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Kuffs
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Kuffs is an elaborately mounted A movie which falls disastrously flat from the word go. Like some ungodly televisual spawn of Parker Lewis Can't Lose crossed with 21 Jumpstreet, this high-concept number stars Christian Slater as a cool, twenty-one year old dude rapping into the camera about his pathetic love life and his thrilling new job as a "Patrol Special" law enforcer on the mean streets of San Francisco. It's hard to like Slater's character – a monstrous, adolescent male ego in the tradition of Ferris Bueller – and even harder to like the designer-styled, unreal world into which he is placed. The team of Bruce Evans (director-writer) and Raynold Gideon (producer-writer) have previously initiated some fine films, including Starman (1984) and Made in Heaven (1987). But this is a thin, painfully postmodern hotchpotch of jazzy angles, hip music (by Harold Faltermeyer) and contrived atmospherics. MORE Evans/Gideon: Jungle 2 Jungle © Adrian Martin September 1993 |
