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King of New York

Cast

Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo View All

Crew

Abel Ferrara (Director) View All

Release: Jul. 18th, 1990

Runtime: 1 hour, 43 minutes

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.

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Iroquois
There is nothing particularly special about this movie. It's about drugs in New York and how all the ethnically diverse gangs are warring over it. We've heard it all before. In that case, you've got to wonder what the movie can bring in to spice up this well-worn plot..

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Rockatansky
(White makes a dig at a reporter's sensationalized coverage of him during a friendly dinner, which seeing it now can't help but make me think of the way cable news emboldened a certain political figure while claiming to decry him through breathless, unceasing coverage during his rise.) Yet White is ....