King's Ransom
Metascore
11 out of 100

Overwhelming dislike - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 13
  3. Negative: 13 out of 13
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Scott Brown
    33
    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.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Chuck Wilson
    30
    Remarkably unfunny.
  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    30
    Devotes its first two acts to establishing the comic monstrousness of all its characters.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Justin Chang
    30
    An innocuous abduction of viewers' time, if nothing else, King's Ransom is an appealingly cast but terminally bland farce.
  5. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Hartlaub
    25
    Piles cliched character upon cliched character, and then doesn't give any of them very much to do.
  6. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    20
    A desperately strained comedy.
  7. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    20
    Crass, trashy and none-too-funny comedy.
  8. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Peter L'Official
    20
    Charlie Murphy's hilarious gay gangsta, relegated to the filmic down low, provides a modicum of depth in an otherwise supremely shallow effort.
  9. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Crust
    20
    Lifeless and laughless.
  10. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    12
    Dumber than the worst UPN sitcom.
  11. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    0
    None of this is remotely funny.
  12. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    0
    The comic equivalent of a lump of coal.
  13. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    0
    Incoherent mess of a film.

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User Score
1.8 out of 10

Overwhelming dislike- based on 82 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 17
  3. Negative: 11 out of 17
  1. mrcritic
    7
    I liked this movie. It was really funny, and all of these stupid critics are just jealous that such a movie came along that some critics loved, but some hated, so they blended in with the crowd.… Full Review »
  2. RogerS
    10
    Best movie ever.
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