Kid Cannabis (2014)

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

The acting in this movie is really good.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Comedies about pot are getting so stale nowadays and this doesn't bring anything original to the genre. I'll laugh if there's reason to but the writer of this movies tries way way way too hard to get a laugh which takes me out of it. I don't want to add spoilers (wont really matter for this movie but still wont) but the laughs are so few far and between, as if this is for people who are high and will laugh at anything. There might be a moment or two but this is yet another rehashed version of the 100's of stoner movie i watched over last decade and offers nothing different. I just wished the writer was more talented and worked on his comedic substance and timing a little better. If you are paralyzed, watch TV all day and have watched everything else on Netflix, then I guess I can kind of recommend. Just don't watch if you have to pay for it or have a life.

The acting was horrible, if you look at production dates and the gross revenue it is evident no publisher liked this movie, and no one payed to watch it, people have only watched it through Netflix.The movie is inaccurate in the fact that 300lbs Is only worth about 480000 street. I don't know how much they legitimately bought and sold in real life but the pricing was definitely inaccurate in the movie. Also a trafficker would not be paid such a huge percentage. There was also maybe 10lbs of weed in the suppliers grow room.This movie was not comedic, I had no emotion when they were being robbed, this whole production seems as if a few kids came together made a movie with their friends and asked two of the lowest budget pro actors to give them three minutes of footage. The whole experience was a major waste of time, and I'm disgusted by the fact that I wasted these few hours of my life.The soundtrack was also horrible white kids rapping.

First, Nate (fat nerdy kid) decides to get into drug trafficking. Does so with remarkable ease by finding the best grade of weed from a secret supplier in Canada by just driving into a gas station and smoking some grass with a hot girl he and his friend Christopher just met.Then, a big time hustler, who apparently would do business with my cousin's 6 year old son, hands same fat nerdy kid over half a million dollars whose only security deposit is a kid brother and a mother who really couldn't care less that her son was an overnight millionaire.The story may have been a great one, but Jonathan Daniel Brown has to be the worst example of a leading actor (especially in this kind of role) coupled with the sometimes ludicrously poor character executions possible.Had hope, but it wasn't worth it.

'KID CANNABIS': Three and a Half Stars (Out of Five) Crime drama/comedy flick about a high school dropout who becomes a multimillion-dollar drug lord when he and his friend start trafficking marijuana, from Canada into Idaho. It's based on the true story of Nate Norman, played in the film by Jonathan Daniel Brown (of 'PROJECT X' fame). It costars Kenny Wormald, Aaron Yoo, Amanda Tapping, Ron Perlman and John C. McGinley. The movie was written and directed by John Stockwell and it's based on articles by Mark Binelli and Kevin Taylor. I was surprised to find out the film is not a joke; it actually takes the subject matter seriously and depicts it in a, somewhat, realistic way. It's also funny at times.Nate Norman (Brown) was an overweight 18-year-old high school dropout, who lived in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho with his mother (Tapping) and kid brother (Mark Hills). He delivered pizzas, not only to support him but his family as well, and loved getting high with his 27-year-old friend Topher (Wormald). One day, while delivering pizzas, he comes up with the idea of smuggling drugs from Canada; by running them through the woods across the border. He asks Topher to partner with him, on his plan, and when the two start making a lot of money, he enlists the help of their other friends as well. Things go really well for the guys until greed and rival drug dealers become a huge problem.The movie is marketed as a teen sex comedy flick (with a lot of drug use as well). It definitely has a lot of sex, nudity and drug use but it's not a slapstick comedy in any way. There's humor frequently but for the most part it's a pretty serious attempt to depict what life was like for these two, very young, drug dealers. It's raunchy but also brutally violent and suspenseful at times. I found it involving and informative and I like how they didn't make Nate or Topher out to be heroes. Sure they're likable guys, who meant well and didn't really do anything wrong, but they were also greedy and selfish too. The performances are all good and Stockwell does a decent job writing and directing (he's directed other cool B movies like 'BLUE CRUSH' and 'IN THE BLOOD'). I enjoyed this movie and think it's definitely worth a watch.Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: youtu.be/3AK4roDokJo