Nonureva Really Surprised!

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Maziun "Kuffs" is another movie from the 90's that tries very hard to be as charming and fun. The movie obviously aims at the audience that was raised on the 80's. They even haired Harold Faltermeyer (famous for "Beverly hills cop" soundtrack) to give the 80's feel to "Kuffs". Faltermeyer's music here is unfortunately a shadow of his best work ("Axel F") , just like "Kuffs" is a shadow of a really good action comedy.There are some interesting things here. The idea of districts and private police is refreshing. The fact that movie obviously breaks the fourth wall is also something you don't see too often. Unfortunately , the movie quickly becomes a routine one –of-many-action-comedies. Christian Slater is really likable and pretty much carries the whole movie on his own. I feel sorry that the writers weren't able to give him some really dialogues and witty one liners. Why have Kuffs break the fourth wall if he doesn't have any interesting thing to say ? A waste of good idea.The other characters seems interesting at first , but the movie never gives them enough screen time and the screenplay doesn't give them a lot to do. The story itself is a lame story about evil businessman which was done before and with a better result. The action scenes are forgettable and the movie has only small moments of good humor ( Slater fighting for life in his apartment).For action or comedy junkies only. I give it 2/10.

david-sarkies This is a pretty average action type of movie. It came and went with a whimper and nobody really seemed to notice it. I remember seeing this movie before, and even though I did not get put off by it, it didn't stand out. Now it seems to appear on TV every so often late at night.The creators have used a bit of creative license by creating an enterprise where there is a private police force, Special Patrol, in San-Fransisco helping out the real police force. They are really little more than security guards with a few extra powers.The movie is about a kid named George Kuffs (Christian Slater) who leaves his girlfriend when he learns that she is pregnant. He goes to his brother, who runs one of the Special Patrol districts, for some money, but he is killed by a gangster. In his will George receives the district and goes gunning for the gangster, while being hindered by the police force who really don't want him there. There is also poor old Ted who just seems to always on the wrong side of bad luck.Anyway, this movie is really about how George Kuffs goes from being a free and easy drifter to an adult with responsibilities. The change happens when his brother is killed, because he suddenly finds himself without somebody to lean on. His brother had been trying to give him direction, but it wasn't until he died that his efforts began to come to fruition.Also, even though Kuffs left is girlfriend, he still had his brother. Life was easy because he could have what he wanted and the one stable thing in his life was his brother. Then when he died, Kuffs discovered that the one stable thing in his life was no longer stable, so he attempted to reach out for his girlfriend. Of course she wasn't there for him, and even then he didn't really want to face her after dumping her the way he did.The interesting thing about this movie is that Kuffs is our narrator, but unfortunately it isn't well crafted enough to allow us to look deeply into Kuff's psyche. I guess it is not meant to be as such, because when it comes down to it, George Kuffs is a shallow character in a shallow movie.

FlashCallahan George Kuffs didn't finish high-school, just lost his job and his girlfriend who still is in college is pregnant.Since he can't see how he can support her, he thinks she is better off without him.So he visits his elder brother, Brad, to squeeze him for a loan so he can go to Brazil where there's a gold-rush going on.Unfortunately Brad is killed and George is suddenly the owner of Brad's "patrol special" district....Depending on how much you can tolerate Christian Slater, is how much you will enjoy this film. I went to see this at the movies, and even then when I were 14, there were points i wish i could have broken the fourth wall and slapped him.The mugging at the camera is an okay idea, and many of the demographic that this film is aimed at, would have found it fresh and quite endearing, as an actor was involving them in the movie and the plot.But thats my only gripe because the film is witty and part from the story, it's quite an original movie, with a good script. Slater is good as the titular characters, but like I said before, if you were not aged between the ages 13-18 in 1992, will find this film hard to like.Original parts of the movie are having profanity beeped, so the killer line will be funnier, having the bad guys clothing become a character in itself, and a running gag involving turkey cooking.Kuffs even has hi own 'Axel F' music.It's early nineties cheese and the type of movie you should watch with rose coloured specs, because watching the film nearly twenty years later, George Kuffs isn't the cool guy I once thought he was.Still a funny film though.

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