Severely underrated. When Walken and Fishburne are on screen it is pure magic, great performances. The film is delightfully bleak and gritty with a few missteps but the story fills you with such a sense of dread that I barely even noticed. The dialogue didn't bug me at all and the shootout with the cops was well done. Worth seeing

Hoo boy do I have conflictions with this one. The last half teeters the ridiculous factor high, but goodness it is entertaining. And stylish. And Chris Walken dances. And there's awesome cameos all over the place. And, etc.

Brutal. Excellent film, now with a bit of cult status. Has it's flaws, but strong cast keeps you interesting to the end.

It's unstructured and steeped in a dated early-90s aesthetic, but that helps the film more than it hurts it, giving it a raw power and a vivid sense of time and place. Ridiculous but never enough to detract from the power of the narrative, and in fact in service of it. Frank White is a hell of a character, and if Walken's performance isn't great, it's certainly electric - he's magnetic every second he's on the screen. Ferrara's direction is very stylish, with some standout cinematography.

A New York drug lord fights rival gangs and the police, everyone kills everyone and it's a thrill-ride, tense and edgy with a fantastic cast. Reminds me a bit of De Palma's version of Scarface, but much better. In fact, this is one of the most enjoyable films of its ilk, so long as you overlook some of the absurdities it expects you to believe, such as that Public Enemy #1 is pursued by only three (amazingly foolhardy) policemen.

Christopher Walken shoots David Caruso in the face. That has to be one of the pinnacles of film as an art form.

Colors galore!

More than a little weird (a crime boss who starts killing off mobsters because they won't help him bankroll a children's hospital?), but it is one of the most elegant crime films I've seen. And Walken is very, very good.

Abel Ferrara's stylish vision of crime is still fresh and entertaining. The story of Frank White, amazingly incorporated by Chris Walken, is butchery but somehow catchy. He's a gangster whose "feelings are dead", but also an ordinary man in a melancholic pursuit of redemption.

71.000

I'm going to avoid New York, maybe forever thanks to this film.

Probably one of the most basic kind of crime/drama/action movies. But there is supreme factor what makes this an above average movie: CHRISTOPHER WALKEN. What a hero! Also Laurence Fishburne delivered a perfect performance.

Feels very much a film from its era, rather than a film of its era. Not that the strong 90's aesthetic is necessarily a bad thing, but at any point I expected MC Hammer to burst in from the sidelines. The excellent Walken pretty much carries this all on his own, with a few okay support performances. The cops in particular felt underdeveloped as characters, & I simply can't take a man as ginger as Caruso seriously. Also Wesley Snipes plays a character called Thomas Flanigan in this movie... lol.

This is a nice gangster film, but, I don't know exactly why, I was expecting so much more. I always get a little disappointed when I watch Ferrara's movies, I feel that it could be much better than it really was.

Thoughtful and stylish, but definitely a bit dated. Walken is wonderful, and the assembled cast is fine; Fishburne in particular has some great lines, delivered with gusto. Worth checking out.

Okay Movie

Dark and bloody with a pretty good lead performance

A fairly good film, worth watching just to see what some of these actors looked like back then. Steve Buscemi is also in this film, also notice this was made before Laurance adoped the his surname.