Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Next of Kin

I was watching "Next of Kin" last week or the week before and it probably has the most ridiculous ending in it. Not that the rest of the movie's much better. Patrick Swayze's a hillbilly that moved up to Chicago and became a cop. Bill Paxton is his brother that also lives in Chicago and does some small time stuff for the mob. Bill gets killed by the main mafia hood (the ever villainous Adam Baldwin - Animal Mother in "Full Metal Jacket"). Swayze's going to solve the crime within the boundaries of the law but his job is complicated by the arrival in the Windy City of his other brother, Liam Neeson, who's out for hillbilly justice. To get to the ending, Liam gets killed and Swayze decides to return to his upbringin' and take those bastards down. Final action scene is set in a cemetery in Chicago with Swayze and his bow and arrow, crossbow, and knife vs. Adam Baldwin and assorted thugs with machine guns.
Just when Swayze's about had it (when he snuck up behind a hood, whistled, and threw a knife at the hood he got shot in the leg) the calvary arrives! Everyone hears these bird calls and Swayze starts doing them. His kin from the hills have come to exact vengeance! Now they proceed to take the mob folk apart using throwing hatchets, bow and arrows, really old shotguns, hound dogs, and, I shit you not, a bus full of snakes. Before long the head mob guy (Adam Baldwin's boss) comes in and stops everything and decides the hillbillies can go free and Adam's gonna die for killing his son, Ben Stiller.
Also it's the first movie I can remember Ben Stiller being in (although I just looked him up on imdb.com and he did a couple before this one) as the head mob guy's son. His outfits are eighties-riffic. His performance is probably better than most of the other crap he's done though.

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