Kuffs

Directed by Bruce A. Evans, Kuffs follows Christian Slater’s George Kuffs as he attempts to track down the man (Leon Rippy’s Kane) responsible for his cop brother’s murder and eventually winds up becoming a police officer himself. Filmmaker Evans, working from a script written with Raynold Gideon, delivers a lighthearted and mostly entertaining caper that benefits substantially from Slater’s endlessly charismatic efforts, and it’s clear, certainly, that Slater’s top-tier performance is elevated by his genuine chemistry with such talented costars as Milla Jovovich, Troy Evans, and Tony Goldwyn – with the latter’s frequently hilarious turn as Kuffs’ less-than-enthusiastic partner certainly standing as a continuing highlight within the proceedings. (There is, for example, a fantastic, entertaining stretch wherein Kuffs drugs Goldwyn’s Ted Bukovsky to predominantly laugh-out-loud-funny effect.) And although the movie does suffer from a small handful of lulls, Kuffs, buoyed by an ongoing emphasis on larger-than-life action sequences, eventually progresses into a completely satisfying final third that cements its place as an agreeable, better-than-anticipated comedy.

*** out of ****

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