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.
1959, Puerto Rico
22 May 1964, New York City, New York, USA
March1963, Hanford, California, USA
7 January 1956, Forest Hills, New York, USA
29 September 1963, San Francisco, California, USA
10 July 1959, Evanston, Illinois, USA
27 October 1935, Brooklyn, New York, USA
13 December 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
10 November 1966, London, England, UK
6 May 1961, USA
20 September 1963, Brooklyn, New York, USA
15 August 1929, USA
7 August 1963, Brooklyn, New York, USA
31 January 1965, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
May 20, 2003
[Ferrara] works unapologetically in B-movie territory, but does it with A-movie style.
April 24, 2008
walken is cool as ever
October 01, 2005
Containing performances and and an attitude that is gleefully over-the-top, it's a bit of good fun.
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.
May 04, 2006
Deliciously indecent.
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.
