Kaboom artfully describes a relentlessly accelerating path through a surreal and intentionally disjointed narrative landscape, a trip that many viewers might find reminiscent of a college-age long weekend bender. The film blasts forward on rails, but like every decent roller coaster, it will have you convinced it is careening into a wall, then in free fall, then rocketing into the sky, all whilst actually corkscrewing on tracks that deliver you to an explosive and carefully engineered ending, one that was always craftily obfuscated in plain sight. Kaboom starts as a sassy college character piece, and promptly detours off the straight and narrow into a raunchy and kaleidoscopic melange that successfully mixes party-culture film with campus slasher, unapologetically eye-candy laced pansexual boinkfest, identity-seeking teen angst flick, conspiracy nut thriller, and stoner comedy. Screw subtlety; why hint at themes when you can spray the walls with them, why drop one tab when you can eat 5? Most importantly, why commit to one when you can have them all? You're only 19 once, and this film goes for broke celebrating that golden age where we all are the chosen one.
Review of Kaboom
