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Story of Jimmy Solinski who is a brilliant young fellow has quite recently discharged from the correctional facility. By getting out, he winds up engaged with a perilous circumstance that makes him and his brother, Eli, are pursued by a wrathful criminal, the feds and a pack of extraordinary fighters. They wind up running with a puzzling weapon which may change the destiny of their entire lives.
Advertised as an adolescent SciFi adventure where a 'tween finds an intergalactic gun and all his problems are solved, the film is much more than that. And also much less.
Given the film's title, and that the filmmakers are themselves twins, you would expect the brother relationship at the heart of the movie to be something more than it is.
In trying to be so much more than what Bag Man was, Kin feels strained past its limits and when you try to appreciate the film for what it is and what it's trying to do, you can't help but notice its weaknesses.
The idea of superior firepower and how it changes one's place in the world is what this movie seems to be about, yet it never actually addresses it... It's as if we're just supposed to think the ray-gun is cool, and wait for Eli to use it.
The different styles sit uneasily together, and coherence isn't helped by a script that slows the pacing right down by putting long talky scenes where the action should be.
Enough parts of it worked just okay enough that I sort of dug what transpired, at least in the various individual moments. (Full Content Review for Parents - Violence, Profanity, etc. - also Available)
A disjointed and at times off-putting mess that veers wildly and unconvincingly between a road movie, a family drama, a violent crime film and an offbeat sci-fi thriller.
Kin proves to not be one thing or the other, defying any clear genre or demographic boundaries. It's not a blockbuster or a heroic young adult tale, just a devastatingly sad and terrible story...