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King's Ransom
New Line Cinema

King's Ransom reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 11 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
1.2 out of 10
based on 13 reviews
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based on 79 votes
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MPAA 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.


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Crime  
WRITTEN BY: Wayne Conley  
DIRECTED BY: Jeff Byrd  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: July 26, 2005 
Theatrical: April 22, 2005 
RUNNING TIME: 97 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

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

Vote Now!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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