NEXT OF KIN (DVD)

Good movie, only complaint I have which seller had no control of . Is the movie was late supposed to be here next day, but for some reason it got delivered the day after the original equated deliver day, not the sellers fault.

A cop from the back woods is living in Chicago. His brother is living with him as a delivery driver. He gets robbed by local mobsters and he ends up dead. He takes the body back home to be taken care of. Well mountain code is an eye for an eye. He says the law will handle it but they want it handled their way. A gret war between backwood guys and city folk. The city folk have no idea what's coming. Great cast with big stars and tons of action.

Great movie to sat down to watch with the family on Saturday.

Saw this years ago and I'm a fan of Swayze's work. Good film. Southern justice vs modern crime ring.Arrived relatively quickly and in good condition 👍🏻Thank you.

This was one of my favorite movies lot of action hometown issues and family loyalty

A lot of people have no idea that there are ghosts up on Dagget's Ridge. I first saw em nearly 70 odd years ago. A friend Willy of mine did and he was arrested and violently assaulted by the police (well all but one fair police officer). There's rumor that a pair of brothers Briar and Gerald where murdered by Italian Americas for that very same reason. I never trusted a guido as far as I could throw a dilapidated tire. The fear of the supernatural is strong in people and it shows in this documentary/biopic hybrid. That's the kind of reaction to expect from the kind of people referred to in my neck of the woods as City Dwellers and Mouth Breathers by my friends and family (there's some crossover). We're from a place where William is a common name (although often abbreviated) and we're lacking unchanging and stable altitudes and landmasses. It's fairly hard for example to push a shopping cart where I'm from for more than 50 feet. Or to find a school where teachers are present. I suspect it's been like that for some time, but I digress.This film has an authenticity I haven't really seen in other films before with perhaps the exception of Winter's Bone and coincidentally basically every other movie that Patrick Swayze has been in (not counting Waking Up in Reno and Tiger Warsaw). Despite my disgust at the racist word itself, Fred Crowther is riveting as "Old Hillbilly", Eric Bana's uncredited role as Snake (or Snakeman if you want to inaccurately follow IMDB) sets a tone that almost can't be matched, Al Neal's fearless performance where he breaks character to hang up the phone the "Hillbilly Bartender" tries to use to call the police (side note Jack Kandel was born in Chicago. I've been there brother and you can have it) while Briar and Truman decide physically on a course of action is reminiscent of a young Sidney Poitier. I can't overstate the familiarity of Jack's ease and these brothers problem solving.Much like Steve McQueen's portrayals of the IRA's hunger strike in 1981, and the horrific (but misunderstood in my part of the country) slave trade in America, this film is directed by an Englishman (apparently that's not a bad thing anymore) who despite not being from Appalacia has apparently done his Bourbon soaked research and captured almost every part of life as we know it. Perhaps the only digressions is the idea that a man as amazing a Patrick Swayze (who plays the human protagonist Truman) would ever have been happy with Bettie Jean (who he did not steal from Briar) instead of Jessie, or in the general premise that Truman would have allowed anyone in his family to die in the first place. But we need drama in a movie I expect to move things along.Now I realize that younger fellas don't like people my age to be long winded so I suppose I'll leave it at that.sitting here with my brother De Witt - Charles Pierce (2016 in the year of our lord)

we lost a cool actor great movie

Great acting from Liam Neeson and Patrick Swayze. Wish some who reviewed the movie had watched it more carefully. Gerald (Truman's brother) wasn't doing anything illegal, he worked for a company with vending machines who were targeted by the Chicago mob for takeover--he got caught in a takeover mob killing. And Truman's (Swayze) brother's name was Briar (so typically mountain)--not Blair. And a reviewer wondered how Briar (Neeson) knew Chicago so well since he had never been there--Briar clearly states at Gerald's funeral he HAS been to Chicago and didn't like it, he returned home to Ky.--so that's why he knew his way around town. Both Neeson and Swayze do a great job in expressing the culture of the "hills" versus the Chicago life. Helen Hunt is good as Truman's (Swayze) wife. The scenes of the hills when Truman takes Gerald's body home for burial is so true to life, the snake bus, the relatives and their desire to settle things their way, the houses (and Briar's old RV-home), the deer head in the refrigerator and the scenes of the hill country--just exactly the way it is.Truman has gone to Chicago to make himself a better life. He's still a "mountain boy" at heart but his family back in the hills are as real as it gets. Gerald, the younger brother, has followed him to Chicago to make some money to buy a coal truck and return back to Kentucky. Also, for any who might know "mountain music", Truman, Gerald and Briar's mother is played by Jean Ritchie, one of the most famous and best of the traditional mountain dulcimer players and song writers in the business. It was a treat to see her in the role of Mom. This is a great movie, so very underrated, great acting, good story line, good paring of actors with intensity. Swayze is great as usual, Neeson can't be beat, his accent is perfect as is his look for this movie.I loved the response (as my subject line) Truman made when he was called to a seedy hotel to get a "mountain boy" involved in a murder to surrender--Truman knew Chicago as a Chicago cop--and he knew the mentality of the mountain culture--an eye for an eye and you settle your differences yourself. There were a number of great one-liners in this movie--some I particularly liked were Swayze's "enticement" to Helen Hunt for a little romp upstairs, "do you believe in the hereafter, then you know what I'm here after" and "wanna play on my teetertotter"--too funny.The music was great in this movie, a little culture and a lot of country. Swayze again wrote a song especially for this movie--"Brothers" sung by Swayze and Larry Gatlin.Great movie and one I will watch over and over.

Con Su Propia Ley (Next of Kin). Blu-ray, region B, Spanish. 1989.The picture quality's truly fantastic, 2.4:1 no black bars.Eye for an eye revenge caper as hillbillies take on the mafia.Big name cast & a great story, simple but great, star of theshow is probably the 'snake bus'. Helen Hunt doesn't do much.Run time: 1hr 48min 15secs. Extras: sod all.

a great man in his day, shame to see what he is to-day, this is 1 of his all time best action and move line,fast delivery, very pleased, thanks.....................................................................

Right up there next to 'Road House' as one of my favourate of all time swayze movies, and made in and around the same year more or less....an absolute under-rated classic

I've always loved this movie and owned it on vhs for a time. Great action all the way and a brilliant climax. I'm pleased to now own it on dvd, to add to my collection.

Unable to play disc on Samsung Multi-Region DVD Player. Seller promptly sent another disc; same issue. Also ordered elsewhere same issue; maybe my player!