Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

callanvass Remember when Christian Slater was actually relevant? Yeah. Me neither and it makes me sad to be honest. I've always thought Slater was an underrated actor, and it's kind of a shame how he's gone down the DTV path like Cuba Gooding Jr. has… He made a cult classic called Heathers (One of my favorites!) and also had some hits, and misses. This is one of those misses. That doesn't mean I'm not gonna give it a fair amount of merit. It never bored me, and I was somewhat entertained by it. It has some decent action in it, and the pacing is always adequate. Slater & Tony Goldwyn are a hoot together, and the gorgeous Mila Jovovich makes an early appearance. My problem was I didn't think Slater's character showed enough aggression at times. He was very entertaining, and showed off that charm as per usual, but dude… your brother died. He had one too many grins in intense situations for my liking. Other than that, I dug Slater's role. Milla Jovovich does fine in one of her early roles as the love interest. She wasn't always Mrs. Resident Evil. Final Thoughts: Slightly above average film that has just enough going for it to warrant a recommendation. You'll forget it pretty quickly, but it's a decent choice if nothing else is available. 6/10

Mike-168 My roommate in college dragged me to this piece of crap, and I'm ashamed to say I actually paid top dollar (maybe $6 in 1992) to see it. It's the first movie I ever walked out on. Or it would have been if my roommate wasn't such a big Christian Slater fan. That and the fact that he had the car. When the IMDb top 250 and it's ugly step-sister, the Bottom 100 first came out a few years ago, this movie was in the latter. It was right up there (or down there, more appropriately) in the top 10 with Manos, The Hands of Fate (which really wasn't that bad if viewed via Mystery Science Theater 3000). This truly was a horrible film. In a year that also produced Reservoir Dogs, Army of Darkness, A Few Good Men and the Unforgiving, this movie should be "The Forgotten" and for good reason. It stuck.

bkoganbing If the rather quirky and unique screen personality of Christian Slater is not your cup of tea, than I'd stay away from Kuffs. Reading the film credits before writing this review I learned that Kuffs was written specifically for Slater. I can't see anyone else this role of George Kuffs, amiable high school dropout who can't get his life together and is sponging off his big brother Bruce Boxleitner.Boxleitner is a patrol specialist, an institution dating from the days of the Forty Niners and unique unto San Francisco. There were not enough police to enforce any semblance of law and order in a town that just mushroomed over night. The city fathers assigned specific areas to people to enforce law and order and Boxleitner has one of those districts.But in his area, the merchants are being harassed and extorted and he's being offered a huge bribe to sell his district to some really nasty people. When he doesn't Boxleitner is killed and Christian Slater inherits his job. Despite some really gaping holes in the plot, the film is really carried along quite nicely by Christian Slater. Others in the cast of note are Milla Jovavich as his pregnant girlfriend, Leon Rippy as the hood who murdered Boxleitner and Tony Goldwyn as the SFPD officer assigned to Slater to keep him from getting killed.Still Kuffs is strictly a Christian Slater show and his fans will absolutely love it.

nhendley-1 Kuffs is a truly awful film that contains one of my all-time favorite show-stopping plot points. Slater's character walks out of a church where his brother is praying. Hears gunshots. Runs back into church to see thug standing over his dead brother, smoking gun in hand. At the police station, Slater is informed that the police can't press charges because-quote-"You didn't actually see the thug shoot your brother. Therefore, he can just claim he saw a gun and picked it up."-unquote. Of course, the police let the thug go...I know Kuffs is supposed to be mindless, but this scene caused my jaw to hit the floor. Evidently, the San Francisco police have never heard of fingerprints, ballistics and testing for powder burns. Much less, questioning a suspect, as to why he was standing in a church with a smoking gun in hand and body on the ground (with bullets in it that no doubt match those fired from the gun).I never knew that modern-day police had to rely solely on eye-witnesses to secure convictions.awful awful awful - avoid like the plague