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"Kuffs" is a fun, slick action-comedy that you just appreciate for what it is. It doesn't even make an attempt to be a landmark cop movie like "48 Hours" or "Lethal Weapon," and that's what it makes it work. It's tongue-in-cheek and completely unpretentious. And Christian Slater is the glue that holds this film together. He's one of my favorite actors (who's quite underrated) and it's his credible, charming, charismatic performance that really makes this film tick. Though this is not one of his serious character roles, he seems to be having a lot of fun and really entertains us with his effervescent presence.

The moment you see Slater talking to the camera in the opening scene, you know this is not a movie to be taken seriously. In fact, this can even be classified as a farce. The material doesn't always seem suited for the big screen (more for the small screen in a TV cop show), but big screen or not it's damn entertaining. My only criticisms are a few cartoonish scenes which are just plain silly, one being Tony Goldwyn drinking coffee spiked with narcotics and stomping around like a Looney Tunes character.

Milla Jovovich is beautiful to look at, the humor is often fresh and funny, Slater is very entertaining and there's some exciting action to boot. Sounds good? It does to me.

My score: 7 (out of 10)

Christian Slater plays a man who inherits a police district from his older brother who was gunned down , played by Bruce Boxleitner. apparently San Francisco didn't have enough police,, so there was like citizen patrols broken up into districts is how it was explained in the movie,, so he takes over the district , and trouble follows him everywhere, he has to be trained by his peers because he has no law enforcement experience,, his girlfriend is Milla Jovovich,, really young in this movie. Lots of chases,, funny one liners,, car chases, pretty funny movie,, it's slightly above average,, not Christian's greatest work,, but definitely watchable,, and full of laughs.

Why, Why, and why...I dont understand why so many people bash this film. This film is great and will be always great in my mind and many will agree with me. I like how they bring slaters character, in focus with the camera, you didnt see that too much back then, you see it now a days like on, Malcom in the middle on FOX as an example. This movie is one of my favorites, I am very suprised as why many people didnt care for you it but I cam to a conclusion that they probably had their eyes closed and were deaf. This movie has the most funny one liners, and humor I have ever seen. Like when slater buys the turkey for his brother and then the truck ran it over. Another great part was when he was in the car with Ted (another cop), and he started swearing, and then slater said, "you have an unlimited vocabulary Ted", and then Ted says the F- word back to him. Watch this movie and then thank me later. ***/ out of/ ****. A must see

If the rather quirky and unique screen personality of Christian Slater is not your cup of tea, than I'd stay away from Kuffs. Reading the film credits before writing this review I learned that Kuffs was written specifically for Slater. I can't see anyone else this role of George Kuffs, amiable high school dropout who can't get his life together and is sponging off his big brother Bruce Boxleitner.

Boxleitner is a patrol specialist, an institution dating from the days of the Forty Niners and unique unto San Francisco. There were not enough police to enforce any semblance of law and order in a town that just mushroomed over night. The city fathers assigned specific areas to people to enforce law and order and Boxleitner has one of those districts.

But in his area, the merchants are being harassed and extorted and he's being offered a huge bribe to sell his district to some really nasty people. When he doesn't Boxleitner is killed and Christian Slater inherits his job.

Despite some really gaping holes in the plot, the film is really carried along quite nicely by Christian Slater. Others in the cast of note are Milla Jovavich as his pregnant girlfriend, Leon Rippy as the hood who murdered Boxleitner and Tony Goldwyn as the SFPD officer assigned to Slater to keep him from getting killed.

Still Kuffs is strictly a Christian Slater show and his fans will absolutely love it.

Never saw this movie during its commercial run, but we caught with it on cable recently. "Kuffs", directed by Bruce Evans, was a surprise we didn't expect. In fact, it appears not too many people saw it. The movie is a mixture of action and comedy, which might not sit well with a lot of people, but in fact, it holds our attention.

Something the film shows didn't make sense to us. It seems that in San Francisco certain precincts charge ordinary citizens for its protection, something one has never heard of. In fact, at the center of the film, is how one criminal makes an offer to the young Kuffs, who has inherited the job from his slain brother. That is the only thing we didn't quite get.

In the film, George Kuffs talks directly to the camera, taking the viewer into his confidence, which at the beginning feels strange, but after one gets over that, the film moves smoothly and one can see what the director intended. In the theater these moments are asides, and in the film it serves as George's way to explain what's going on in his mind.

Christian Slater made a good contribution to the film, although it appears he never liked the finished product. Milla Jovovich plays Milla, but she is only seen at the beginning, middle and at the end of the film, which is strange, but that's the way her part was written. Also in the cast, Tony Goldwyn who has some excellent moments and George de la Pena who plays the heavy Sam Jones.

"Kuffs" is more rewarding than other films of this genre.

This film has decent camp value, which is actually helped by the passage of time, because it is now even more evident how ridiculous early-90s fashion was. Hence, the villain with the T-shirt of his own picture (which was actually a fad back then) is even more hilarious. Also, Evans took chances with creative camera shots and sound, and they paid off. This movie simultaneously pays homage to, and makes fun of, movies like Beverly Hills Cop...although Slater is not as funny or personable as Eddie Murphy. Jovovich, on the other hand, came across as very sweet and endearing, and looked very pretty...I wish she got more screen time. Hard to believe that was 20 years ago; she's aged well!

You should focus on the film's irony to really appreciate its value. It doesn't take itself too seriously, and neither should you. However, in the end, there were too many mediocre and unfunny (even in an ironic way) lines and moments to justify recommending that you spend time watching this movie. If you do get dragged into watching it, however, you probably won't hate it. It's just...okay.

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Yes, silly and ridiculous storylines and plot holes abound.

Nonetheless, Slater is charming and it is a fun watch.

Just don't take it too seriously.

My roommate in college dragged me to this piece of crap, and I'm ashamed to say I actually paid top dollar (maybe $6 in 1992) to see it. It's the first movie I ever walked out on. Or it would have been if my roommate wasn't such a big Christian Slater fan. That and the fact that he had the car. When the IMDb top 250 and it's ugly step-sister, the Bottom 100 first came out a few years ago, this movie was in the latter. It was right up there (or down there, more appropriately) in the top 10 with Manos, The Hands of Fate (which really wasn't that bad if viewed via Mystery Science Theater 3000). This truly was a horrible film. In a year that also produced Reservoir Dogs, Army of Darkness, A Few Good Men and the Unforgiving, this movie should be "The Forgotten" and for good reason. It stuck.

This is one of the best action-comedy movies that I have ever seen. The movie is full of hilarious one-liners, and action too. The plot is very original, not like a scheme I have ever seen in a cop film before. Don't watch this movie expecting it to be like Lethal Weapon, this isn't a film to be taken seriously. It's about a young, renegade 20-year old who takes over a special police unit after his brother, who ran the unit, was killed. This is a good action-comedy that will keep you laughing through the whole film. And Milla Jovovich is in it to boot...yeah, I'm a guy, sue me.

The stage curtains open ...

George Kuffs, a high school dropout, is always on the lookout for a get rich opportunity, but is never able to find the big score. This is a fun retread, basically, of "Beverly Hills Cop" starring Christian Slater. They even gave him a letterman jacket and had the theme song performed by Harold Faltermeyer.

When Kuffs' girlfriend, Maya (played by Milla Jovovich), tells him she's pregnant, he decides to take the low road and leave her. He goes to ask his brother, who's a patrol special police officer, for some money to pursue another one of his money making schemes. But when his brother is murdered, Kuffs decides to take over his brother's district and track down his killer instead. He runs into Maya again and begins to rekindle their romance all the while trying to work with his newly assigned partner, who's basically around just to keep him out of trouble.

This was a pleasantly fun, action comedy with decent performances. Slater does well with a role that really has nothing much to offer. The music, as mentioned before, was done by Harold Faltermeyer who was also responsible for the Beverly Hills Cop sound. It's no secret what mold they were trying to fill with the making of this movie.

This is a recommend. The story was well developed, the love interest aspect was good, the comedy genuinely funny and the action engaging. I enjoyed this movie and will certainly watch it again.

I will keep this short and sour. I'd like to get into the sheer horrors that this movie lays out there, but there is a one thousand word maximum, so that would be impossible.

First of all, any effort to make exposition any less painful than it became was clearly abandoned in the early stages of the writing process and replaced with painful "into the camera" sequences. Not only does this device show an astonishing lack of creativity, but it also grates on your nerves after an hour and a half. I'm not saying I expected this film to be some fine accomplishment of cinema. Or even less than a total embarrassment for everyone involved, including the viewer, but to unleash this on an unsuspecting public is just cruel.

On a totally superficial side note... How short is Christian Slater? I never thought him to be a tall man, but unless everyone else in the film is roughly the size if Shaquille O'Neal, Mr. Slater should inquire about membership to the lollipop guild.

Christian Slater is the ne'er-do-well, yet the impressionalbly

hip title character in this decent action comedy. George Kuffs

is a high school drop out who decides to take over his dead

brother's police patrol and to avenge his death. Kuffs stumbles

his way to find to his brother's killers and manages to make a

real image of himself. Slater is fine as Kuffs, whose constant

joking around might have irritated the folks around him, but his

humor really paid off, in this comedy flick that might remind a

few Slater fans of his other avenger movie, "Gleaming the Cube,"

except "Kuffs" is way funnier and more good

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.

Wretchedly directed, dully written, with no characters, just situations, KUFFS is not improved by the addition of grotesquely inappropriate Three Stooges-like comedy (complete with sound effects) and stupidly flamboyant directorial touches. Avoid as though it were deadly poison.

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

Most people only remember her as the girl dancing in her underwear in the beginning.

Milla plays Kuffs' girlfriend, Maya. She is so good in this movie, she is so good in every movie. Through the movie Maya and Kuffs are fighting.

I like this movie because it marked a certain point in Milla's filmography. It was one of the movies where people started noticing her as an actress.

This is a typical revenge action film in which there is really nothing much to look out for. At the beginning it seems to be really going somewhere, but that changes fast. To make this quick this film has: no cool action scenes, no cool or good dialogues, plenty of overdone shooting (Kuffs is way too lucky), no jokes and well it has one nice thing Milla Jovovich. But in this film she is featured not just only seen for a short time but she does not have a great role either. One thing is nice though, you see her hopping around in her underwear.

Do not see this, unless extremely bored (like I was) and you might even be able to sit through it

4 out of 10

This is a perfectly enjoyable light romp. Slater is very charming as the over his head young man that inherits his brothers security business. This is nothing more then enjoyable fluff. Slater fans may have overlooked this cute little movie.

Christian Slater plays a lazy layabout who inherits a police precinct (!) in this unlikely yet likable comedy co-starring Tony Goldwyn. The premise is apparently based on fact with actual ancient San Francisco laws allowing private citizens to set up their own security patrols, however, the filmmakers are (sadly) less interested in this and more keen on fish-out-of-water elements as Slater gets up everyone's back when trying to run the precinct his own way. Further plot complications come with Slater also trying to track down his brother's murderer and if there is one key thing to hold against the film, it is the wild changes in tone as it alters between revenge thriller and bubbly comedy. Never to mind, Slater is in such good form that he carries the film through its rough patches. Taking a note from 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', Slater sporadically breaks the fourth wall, humorously conversing with us. First time director Bruce A. Evans also has a number of other effective touches up his sleeve, like subtitles to indicate Slater's muffled speech when gagged and funny jump cuts as Slater knocks on several doors in a single street. Harold Faltermeyer additionally provides an appropriately upbeat score, even if the echoes of his 'Beverly Hills Cop' composition are too pronounced for their own good. The antagonists are not particularly charismatic or well written, but as alluded to this is Slater's film first and foremost and he runs with the material very well, rendering his somewhat arrogant character sympathetic as he learns the meaning of responsibility in life for the first time.

Kuffs is a young moron(with *attitude*!) who wants a lot of money without doing anything for it. His brother dies, leaving the district to him, and the killer goes free because of red tape. How can he run it? He has no skills or experience. Well, I'm gonna have to get back to you on that, because this doesn't answer that. Does he try to get revenge for his sibling? Of course. How leader-like. Slater's dubious charm is put to the test and fails, and the painful asides exist for little other reason than to deliver exposition. There's plenty of backstory and details, and hardly any of it is on the screen... it's said in dialog. Instead, we get lousy attempts at comedy(usually silly to the point of being cartoonish... it's hardly ever funny, and the running gags literally physically hurt) and... occasional melodrama. The whole thing is scored by Harold Faltermeyer, and yes, he was indeed still doing the Eddie Murphy style 80's tunes. This does the buddy cop thing a little, awkwardly. All the characters are quirky. Who thought this weird mix of things that can work separately would work? All of what I've described can be good if you pursue one. This skips back and forth between them all. The 97 minutes sans credits pass extremely slowly. You never get into it. You're given no reason to like anyone in this(what's with Ted? Did they think that they'd cast the supercop dude from the Police Academy flicks?), except for Jovovich(beautiful and cute as usual... even if she wasn't legal yet), and she's barely in it(and no, my dislike of this isn't on account of that). The setups do not make sense, they're just there for sit-com scenarios that don't pay off. Why can't George aim when it counts? We get some OK action, all shootouts. The tension is lacking and the choreography is lazy. And you do not give someone dual Berettas in a film and not have them use them way more. The clichés are plentiful. One portion has a lot of bizarrely bleeped out F-bombs(using "notes" on a keyboard and other random noises, taking you completely out of the fiction)... it's as if they suddenly realized they should go for PG-13 instead of R, and made the bad decision to censor it like that. It's also half-heartedly photographed. The DVD comes with a meh 2 minute theatrical trailer, and the suggesting of watching Dazed and Confused(maybe that's so, haven't seen it) and Sneakers(...no. Just no. It's so much more entertaining than this that you can barely imagine it) if you like this. I recommend this to girls who want to fawn over Christian. Everyone else, you can do far better. 5/10