Fresh
Complementing Walken's bravura turn are equally flamboyant performances by David Caruso as the young Irish cop out to destroy Walken, and Larry Fishburne as Walken's slightly crazy aide-de-camp.
Variety Staff, Variety
King of New York
Not everyone who runs a city is elected.
1990 · 1h 43m · R
Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Abel Ferrara
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Abel Ferrara Director
- Christopher Walken as Frank White
- David Caruso as Dennis Gilley
- Laurence Fishburne as Jimmy Jump
- Victor Argo as Roy Bishop
- Wesley Snipes as Thomas Flanigan
- Janet Julian as Jennifer
- Joey Chin as Larry Wong
- Giancarlo Esposito as Lance
- Paul Calderon as Joey Dalesio
- Steve Buscemi as Test Tube
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
74%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A film which, despite splendid location work, lurches sloppily and messily from kill to kill, orgy to orgy, coke to crack, cliche to cliche.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
[Ferrara] works unapologetically in B-movie territory, but does it with A-movie style.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten
Walken is one of the few undeniably charismatic male villains of recent years; he can generate a snakelike charm that makes his worst characters the most memorable, and here he operates on pure style.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
A hepped-up film about drugs that plays as if the filmmakers themselves kept a healthy supply of the stuff at hand.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
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