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| Carolco Pictures | Release Date: September 28, 1990 |
Starring:
Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Giancarlo Esposito, Janet Julian, Joey Chin, Laurence Fishburne, Paul Calderon, Steve Buscemi, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes
Summary:
A drug kingpin (Christopher Walken) is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.
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An outstanding gangster film -- loaded with style and ambience -- that boasts one of Christopher Walken's finest performances. [28 Aug 1991, p.E3]
Walken seems to run on his own alternative fuel source - he's always easier to observe than to understand - which makes him the natural villainous hero for Abel Ferrara's seedy King of New York, a film more interested in leaving impressions than spinning a smooth narrative. [11 Dec 1990, p.9]
That's the allure of the genre. Succeed, and you're artful,
thoughtful, and popular all at the same time. But fail, and you're the
King of New York. As failures go, this is typical enough, smugly
dividing the world into good gangsters and bad ones. [9 Nov 1990]
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