King of New York is one of Abel Ferraras best films and has a strong cult following. This largely has to do with the dark tone and idiosyncratic take on the material as well as the amazing cast, which features Christopher Walken as Frank White, who the title refers to, Laurence Fishburne as his right-hand man, David Caruso as the cop whos after them and Wesley Snipes, Steve Buscemi, Giancarlo Esposito, Paul Calderon and Victor Argo filling out the rest of the cast nicely. Frank has just been released from a lengthy prison bid and has great plans for the future. Realizing how much he has taken in the past, he wants to give back to his city and the poor and underprivileged that inhabit it. So he decides to build a new drug empire to be able to fund the building of a large hospital in Brooklyn for those who need it most. In the process he starts wiping out all rival gangs, not so much because they stand in his way but more so because they dont want to cooperate with his altruistic plans. Meanwhile the cops, jealous of his wealth and uninterested in his motivations, are hot on his tail for the carnage hes leaving in his wake. An original modern take on the Robin Hood story, where some criminals arent all that bad and some cops arent all the good, King of New York is a very original take on the gangster genre with some serious themes on ethnicity and morality lurking just beneath the surface. If you like gangster films, you will like King of New York.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:55:29 +0000
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