Diagonaldi Very well executed

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

betty dalton Always strange to be rooting for the bad guys, but when the biggest gangster is personified by none other than Mr Cool himself Christopher Walken, then it makes sense to want to cheer him on. Cristopher Walken plays a gangster just released from jail who triggers a shooting rampage in order to win back the monopoly over the drug trade in his town. He wants to become King of New York in the drugtrade. This movie really consists of nothing else but cool gangsta poses and shootouts. That could be its weakness, because superficial poses and violence upon violence can get boring. But fortunately it doesnt. Too bad however that the cops arent really believable in the context of the story. It would have made the movie more balanced. Now the cops appear to be cartoonlike characters only written into the story as an excuse for another shootout with Christopher Walkens gangsters.King of New York fails to be a true crime classic and becomes one of many tough gangsta movies in which violence gets glorified. But it is done in a reasonably cool way I must confess. Director Abel Ferrera really made an effort to overwhelm you with realistic shootouts. But that is a bit of the problem with this flick: shooting and posing is all there is. Christopher Walken deserves all the credit for his fascinating performance, because the man oozes coolness. He is truly the personification of a smiling shark. He and he alone saved this movie from becoming a b-movie. Could have been better, but the movie was quite enticing, as long as it lasted....

Othy59 Christopher Walken stars in this great, if a little uneven, crime film by controversial director Abel Ferrara (Driller Killer, Bad Lieutenant).It tells the story of Frank White, a crime lord who, after being released from prison, makes a violent campaign to reclaim his empire in order to use his ill-gotten gain for charitable means in this modern twist on the Robin Hood mythos. At the same time a core group of New York cops are all over him and his gang, determined to go to war, whatever the cost, to bring him down which leads to a violent climax.In a break from the usual cops and robber movie the line between crook and cop are a little blurry here. Sure Walken's character is a crook who kills people and then goes to parties laden with cocaine and sex, but he kills other scum bags and tries to use his new found freedom to do good things for charity. He's a character who is using his empire as a means to do what he feels is the right thing and raise a poor community up from its poor roots.The cops on the other hand believe that a crook, will forever be a crook. As David Caruso's (CSI: Miami joke here) character aptly puts, that the more people he kills the more it reflects badly on the cops whilst no matter what they do to stop Frank, he always gets away scot-free. I can definitely see the positives and negatives from both sides as they can be both as bad and both as justifiable in their actions. Really well thought out stuff when you think about it, and this was a film made 12 years before the Wire (which I've still got to finish watching).Though while I do say it's uneven I still hold to that. Some bits feel a little rushed in pacing and even the lawyer girlfriend to Frank White seems to vanish into thin air during the third act of the film.But despite being a low budget film, it is still a pretty good looking film with an impressive cast (including Lawrence Fishburn, Wesley Snipes and David Caruso) who play their parts really well. I did have a few niggling problems, mostly with the sound though that could attribute to the copy of the film I had. But the climax of this film is where it's really at as everything that has been building up to this comes to an exciting head.It's such a shame that this film has been so over looked, I mean I only really found out about it through Christopher Walken's film list. It deserves a lot more credit.

brendensutton92 This is a wonderful movie in my opinion and I think it's highly underrated but then again many cult movies aren't mainstream like king of New York or the warriors but there's always a fan base out there for almost anything think of this film as a hybrid of boys. In the hood and scarface with some other movie influences my favorite scene is when walken reunites with his crew after getting out in the hotel room and he does a dance that's fun to watch hell I've done it with my friends as a kind of secret handshake thing and I wonder if the makers of csi Miami saw this because of David Caruso again playing a cop this time a drug enforcement officer and he's been playing cops sense first blood I think but I love this movie strong strong recommend

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