Mike-168 My roommate in college dragged me to this piece of crap, and I'm ashamed to say I actually paid top dollar (maybe $6 in 1992) to see it. It's the first movie I ever walked out on. Or it would have been if my roommate wasn't such a big Christian Slater fan. That and the fact that he had the car. When the IMDb top 250 and it's ugly step-sister, the Bottom 100 first came out a few years ago, this movie was in the latter. It was right up there (or down there, more appropriately) in the top 10 with Manos, The Hands of Fate (which really wasn't that bad if viewed via Mystery Science Theater 3000). This truly was a horrible film. In a year that also produced Reservoir Dogs, Army of Darkness, A Few Good Men and the Unforgiving, this movie should be "The Forgotten" and for good reason. It stuck.

bkoganbing 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.

wrlang Kuffs is (not a serious film) about immaturity v evil greed. George Kuffs (Slater) is a 21 year old highschool dropout moving between jobs and superficial relationships until he simultaneously finds out his girl Maya (Jovovich) is pregnant and his civilian cop brother Brad (Boxleitner) is killed by a local bad guy Kane (Rippy). George was looking for a way to escape the responsibilities of it all until he learns that Brad left George the patrol district he owns and operates. Because everyone views George as the epitome of loserdom, George takes over the patrol district much to the chagrin of everyone else. George matures quickly, finding skills critical to the storyline that he never knew he had. Then applies his own style of problem solving to avoid losing his patrol district, while staying alive to find his brother's killer, and also do right by Maya. The pace and action are OK, it is shot well, the dialog and choreography is fine but cutesy. Don't skip over the explanation of the patrol district, otherwise you will wonder what the heck is going on.

nhendley-1 Kuffs is a truly awful film that contains one of my all-time favorite show-stopping plot points. Slater's character walks out of a church where his brother is praying. Hears gunshots. Runs back into church to see thug standing over his dead brother, smoking gun in hand. At the police station, Slater is informed that the police can't press charges because-quote-"You didn't actually see the thug shoot your brother. Therefore, he can just claim he saw a gun and picked it up."-unquote. Of course, the police let the thug go...I know Kuffs is supposed to be mindless, but this scene caused my jaw to hit the floor. Evidently, the San Francisco police have never heard of fingerprints, ballistics and testing for powder burns. Much less, questioning a suspect, as to why he was standing in a church with a smoking gun in hand and body on the ground (with bullets in it that no doubt match those fired from the gun).I never knew that modern-day police had to rely solely on eye-witnesses to secure convictions.awful awful awful - avoid like the plague