King of New York (1990)
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Crime, Action
Directed By: Abel Ferrara
Written By: Nicholas St. John
Starring: Christopher Walken, Steve Buscemi, Victor Argo, Laurence Fishburne, Wesley Snipes, Theresa Randle, Paul Calderon, David Caruso, Harold Perrineau, Janet Julian, Leonard L. Thomas, Alonna Shaw
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cankutozturk | 76 65% |
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This film has some boring scenes and some exciting ones. The cast does a good job in this story. The screen play has a lot of typical moments you find in crime films. Overall I would recommend this film.
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peekingpanda | 45 47% |
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Despicable characters, with bizarre motivations, making awful decisions every step of the way. Much like At Close Range, a good Walken performance alone does not make a good movie.
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Who was David Caruso for? Dirty clean Abel flick.
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| May 22 | 8505144 | 24 17% |
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| May 20 | Cercle_Rouge | 62 35% |
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Despite all the sex and killing, the message seems fairly conventional (violence begets violence) or even conservative (crime doesn't pay). Even the moral ambiguity - the police aren't much better than the gangsters, there's a thin line between the criminal underworld and respectable professionals and politicians - seems a bit derivative and it ultimately pulls its punches: the one more or less unambiguously good guy is a cop. It's well made though and Walken is great as usual.
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Like a crossbreed of The Wire and Grand Theft Auto splashed with a bucket of exploitation paint. Walken is fucking amazing, and this is one of my favorite things I've seen him do. Maybe his best?
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Not sure how this one escaped me all these years. Gritty crime drama that gets right into the action and stays there.
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Wesley Snipes looked like such a dork with those glasses and the rap music was cringe but other than that
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Walken headlines a fine cast in a great and brutal gang war movie that is a product of its time period.
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This 90s-to-the-max film never manages to project the epic, "kingly" scale it seems to be aspiring to. It's almost as if Ferrara was forced to pare a 4-hour movie back to the bare bones, and it's much the worse for it. It's obvious that many characters have much more to say. Some of the—brutal—action scenes are great, though, and Walken carries the whole thing with verve.
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| Nov 20, 2018 | microplast | 70 52% |
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a hellaciously violent, uber-quotable action classic of masterful formal control and detail, shot through with a disquieting, fatalistic beauty. double bill it with COSMOPOLIS, another suffocating modern vampire movie in which an "undead" "businessman" attempts to reawaken himself by "nobly" putting a wrench in the inscrutable system of an alienating nu-new york corporatized and commodified to abstraction.
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Walken sells his character even though the story actually doesn't explain how he can have any power or money when no one on either side of the law wants anything to do with him. In fact the film takes a style over substance approach to all its characters, fortunately it has a cast that allows this to work. The action scenes are energetic and a sense of continual tension makes you anticipate an eruption of violence any time.
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Gangster as fuck, with an abundance of ridiculous scenes and (many) quotable lines of dialogue that had me cracking up, but still indebted to Ferrera's awesome knack for visual flair and pulpy brutality.
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