22nd November, 2018.
OK … Once again it looks like Blogger is playing silly buggers: and giving me gyp uploading pictures on to a post.
Trust me: you’re not sitting where I am.
It’s …
Rather frustrating when you earlier I didn’t have this issue with earlier versions of both Safari, and Blogger.
Hey …
Ho!
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At ANY rate … ?
I’ve … had a lot of time on my hands.
As you ma or may not know, I’m between jobs at the moment.
So spent a lot of my time worrying about money, starving, thinking about how to keep warm …
Oh …
And watching a film or two.
Tonight … ?
Tonight I’ve managed to catch the relatively recent released that is …
Kin …
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Kin opens by showing us a gunfight in a derelict part of Detroit …
Then — some time later — introduces us to Elijah (Myles Truitt): a 14 year old teenager, who lives with his stern adoptive father, Hal (Dennis Quaid) …
And, as the family’s not exactly rich?
Scavenging for copper wiring in various abandoned buildings.
Discovering — in one — the abandoned bodies who’d been fighting in the opening scenes.
And discovering some very powerful left over weaponry.
It’s only when Hal’s biological son, Jimmy (Jack Raynor) comes home from prison, that Elijah realises he may have to use the gun he’s found.
Some of Jimmy’s gangster friends have found him …
Some gangsters …
And some of the gun’s original owners.
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Now …
Good … ?
Let’s pencil that in as a tentative yes, shall we?
Kin isn’t necessarily original, to be frank.
In Kin’s basic premise — a pair of fugitives fleeing dangerous pursuers — I was seeing traces of The Blues Brothers: only with less comedy and songs.
And was feeling traces — traces, mind — of The Terminator: after all, some of those pursuers were apparent hi-tech, futuristic ones.
Personally?
I don’t think that makes Kin a bad movie.
It’s entertaining, nicely written, well acted
Kin just isn’t necessarily original …
Kin.
★★☆☆
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