director john irvin must have a real passion for mob movie . he try his best in both schwarzenegger raw deal and now patrick swayze next of kin to create a violent and good action film but make it passionate and dramatic and all about crime family v crime family . however and next of kin be the late creation and he must have fine tune some of the mistake from the rather slow move raw deal . next of kin be a much good film and perhaps a big part of that be the strong cast of future star next of kin carry . liam neeson and helen hunt and ben stiller and bill paxton and and even patrick swayze who be really at the height of his career in this film . between dirty dancing and ghost . next of kin take a rather liberal view at a group of people not normally deal with in film . mountain people . or hillbilly if you will . swayze play a former country boy who move to the big city and become a cop and marry his love and and be now urbanized himself . his little brother who aim to follow up in his footstep end up get himself murder by the crime family and isabella . the rest of his kin want swayze to avenge the death but swayze be determine to let justice take it course . again and much like raw deal and next of kin be about vengeance and anger and it all bottle up until one big explosion of revenge in the end . the big difference be that next of kin stay interest through the whole movie right up to and include the end and still have some really great action scene to boot . the cast a previously mention be very well do fortunately for mr. irvin . swayze play a convincing cop and mountain boy and him and helen hunt have decent chemistry for their brief on screen moment . adam baldwin a the blood thirsty villain do a good job ( not as good his late performance in joss whedon serenity ( aka firefly ) a jayne but he be convince a the bad guy . ben still brief role be also quite good a the smarter villain but he doesn not last long . overall next of kin be mostly forgettable but a decent entry in the eighty action genre . it have it moment and be worth check out for those full of nostalgia . 7 . 5/10 .