Kite

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Kite

R

2014

1h 30m

Action

Mystery & Thriller

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With the help of her father's ex-partner (Samuel L. Jackson) and a friend (Callan McAuliffe) from her past, an orphaned teen (India Eisley) mercilessly blasts her way through a dark milieu in pursuit of her parents' killers.

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David Ehrlich

The Dissolve

10/13/2014

1/5

Filled with light parkour, terrible speed-ramping, and frenetically edited combat, Ziman's film could easily be repackaged as The Asylum's ripoff of Lucy.

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

10/10/2014

Ziman struggles mightily to weave hot-girl assassin shtick, trendy exploitation style and future-shock grimness: The default setting seems to be whatever you've seen in a hundred other movies (and heard - the electronic score is pure digital Muzak).

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Ben Kenigsberg

New York Times

10/09/2014

Nasty for nastiness's sake, "Kite" drags to achieve its brief running time; you wonder whether the slow motion is an artistic device or a stalling tactic.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

09/06/2019

1/5

A compromised endeavor before it was even able to get off the ground, Kite never reaches the heights of its word-association based title.

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Brian Orndorf

Blu-ray.com

10/09/2014

D

It's impossible to get all worked up with a formulaic revenge story when the participants don't seem like they want to be here either.

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Erna H

Aug 18

Wow truly an amazing movie. In the beginning I was a bit weary of it but once it was completely over it finished sensationally. Raw emotions- great animation- excellent plot.

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Bruce M

@BruceMc Aug 11

Pretty bad: wealth script, bad performances, inept direction, looks cheaply made. The 0% critics' rating is spot on. The anime is quite good, however.

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Greg H

11/17/2024

See it all before, without any originality and some poor fight choreography and worse accents

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02/14/2021

Kite 14.2.21 3.5/0. Happy Vallie's day ❤ Well, I watched it, just so i could say "I watched it". D.B.

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11/25/2020

one of the worst films, the violent scenes are of terrible quality, he is horrendous and terrible, he is not a good film, he is weak in action and weak also in Thriller

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03/14/2020

awful the longest hour and a half movie I have ever seen. it is just straight up terrible.

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Synopsis

With the help of her father's ex-partner (Samuel L. Jackson) and a friend (Callan McAuliffe) from her past, an orphaned teen (India Eisley) mercilessly blasts her way through a dark milieu in pursuit of her parents' killers.

Director: Ralph Ziman
Producer: Anant Singh, Brian Cox, Moisés Cosío
Screenwriter: Brian Cox
Distributor: Freestyle Releasing
Production Co: Videovision Entertainment
Rating: R (Grisly Images|Drug and Sexual Content|Strong Bloody Violence)
Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 10, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 10, 2014
Runtime: 1h 30m

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