this year would be, I would emphatically proclaim KIN to the be the answer. Based on the trailer, this looked like a run of the mill dysfunctional family drama with a sexy alien gun thrown in for good measure. That trailer is misleading. Context people.
KIN has some nice character beats throughout and doesn't really focus on "the gun". By the time the alien weapon is fired, we care about what is going on and how we got to that point because we are invested in the brothers and want them to live.
It's got its issues, but the family dynamic and the out of left field surprise at the end more than make KIN worth your time.
Call it the "Unbreakable" gambit, where a movie introduces a whole other genre and/or vast implications at the last minute like a tease, because there's no time to follow up on any of it. In recent times I've seen it happen in the monster movie "Storage 24" and that 2014 William Eubank "The Signal", but these aren't the only cases. And maybe it's only for mic drop effect, not to set up sequels (that's definitely what it should've been for "Unbreakable"), but in all of these examples including "Kin" it comes off as lousy prioritizing. I sat through these dull, small-minded adventures that only hinted at grander ones around a corner I'll never turn? Way to diminish your own work,…
An uneven mix of genres. "Kin" works best when it focuses on its central character and is at it's worst when it has anything to do with the science fiction aspect due to how underutilized it is until the final act. Reynor is a talent to watch out for and the rest of the cast do pretty good too especially Franco but this movie just was so confused on what it wanted to be and didn't balance its tones well at all.
