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King of New York
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to the city's poor.
31 August 1961, Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA
25 August 1947, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA
31 January 1965, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
10 July 1959, Evanston, Illinois, USA
24 June 1935, Brooklyn, New York, USA
5 November 1934, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
27 October 1935, Brooklyn, New York, USA
29 September 1963, San Francisco, California, USA
2 October 1956, Harlem, New York, USA
October 01, 2005
Containing performances and and an attitude that is gleefully over-the-top, it's a bit of good fun.
September 26, 2009
King of New York's storyline is pretty one-note, but there's an energy and aura of fear lingering in every gritty composition.
January 01, 2000
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.
May 04, 2006
Deliciously indecent.
December 19, 2006
Ferrara began to be taken more seriously by critics with this operatic crime film, which was shown at the NY Film Festival, where it elicited walkouts (including helmer's wife) along with praise.
April 24, 2008
walken is cool as ever
June 24, 2006
A film which, despite splendid location work, lurches sloppily and messily from kill to kill, orgy to orgy, coke to crack, cliché to cliché.
May 26, 2006
Ferrara's dangerous vision of the city at night goes beyond what most creampuff directors are capable of; he gets to the core of everything from the silent, dark windows of towering penthouses to the vicious rattling of crime-ridden subways.
May 20, 2003
[Ferrara] works unapologetically in B-movie territory, but does it with A-movie style.
January 01, 2000
A hepped-up film about drugs that plays as if the filmmakers themselves kept a healthy supply of the stuff at hand.
March 26, 2009
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.
September 25, 2008
Review by Mike Martin - It looks fantastic, and there is an air of real menace to proceedings, but seems to belong to another age somehow.