Siddhant Adlakha In spite of clocking in at just 103 minutes, Dito Montiel‘s family crime comedy “Riff Raff” is exceptionally long.
Its all-star cast performs admirably, in a film that takes its time to get going, reveals and confronts little once it does, and uses none of its story swerves to build on its dramatic themes, or its one-note humor.
As the secrets of the past catch up with a father and son, threatening to detail their new idyllic lives, the film’s established ideas of love and family don’t so much come into play as they simply hover out of focus, waiting to be deployed.
Unfortunately, they never are. A fleeting, one-shot prologue portrays a climactic moment during which meek teenager DJ (Miles J.
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