Waste of time

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Kuffs is a proof that Christian Slater has loads of charisma and it is shocking he never became a bigger star than he was back in the 90s. He plays a lovable yet dorky cop straight out of school. This is a fun little film starring future action heroine Milla Jovovich as his girlfriend who is pregnant. The flow of the film is quite good and it never overstays its welcome. Kuffs is a welcome addition to anyone seeking early 90s unknown or relegated films and should give anyone who watches a rush of nostalgia.

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

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.