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King's Ransom

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King's Ransom reviews
11
1.2 User Score:

Overwhelming dislike

Based on 13 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?

Based on 79 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy  |  Crime

Written by: Wayne Conley

Directed by: Jeff Byrd

Release Date:
Theatrical: April 22, 2005
DVD: July 26, 2005

Running Time: 97 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor and language

Starring Anthony Anderson, Donald Faison, Regina Hall, Jay Mohr, Loretta Devine, Kellita Smith, Nicole Ari Parker, and Leila Arcieri

When a wealthy businessman is faced with a divorce, he plots his own kidnapping.

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

33

Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown

Generic hip-hop soundtrack? Check. Aerial stock footage of milieu? Check. Hardy-har homophobia and misogyny? Check. Emasculated sub-Gump white dude played by Jay Mohr? Double check.

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30

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

Devotes its first two acts to establishing the comic monstrousness of all its characters.

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30

LA Weekly Chuck Wilson

Remarkably unfunny.

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30

Variety Justin Chang

An innocuous abduction of viewers' time, if nothing else, King's Ransom is an appealingly cast but terminally bland farce.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

Piles cliched character upon cliched character, and then doesn't give any of them very much to do.

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20

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

A desperately strained comedy.

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20

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

Lifeless and laughless.

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20

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Crass, trashy and none-too-funny comedy.

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20

Village Voice Peter L'Official

Charlie Murphy's hilarious gay gangsta, relegated to the filmic down low, provides a modicum of depth in an otherwise supremely shallow effort.

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12

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Dumber than the worst UPN sitcom.

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0

New York Post Lou Lumenick

None of this is remotely funny.

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0

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Incoherent mess of a film.

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0

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

The comic equivalent of a lump of coal.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 1.2 (out of 10) based on 79 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Roger S gave it a10:
Best movie ever.

Ryan N. gave it a10:
Da bomb of all movies!

Nick H gave it a0:
Shlockfest... anyone who rates this above a 3 has a horrible sense of humor.

Prudence K. gave it a0:
So, whoa. What a terrible film. Regina King is the only thing good about it, she's rightn ear Oscar worthy. Give Anderson the Razzie. Awful film.

greg gave it a0:
Painful waste of money.

henry s gave it a0:
Offensive, unfunny, so bad it's bad, hard to describe horrible.

matt a. gave it a1:
Wow, eleven is right (one would be more appropriate though).

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