King Kelly
King Kelly
| 30 November 2012 (USA)
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Kelly strips – her best friend Jordan captures the event on her mobile phone. Kelly’s name is well known among the visitors of (in)appropriate online portals. The two teenagers digitally record anything and everything that crosses their paths and upload the results to the internet. But, today is not their day: Kelly’s ex-boyfriend has taken her car containing a package she was not to lose under any circumstances. While searching for it, the two set off on a peculiar journey through a night peppered with drugs, sex, corrupt police officers and other catastrophes – and always with their trusty mobiles in hand.

Reviews
Glucedee

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

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BelSports

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

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Sameer Callahan

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

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Marva-nova

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

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adi_2002

Almost the whole movie is filmed with an hand-held camera witch make it even more dramatic, but this do not save the poor story and the plot. In one part we see the life of an American family and in the other the routine of a rebel teen devoid of reality. For me this can hardly can be named a film because there no essential content in it, just some girls having fun one night and that's the whole deal. Of course sex, drugs, booze and nudity can be missed to see.Normally when I write a review I talk about the story but for this one there is not much to say because there isn't one.If there is film who asks to be avoided then this is the one. I didn't give it the lowest vote because I've seen other films much more worse and boring then this one. It's dull but not in the way to put you asleep.

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evanston_dad

Be prepared to hate King Kelly.The character, that is, not the movie. Though possibly the movie too, depending on your tolerance for movies about spoiled brat kids with an unbearable sense of entitlement and a nonexistent grasp of reality and the consequences that come from behaving badly. You might also hate it if the idea of a movie filmed entirely on iPhones in shaky first-person and extreme close up sounds obnoxious. And if there is anything about "King Kelly" that tested my patience, it was this stylistic conceit that's been done to death and stops making narrative sense 10 minutes into the film. It's just not plausible that characters, even characters as obsessed with themselves as the ones who populate this movie, would be able to continue filming each other in any number of the situations in which they find themselves. Those situations include a car accident, a queasy sexual encounter with a state trooper and a shooting, along with lots of running around trying to track down a lost package of drugs. Other reviewers seem to be responding to "King Kelly" as if it's a zany satire not to be taken too seriously. But if this film was meant to be funny, it's attempts failed miserably, because I found it to be more akin to a horror movie than a screwball comedy. It's not a great film, but it does tap into something very authentic about the current world culture of self-made celebrity, in which people with no talent and nothing really interesting to say or relate can pretend to be the famous person they'd rather be by posting every last thought and action on the Internet for the world to see. It's a deeply depressing trend, one that highlights just how bored people are with their lives and how desperate they are to be seen and heard, no matter for what reasons.Grade: B+

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ambrosia_1

It is difficult to review this movie without spoilers because it is so disjointed.The opening scene is an extreme closeup showing only the audio and text of an online sex chat between teenage Kelly and various older men that are paying for the privilege of watching Kelly "perform" for them. But this scene is deceptive because it's not what the movie is about. It is merely to introduce you to the life of a young girl that is pure "id" (or "superego") caring only about herself.Kelly wants to "go pro" by starting a webcam site of her own, but again, that's not what the movie is about.Early on, we are introduced to Kelly's dysfunctional White Trash family for some insight on just why young Kelly is so troubled.Friends, family, everyone that gets sucked into Kelly's self-involved world ends up worse for it. Following a falling out with her on-again/off-again boyfriend, Kelly finds herself in a world of trouble, turning to one of her online clients for help. Things continue to spiral out of control and you are taken for a ride on one of the worst nights of anyone's life.The acting isn't awful, and despite an amateurish script, is worth watching till the end, but don't go looking for "King Kelly" on Oscar night.

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Utpal Das

Louisa Krause... never heard of her, but what a fine actress... she really can make you hate Kelly. Kelly is the girl you want to be friends with, why? Maybe because she is the girl you would really love to make out with, but you know she wouldn't probably even know you, so you really would like to bitch about her as how much of a bitch she is where actually you would probably give an arm just to be friends. Well, at least that is the picture Louisa Krause completely drew out of the Kelly character. Louisa Krause really got to the skin of the character. Yes, the entire camera is like a POV, but not like those shaky hand held cameras where you kind of feel like pulling your hair out, so I have strong doubts if it was actually done by the iPhone she carried, it was made to look like that,, but I doubt that strongly. But the result was good, you are made to feel you are looking at a POV but it is nicely captured. The movie... well, "typical American" girl trying to be a internet star through her peep show and what follows for roughly 24 hours. The story is barely watchable, just a random 24 hours happening, but Louisa Krause makes it watchable. Like the other reviewer mentioned, it is a weird film, not really a comedy at all as mentioned in IMDb. There are naked scenes, drug use, sex and all, so strictly not watchable with children, difficult to say who the target audience is, looks more like the girls of 18 to 24 who are like the Kelly character. Watch the movie for Louisa Krause, she is really good. You might forget the movie, but you will not forget to hate King Kelly.

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