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.
27 October 1935, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1959, Puerto Rico
May 5, 1955 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
16 September 1987, Carmichael, California, USA
20 September 1963, Brooklyn, New York, USA
30 July 1961, Augusta, Georgia, USA
7 August 1963, Brooklyn, New York, USA
20 May 1942, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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.
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.
May 20, 2003
[Ferrara] works unapologetically in B-movie territory, but does it with A-movie style.
May 04, 2006
Deliciously indecent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
