Kaboom (2010)

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The Good: The style and direction is executed quite well. It's pretty impressive for an independent film and especially one of such R-rated material such as this.The acting is pretty good. Smith (Thomas Dekker) was pretty good as your average sexually confused teenager and the rest of the characters were all superb in their own ways.So strange it's engaging. This is definitely one of the strangest films I've ever seen. It's on Salvador Dali levels of surreality. But the strange turns the film takes are so strange they're engaging. It's like Tommy Wiseau's The Room, which is so bad it's fascinating. In this case however, it's the strangeness and sexual taboos that are so attractive about the film.The Bad: The ending was too rushed and was brought down to basic sci-fi ending levels and denominates the story to an unnecessary them or us stance. If the film had a more stranger ending and had explored a more intellectual stance on the world as we know it, then it would have been better.Some of the characters I thought were unnecessary. In fact all the characters other than Smith, Stella and London and the characters they have sexual contact with are unimportant and could've been removed.Final Score: 8/10 Great. If you're a fan of really surreal and coming of age films then this is for you. I actually think back on it and I find that I really enjoyed it. So strange it's awesome.

The actors were not terrible and the production values were not the worst, but the film was still mediocre at best. This is primarily due to it's ridiculous premise. Also, why was this film labeled a comedy? There was nothing funny about it apart from the fact that the whole movie was simply stoopid. It falls just a step or two above those lousy "adult" films that Cinemax airs in the wee hours. Sure the guys are hot (though I prefer pretty little Thomas Dekker clean shaven). However, if I just want to see some gay twinky-sex why waste my time with a lame film like this one? It might have been more worthwhile if Araki had at least graced us with a shot of Dekker's cute little ass.

OMG this is what i call bad movie. I can't believe that it actually have solid rate at 5.8. Acting is very lame, screenplay is awful. I planned to watch some Gregg Araki movies soon, but now i think i won't. Thomas Dekker and Haley Bennet had some solid acting in this movie, but rest of cast is very very bad. Well at least i was watching Haley, she is so beautifu. Only good thing about movie. In first 20 minutes story was solid and interesting. Rest of film is simply rubbish. I don't know, maybe they didn't had enough money to film it like they wanted. Anyway this film is definitely the worst of my life, so guys if you wanna lose 80 minutes of your life this is right film to do such a thing.

When people start talking about a directors previous films as a supporting material for his current one, it's not a good sign. This film is poorly plotted and paced. The actors put in committed performances but the script is laughable. Never as edgy as it seems to think it is. The actors lines fall like lead balloons from their lips. I wasn't sure if Kaboom was intentionally aiming for so-bad-its-good fare, but it missed the mark on that score. I've seen this film called 'Donnie Darko meets Rules of Engagement'; in reality if it was just a little worse, it could have been a Sci-fi Showgirls - but instead of being truly bad, it's merely mediocre. Some great performances to be fair, but a bad film that isn't bad enough to be worth recommending.