For a movie like this to work, the kid has to be likeable. In the first half hour the kid tries to have Coffee killed or injured by hiring thugs. You can't come back from that. Doesn't matter how he bonds to Coffee later, this kid is an awful human being. Between that and the constant profanity, I just couldn't care less about the kid. What an a-hole. And the kid's mom is supposed to be such a great mother figure that everyone around her does whatever she tells them to do. She makes criminals bow to her will. But she can't get her kid to have any decency in him. What a mess.
Review of Coffee & Kareem
