Product: Kids (1995)
Rating: 2.0
Not all it's cracked up to be.
Although many would try to press upon you the idea that this is a revelation of a film, many films that even go as far as silent era have depicted children who delve into such darkness. Taxi Driver being the movie obvious.Although the acting is very realistic for one dimentional characters, the story moves at a very slow pace. The movie is poorly written and there seems to be no real structure. Stuff just seems to happen, there's no real development or progression of a theme. It's just 91 minutes of doing random "shocking" activities. The violence is quite tame, and besides the fact that these characters are children, there's nothing very disturbing about their acts in that they have all been preformed hundreds of times on the screen. Robocop 2 had a much more interesting dynamic child character who was a major player in the underground world. If you had tagged on only a couple of years to the characters, this would be considered a waste of time. A good film shouldn't rely on a single detail to make a point.If you're oblivious to the real world this film may come as a shock, but for most people it's pretty much common knowledge that under age kids will perform illegal acts. I found nothing shocking or surprising in the film. I think the only good feature of the film was that it didn't try to shove some message down your throat, but it was clearly trying to make a statement. I just think they weren't quite clever enough to interweave it with an interesting story.