
Truman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.... (Full plot summary below)
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Truman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.
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| Chicago TribuneDenise PerkinsNeither a buddy-buddy action-comedy nor a pyrotechnical showcase of explosions and stunts, NEXT OF KIN--an intelligently made and moodily atmospheric action melodrama--provides solid, satisfying entertainment while demonstrating just how effective a fully realized genre film can be. |
| Chicago TribuneJohanna SteinmetzSwayze is persuasive in his role as an Appalachian boy sufficiently assimilated to big-city life to have married a classical violinist, and Baldwin makes a slick, icy villain. But it is Neeson as Briar Gates who steals this movie. Wily, saturnine, exuding a bitter familiarity with failure, he paints a portrait of a man whose actions are simple but whose feelings are complex. The part offers few lines to play with, but Neeson inhabits the role physically, the twang and the scruffiness never betraying his classical training at Dublin's vaunted Abbey Theatre. It's an enduringly poignant performance. [24 Oct 1989, p.3] |
| The New York TimesJanet MaslinAn appreciably better-than-average revenge drama. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfNext of Kin isn't a dazzling picture, but there's personality about it that eases the blow of idiocy, keeping the adventure of Truman Gates, redneck cop, alive and well. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAfter a fairly good, tense opening, it keeps rolling up one preposterous scene after another. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyIt is a middling gun play that asks and answers the persistent question: Whither testosterone? |
| User ReviewMrs. B Wblood is thicker than water and kin does sticks together....a good action movie. |
| User ReviewBig MGreat family movie, this is how family should stick together! Great movie, this is how family should stick together. |
| User ReviewBrianSome Hillbillies from Ky taking down a Chicage crime family. |
| User Reviewjulie jthis is such a good film even though its 18 years old everyone in it plays such a good part! ben stiller in a serious(ish) role :L |