This modern western toys with classic genre conventions and gives them a new and quite attractive 1990s wrapping in which heavy metal aficionados are pitted as part of the solution rather than the problem (for once). The bad guys are middle-aged, trigger-happy chauvinists, and our good guy - our sexy, steaming, too-cool-for-school good guy - is like a 20-year-old Blondie. He doesn't talk unless he has to and he doesn't kill unless he's compelled to, but boy do we get that he is. We also get why the delicate Sarah Trigger wants him to pay her nightly visits. Kid is more or less the ultimate B-movie. It uses all of its stereotypical ingredients to create a timeless, suspenseful guilty pleasure - which is also a tribute to 1990 fashion, by the way. Arguably C. Thomas Howell's best ever performance.
Review of Kid
