I have heard for years about KUFFS because it's available on Youtube but since it has 5,8 and mixed reviews (some with low scores and some with high scores) I didn't thought too much about it. However, being a guy with all the standards movie-wise, I finally saw it last January and I didn't loved it, but still found it funny.
George Kuffs (Christian Slater) is a high school dropout that always searches get rich quick opportunities but never has the big chance and in the beginning he leaves his girlfriend Maya (Milla Jovovich) because she is pregnant. Now Kuffs goes to his brother, a police officer asking him some money but when the brother is murdered in a church, George decides to take his place and wants to track down the killer, and in the meanwhile rekindle his romance with Maya and work with Ted Bukovsky (Tony Goldwyn) who's around for keeping him out of trouble.
This isn't a deep movie to begin with but is essentially fun. There were lots of funny moments such as: after Ted drinks some coffee he becomes dizzy and falls to the stairs with cartoon noises as background; when Ted finds George tied to a chair they escape just in time before the laundry store explodes and then the Chief's car goes on fire; the shootout on the roof before the end where Slater is hit by thousands of bullets but survives (movie magic). The performances by all were adequate, nothing to rave about. And the movie has that great feel good nature that is hard to find these days, with the soundtrack that looks like a reworking of the BEVERLY HILLS COP theme.
Not a must see but certainly a time passer for some rainy and cold days (and I saw it near the end of January), and there's nothing wrong with that.
George Kuffs (Christian Slater) is a high school dropout that always searches get rich quick opportunities but never has the big chance and in the beginning he leaves his girlfriend Maya (Milla Jovovich) because she is pregnant. Now Kuffs goes to his brother, a police officer asking him some money but when the brother is murdered in a church, George decides to take his place and wants to track down the killer, and in the meanwhile rekindle his romance with Maya and work with Ted Bukovsky (Tony Goldwyn) who's around for keeping him out of trouble.
This isn't a deep movie to begin with but is essentially fun. There were lots of funny moments such as: after Ted drinks some coffee he becomes dizzy and falls to the stairs with cartoon noises as background; when Ted finds George tied to a chair they escape just in time before the laundry store explodes and then the Chief's car goes on fire; the shootout on the roof before the end where Slater is hit by thousands of bullets but survives (movie magic). The performances by all were adequate, nothing to rave about. And the movie has that great feel good nature that is hard to find these days, with the soundtrack that looks like a reworking of the BEVERLY HILLS COP theme.
Not a must see but certainly a time passer for some rainy and cold days (and I saw it near the end of January), and there's nothing wrong with that.