Kill Kane (2016) User Reviews

Worst Vinnie flick since the last one

[mysteryman7162 · 1/10 · 18 January 2016]

In a derivative story of suburban violence| family man Ray Brookes(AKA The voice of Mr. Ben) seeks revenge when his wife and children are murdered by infamous gangsters (Brian Kant and Floella Benjamin). Unable to place his order for chips with curry sauce he is left with no faith in the justice system and with nothing left to lose except 74 minutes of low quality 'entertainment' he turns vigilante, crazy ape bonkers, bat-sh*t but not the other cheek and stalks the streets like some kind of cockney leopard on the hunt for those who robbed him of a future as a football pundit.

Watch this movie or have your colon cleansed, the choice is yours.

Poor Vinne what have you got yourself into?

[jaymcr · 1/10 · 26 January 2016]

I could sum up this story in a few short sentences.

Guy witnesses a gang member being shot so gang go after him and kill his wife and kids and he goes after them one by one until he gets to the big boss. The End.

So many plot holes in this its unreal. How did he just happen to get the names and locations of everyone involved and turn up at their front door, car and club and just kill them?

Was it intentional to make the big boss out to be a derivative of a cross between Tony Blair and David Cameron?

Seriously I should've checked the IMDb reviews before subjecting myself to this drivel but was looking more for a solid story with Vinnie at the head of it all with some originality.

Gone are the days of Lock Stock and Midnight Meat Train. Welcome to the world of spend a budget because its there and to hell with the result.

Not even worth wasting 5 minuets of your time. ...

[cj_borl · 1/10 · 18 January 2016]

Watched this at a friends house and it was cardboard acting at its worse. Should be called "Vinnie Jones Killed This Movie"

Not even worth reviewing due to the fact the movie lacked any substance and weak acting abilities to keep me focused.

The story was the same old done over time and time again in many other films and Jones with his typical hard man act that has been done to death.. The small amount of cast speaks volumes and that this was done on a tight budget so therefore justified going straight to DVD..

I found myself drifting off in the first 30 minuets from the start but managed to suffer it until the end. Unless you are a fan of Vinnie Jones films then i would spend your money on a far better movie than Kill Kane.

Verdict: Do not bother watching.

Don't Bother... Seriously

[SkylineFever · 1/10 · 24 January 2016]

This is a seriously bad film... I really don'y know where to begin whether its the entire premise, the gaping holes in the story, the script, the acting, the effects... well, the everything.

I don't often review but after losing my investment of some 74 minutes in this woeful film I felt the need to warn others.

But first let let me lay down my credentials... I don't act, direct, produce or have any other pre-release involvement in the film industry but I do watch, and this.... is simply not worth watching.

I normally enjoy Vinnie Jones in his stereotypical role of ultra violent vigilante or similar and it was his name that attracted me to the film... but this was hard to stomach. The acting was awful from start to finish and the story wafer thin and generic.

Anyone who gives this more than a 2 has a financial interest in the film.

There are better things to do with your 74 minutes.

Poor Old Vinnie

[doorsscorpywag · 1/10 · 19 January 2016]

I actually like Vinnie. He has done a couple of really good acting jobs. His Brit flicks and I enjoyed him in Midnight Meat Train. Fair enough he never spoke but he was good. He is not as bad as people make out but sadly just gets trash like this nowadays to show what he can do.

A film so bad nobody could even be bothered to write a fake review.

I seem to recall this was done once before and rather well at that. Sadly Vinnie is no Bronson and sadly this has no script either.

Daft as I may sound I think Vinnie could do well if given a decent role in a film that had a decent story and some decent actors in it.

He will never trouble Broadway but deserves better than the garbage he is given.

One day he might well surprise everybody. Sadly this is not his breakthrough role.

So bad we may have to invent a whole new language to articulate our thoughts about such rubbish.

Justice killed

[TheLittleSongbird · 1/10 · 18 September 2018]

Did not want to dislike 'Kill Kane'. It was again not a bad, if not new, premise and Vinnie Jones has given dependable performances in the past. It had potential to work, and would have done with effort being obvious and like those in front of and behind the camera had their hearts in it.

Neither of which can be seen with 'Kill Kane', something that is really quite unforgivable. Have seen worse films, recently and ever, but that doesn't stop 'Kill Kane' from being a very poor film with no redeeming traits and a lot of things done absolutely terribly. There is not much to add to what has been said very well already and the review is at the risk of repeating what has been said. Just for the record, 'Kill Kane' was watched with an open mind and not without the intent or want to dislike, let alone hate, the film, quite the contrary.

All the acting ranges from insipid to terrible, nobody looks engaged or at ease. Jones phones in and lacks vigour and intensity for a role needing both for it to work. In all fairness the characters are clichéd and are never engaging or easy to get behind, didn't care or endear to any of them.

The chemistry is static, likewise with the barely existent direction. The script is from start to finish is a cringe, weep and toe curl-fest with lots of overblown soap-opera melodrama and no depth whatsoever.

Furthermore, the story has no tension or suspense whatsoever, is very lifelessly paced and executes a not particularly new if intriguing idea with no imagination or originality. Basically non-stop indifferent dullness and predictability that takes itself far too seriously to be fun. 'Kill Kane' has a very dreary, one-note and less than slick visual style with well below average visuals and no attempt at authenticity. The sound is monotonous and over obvious, while the lighting lacks atmosphere and consistently and the photography lacks focus and often static in the more dramatic scenes.

In conclusion, awful with a noticeable lack of effort. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Revenge has never been so painful to watch

[quincytheodore · 2/10 · 20 January 2016]

This is a lethal dose of horrendous acting, crippling pace and horrible script bundled into one. Usually B-movies, the type where Vinnie Jones dabbles in for these recent years, can at least be appreciated for their silly antics or embellished action. However, "Kill Kane" can barely produce basic elements of actual movie, which makes it terribly cheap and utterly boring to witness.

Using vengeance theme, Vinnie Jones is on the warpath to avenge his family. It's all presented in two interweaving timelines, one where he is on a rampage, and the other one where the deed happens, as though regular narrative is not complex enough for the refined production. There's no way to sugarcoat this, the acting is so poor, none of the characters even remotely seem believable.

Everyone acts in a heinous outlandish soap opera manner, while also manage to seemingly reading from a teleprompter as they gaze randomly. It often shows ridiculous scenes of people shouting in profanity, yelling useless banter or just Vinnie Jones doing solemn musing. As a lead, he does try, but the performance is rigid at best. This doesn't create any semblance of connection, and the insipid script gives no aid whatsoever.

Action is practically a couple of people skulking around in random alley or room, firing toy weapon and thus trying to pass Betadine spill as gunshot wound. It has no structure beyond this come and shoot. The setting isn't portrayed well either, lighting would pan inconsistently or the shot would linger needlessly on weird expression. Furthermore, it tries to create emotional tension on the supposed important dramatic scene, yet the acting ruins even this.

The movie will kill only good mood one has when watching it. This one should just be avoided like real life bullet.

Really rather well done

[drtjmorris · 10/10 · 23 January 2016]

I cannot agree with those that have gone before! Remember that, as it says in the trivia, this was shot in only 9 days, and this must be taken into account when judging a low-budget movie like this. There are bits that might have been better handled differently, but it is an action movie that hits the right spot. The acting is convincing and of a high standard, the stress to the family of their impending destruction being very real in those scenes. It is great to see the overdue return of Nicole Faraday to the screen! So, in summary

the ingredients are right

the acting is top rate

the suspense is gripping

What's not to like? It will be a great pleasure to see further productions from this team, who clearly show great promise.

VIEWS ON FILM review of Kill Kane

[burlesonjesse5 · 6/10 · 9 July 2016]

What I learned from 2016's Kill Kane, is that Vinnie Jones can carry a movie (even if it is only seventy-four minutes long). He shows a decent amount of screen presence here and it's refreshing to see that he's not featured in a supporting role or a role in which he has the most minimal of dialogue. Vinnie scowls, ponders, appears defensive, and exterminates people. Oh and in certain bits of light, he actually looks like 1980's Sean Connery (I'm not kidding).

Anyway, Jones plays PE teacher Ray Brookes. After witnessing a murder behind a trailer home, he is immediately ID'd by gangsters who break into his house and off his wife and two kids. Ray himself is left for dead but survives, waking up from a three month coma with revenge on his mind. As Kill Kane's running time flies by, Ray then starts to take the law into his own hands. Firearms, lying to police, stealthiness, reprisal, vanishing from the scene of the crime. If this all sounds familiar, it should. "Kane" is straight from the annals of 2014's John Wick, John Singleton's Four Brothers, Kill Bill, and Steven Seagal's Hard to Kill. When Vin's Brookes shoots dead one of the murderers who took his family away from him, he utters the words, "talk is cheap". A funny jab at the majority of Vinnie's acting career if you ask me.

So OK, "Kane" is not wholly original, has few locations, feels low budgeted, has a small cast, and has almost no backstory when it comes to the characters (how the heck did Mr. Brookes achieve such a special set of skills?). No matter. First time director Adam Stephen Kelly gives the proceedings the veritable Michael Mann treatment. Not withstanding his overuse of darkly lighted and effectively quick-minded flashbacks, Kelly somehow provides the film with a raw sense of flair and verve. This keeps you distracted from its shortcomings. Add Vinnie's likable performance, some thick British accents, and a stirring musical soundtrack by Bobby Cole (he scored Valley of the Witch) and you've got a stylish, rogue thriller that's nasty in its disposition and stock on plot. Bottom line: Kill Kane isn't "killer" great but as a rental, this "Kane" is at least able. Of note: Don't be distracted by the flick's shootout ending which looks like a laughably skewed, Mexican standoff. Rating: 2 and a half stars.

Don't Bother

[duvernetphotography · 1/10 · 19 January 2016]

Vinnie hits a new low, very low. I couldn't even get through twenty minutes of it before giving up. Charles Bronson's version of the same concept was so much better. There is no plot because the suspense required to carry it is given away in the summary and there is little surprise at any point in this movie. Vinnie is your basic brute in everything I've ever seen him and he follows a typical path of blood and punishment. The only difference here is that the script is so bad and the scenes so disjointed in an effort to be dramatic that it becomes worse than comical or even satirical. It would have been a better movie to go all out on the satire of the genre. There are no redeeming features to this movie. Even the English accents can't hide how bad it is. Trouble is, the actors are doing their best in an otherwise copy cat movie with a generic script. They don't have much to work with. Vinnie should have run as far as he could from this "movie". He is capable of something better.

Not that great! 2/10

[leonblackwood · 2/10 · 16 April 2016]

Review: This is another one of those cheap, "straight to DVD" movies from Vinnie Jones, which will be quickly forgotten. He plays a happily married, family man who witnesses a murder, which is committed by a bunch of gangsters, in the middle of nowhere. The gangsters then set out to make sure there wasn't any witnesses to the crime, and they brutally murder Ray Brookes (Vinnie Jones), family, right in front of him. The leader of the gang, Kane Keegan (Sean Cronin), thinks that he has killed Ray but he manages to survive, and he sets out to get revenge. That is the basic gist of the storyline! Vinnie Jones is playing his usual "tough nut" type of role, with a cockney accent, and the rest of the cast, put in pretty poor performances. I can totally understand why Vinnie Jones went on a killing spree but what shocked me was that the gangsters that he was killing, didn't seem to care that he survived and had a gun pointed to there heads. Anyway, I personally didn't think that it was that great and it just goes down as another badly made movie, by Vinnie Jones. Maybe he should go back to playing football! Disappointing!

Round-Up: It's obvious that Vinnie Jones, 51, only stars in these terrible movies to pay bills, because he honestly can't think that these low budget movies are going to do his career any good. His first taste of stardom in big movies like X-Men: The Last Stand, Swordfish, Snatch, Lock Stock, Gone in 60 Seconds etc, really does seem long ago now, and his acting skills haven't really progressed since he became an household name, after his great performance in Lock Stock in 1998. Anyway, it might do him some good if he changes his agent because these movies are going from bad to worse. This is the first major release from Adam Stephen Kelly, who also wrote this movie, which doesn't say a lot about his script writing skills. For his first major project, it's passable but the sketchy script really wasn't that great.

I recommend this movie to people who are into their crime/thrillers starring Vinnie Jones, Nicole Faraday, Sebastian Street, Sean Cronin and Dan Richardson. 2/10

I don't want your protection

[nogodnomasters · 2/10 · 4 December 2022]

Ray Brookes (Vinnie Jones) wakes up after being in an induced coma for 3 months. Don't worry, it is a movie coma, so his muscle strength and co-ordination are the same. He is a PE instructor who was left for dead after gangsters killed his family. Ray, like most men get lost driving. While retrieving a map out of the boot, he wanders around until he witnesses a murder. He is then visited by Kane (Sean Cronin) and his goons. And rather than just give the guy straight forward answers him and his family play around until they are all shot. For some reason Ray got a chest just rather than a bullet to the head. Ray doesn't trust police protection fearing he would be dead before any testimony and decides to go vigilante on the group, getting vengeance one gangster at a time.

We have seen these type of vigilante films before. They really need something different, a hook for the audience. This one didn't have it. What made it worse was the suspense soundtrack sounded like a cat walking slowly on a piano.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

Mindless

[Leofwine_draca · 2/10 · 22 November 2020]

KILL KANE has the makings of a decent revenge flick, at least on the page, but in reality it turns out to be a real dog of a movie, far too low budget to succeed as anything at all. A tired Vinnie Jones sleepwalks through the role of a father and family man who loses his loved ones in a shocking home invasion and thereafter goes on a rampage of revenge, taking down druggies and gang members along the way. It's extraordinarily cheap and slapdash, with laughable staging throughout and virtually no kind of action, suspense or momentum at any point; just mindlessness from beginning to end.

Excellent low budget thriller

[extraterrestrial87 · 10/10 · 23 January 2016]

Nice to see most of the user reviews for this title have been posted by people in countries where the film isn't even out yet. Way to go supporting independent film, not.

This is an exceptionally well made film considering the obviously low budget and the fact that it was filmed in just 9 days (according to the trivia section at least). That's as indie as indie gets and it's pretty shocking that the guys behind this managed to make a such an ambitious movie in such a short time frame, especially one that's both coherent and looks more expensive than I'm sure you'd assume from whatever the budget was.

Some very good performances from a cast i'm mostly unfamiliar with. Vinnie Jones is good at doing what he does best, being a hard looking SOB who takes no prisoners. It's refreshing to see him in a good guy role - especially in a lead too for once, but sometimes he's a bit unconvincing when showing his softer side.

I'm still mightily impressed how these guys shot a full length movie in less than two weeks but the proof is in the pudding. An at times gripping and suspenseful film with some great lines and well structured action scenes.

Not As Awful As Most Are Saying

[zardoz-13 · 6/10 · 9 March 2016]

Adam Stephen Kelly made his directorial debut with "Kill Kane," a brutal British crime thriller about revenge. Andrew Jones, Christian Sellers, and Adam Stephen Kelly penned the hardboiled screenplay that synthesizes elements of the Charles Bronson movie "Death Wish" and the Steven Seagal movie "Hard to Kill." Clocking in at 74-minutes, this grim bit of business doesn't beat about the bush.

Our resilient hero gets lost while driving around on a family outing and pulls over to fish a map out of the trunk of his car. He witnesses--through a hole in a fence--the execution slaying of a low-life criminal, Tommy (Mitchell Fisher), in a backlot. Poor Tommy—it seems—suffered from loose lips, talking too much about his own gang. Before Noonan (Dan Richardson of "Retribution") pulls the trigger on a kneeling Tommy, he comments "But sometimes a potter has got to know that the clay he's working with is just no good." Unfortunately, the villains spotted the van that our father figure, a gym teacher Ray Brookes (Vinnie Jones of "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels") who has been teaching for fifteen years. Miraculously, Ray survived a fatal gunshot wound and spent three months in a coma. This is where "Kill Kane" opens as Ray recovers in the high dependency unit of a local hospital. Of course, Ray refuses to cooperate with the authorities because he believes that they cannot offer him adequate protection from the gangsters. British Detective Inspector Shelby (Sebastian Street of "Vehemence") questions Ray about the criminals, but Ray keeps his mouth shut. After he recovers from his coma, Ray has to contend with Shelby again, who wants him to testify against the criminal. Ray turns him down. Ray hunts down Billy Malone (newcomer Benjamin Way) and stabs him to death. Afterward, he catches up with the dastard, Conner O'Brien (Conor Boru of "Spiked"), who capped his daughter Victoria Brookes (Sarah Alexandra Marks of "Illegal Activity") at point blank range in the head. Ray tangles with the ringleader of the ruffians, Kill Keegan (creepy looking Sean Cronin of "The World Is Not Enough"), but Shelby intervenes in their standoff showdown. He tries to convince Ray to stand down, but our protagonist guns Kane down while Shelby watches. Shelby advises Kane to clear out of town. Predictably, Kane ignores Shelby and shows up the next day at Frank Noonan's bar where he confronts Noonan (Dan Richardson of "Retribution") and blows his head off.

Mind you, "Kill Kane" is not a lighthearted lark. Murderers with no qualms about killing shoot harmless innocents at close range and appear to enjoy their acts of mayhem. Adam Stephen Kelly never lets the action loiter. Jones is his usual brawny self, but he elicits sympathy as the father left without a family. Meantime, Cronin makes a terrific villain. Shelby is good as a sympathetic cop who lets our hero off the hook. Reminiscent of the Michael Caine gangster movie "Get Carter," except Vinnie survives the fracas. This no-nonsense crime thriller isn't as awful as some of the user critics claim. Although he covers familiar ground, director Adam Stephen Kelly doesn't bore us with a lot of meaningless details. He goes for the gut, and "Kill Kane" never wears out its welcome.

Amazing piece of British Film

[DarrenCaged · 8/10 · 24 January 2016]

So we have all seen the look I'm in a gang, I'm hard I've got a gun bang bang roll credits type movies, the shelves are full of them this is what makes it oh so different.

Kill Kane starting out shows Vinnie not as the usual Hard Nut but as a family man going about his daily life, then they see something that changes the course of there lives which forces Vinnie's hand.

Very well laid out and bring together a multitude of nightmare scenarios being in the wrong place, firm after you, family being held hostage and the rest I wont say you will just have to watch but to all the other reviews seriously unfair.

The Direction was excellent and the whole thing was excellent

Very good performance and a dedicated team!

[lienka-04523 · 9/10 · 25 January 2016]

Let's not forget, this is a feature film with some top actors shot on nearly zero budget in 9 days. Given all this I think the film deserves some credit and respect

The script could have been better but there was good suspense and the performances, especially from Sean Cronin as the tittle role "Kane" was very strong and sharp. And Vinnie Jones plays a good guy in this one - surprised by that one!

Hats of to them, these guys are troopers - they did a great job for passion not the money, something that needs to be valued.

Looking forward to seeing more films from these people!

Some comments are difficult to comprehend

[imap-05232 · 9/10 · 25 December 2021]

What did all these very negative critics expect? Shakespeare or a French Film-Noir-Movie?

This is a cold and straight revenge movie, easily to find out before bothering watching.

Within the genre it is superb. Without squiggle, psycho-crap or political message, but within the best tradition of hard-boiled English gangster movies.

If you like these kind of movies, watch it.