A strained fraternal bond lies at the heart of “Kin,” a high-octane thriller of a road movie with more bark than bite.
Eli (Myles Truitt) is a highly capable teen (he can floor a pickup truck into a tight donut and blast a mysterious raygun without batting an eye), but he’s a little too sweet and innocent to really lay into his older brother, Jimmy (Jack Reynor), deserving as he may be.
The film opens with Eli’s discovery of the otherworldly weapon in an abandoned warehouse in Detroit, where he lives with his adopted father, Hal (Dennis Quaid).Eli’s mother died when he was young, and though Hal isn’t the most effusive of fathers, he manages to cough out something about loving Eli as his own flesh and blood.
Hal’s actual flesh and blood is a real disappointment; recently out of jail, Jimmy is indebted
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