Kid Cannabis
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| Nate Norman portrayed by Jonathan Daniel Brown |
Kid Cannabis
is the true story of Idaho teen Nate Norman, and how he goes from a pot smoking
nobody to kingpin of his own drug trafficking organization. Nate Norman dropped out of high school to
help support his single mom and his younger brother. While on a pizza delivery he learns about a
person who trafficked marijuana over the Canadian border, and made enough to
put her through college. Nate later goes
and talks to his friend Christopher "Topher" Clark, about actually
doing this. Topher agrees and they proceed to drive across the Idaho-Canada
border. Once in Canada they manage to
pull up a sunken boat from a nearby lake which they sell on the highway for
$1800, which they use to buy pot. Topher
dresses up in camouflage clothing and runs across the field in between the two
countries.
The story of this
movie is extremely interesting, complete with great characters and dialogue. The main character Nate Norman did change a
little but did not have a major character development. Nate did have a strong character arc
throughout the film. The main conflict
was dodging the police while they could get as much weed across the border as
they possibly could, and dealing with an opposing kingpin. The organization were later caught by the
police and their organization was brought down.
The story of this film was extremely interesting, and it kept me
interested throughout the entire run time.
The film was
filmed in both Idaho and British Columbia which is where the actually story
took place. The actors were good and
provided a believable character. When
the characters snuck across the field between Idaho and B.C they wore ghillie suits
to avoid detection by the cameras that watched the field. The actors were not really very known names,
the most well-known actor in the movie is Ron Perlman, who starred in the
Hellboy series, Sons of Anarchy and also played a role in Pacific Rim. The locations are believable and realistic.
The movie had some
great camera angles, showing some angles to appear as security cameras viewing
the boys. It had an interesting soundtrack,
mixed with Great sound effects that sounded realistic. The lighting in the movie was perfect, it was
never too dark or too bright. I felt the
music really matched the film well. The
cinematography was great and showed off the characters great.
I would give this
movie a 9/10 because it had an extremely interesting story, with pretty good
acting. It had great camera work and great sound quality. But unfortunately
they did not develop Nate Norman's character enough throughout the film. Although Nate had little character
development he was still a very interesting character. Topher was a very interesting character as
well as the members of the "A-Team" that played a bigger role in the
story.
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| The "A-Team" sneaking across the border |
