Next of Kin stars Patrick Swayze as Truman Gates, a Chicago Police Officer who is asked to investigate the murder of his brother Gerald (Bill Paxton) but complicating things is his other brother Briar (Liam Neeson) who also comes to town determined to find Gerald's killer no matter the cost.
I had some fun watching this film, parts of it are predictable in terms of how it will all play out but I enjoyed myself watching it nonetheless, Swayze was on good form and made for a likeable lead and the film also has a pretty good cast on the whole with Paxton, Andreas Katsulas, Helen Hunt and Ben Stiller both having early roles along with Michael Pollard from Dick Tracy, Ted Levine and Adam Baldwin.
But the show stealer for me here is Neeson who like Hunt and Stiller is in an early role here and it's very easy to see why he's become so popular in recent years as an action star as every time he was kicking bottom I was like "YAAAY" much like I did in the first Taken film, its just a pity most of his action films since have not been that good.
So all in all Next of Kin was good fun if slightly predictable and worth it mainly for Liam Neeson and his Southern Accent, 3 out of 5.
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