Kite

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Kite

R

Released Oct 10, 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

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.

Rated: 1/5

Oct 13, 2014

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

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).

Oct 10, 2014

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Ben Kenigsberg

New York Times

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.

Oct 9, 2014

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

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

Rated: 1/5

Sep 6, 2019

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Brian Orndorf

Blu-ray.com

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.

Rated: D

Oct 9, 2014

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Rob Hunter

Film School Rejects

Every exterior is foggy to diminish how far we can see... ie how far the production design could afford to make look like a rundown near future.

Rated: C-

Oct 6, 2014

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Erna H

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.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/18/25

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Bruce M

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

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/11/25

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Greg H

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

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

11/17/24

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Audience Member

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.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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Audience Member

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

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Audience Member

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

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/14/20

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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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