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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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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 2.5/5 Stars • Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review 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 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member awful the longest hour and a half movie I have ever seen. it is just straight up terrible. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/14/20 Full Review Audience Member need to view it again. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member This should've never happened. If you've seen the anime already know there's no way they should've done it. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Awful. Miserable tween-femme-fatale gore. Lousy acting, lame plot/story, and poor production. Flush this crapper from your queue. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Ralph Ziman Director India Eisley Sawa Callan McAuliffe Oburi Samuel L. Jackson Karl Aker Deon Lotz Det. Prinsloo Carl Beukes Vic Thornhill

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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 (Strong Bloody Violence|Grisly Images|Drug and Sexual Content)
Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 10, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 10, 2014
Runtime: 1h 30m