Suicide Kings | | Cast : | Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, Sean Patrick Flanery | | Director : | Peter O'Fallon | | Studio : | Artisan Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | April 17, 1998 | | DVD Released Date : | February 20, 2001 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 18, 2005 | | Summary | WOnderful cast makes for wonderful movie | Content
 | "Suicide Kings" is a movie about 4 twenty-somethings strange plot to find the kidnapper of their friend/sister/girlfriend. Avery has just found out that his sister has been kidnapped. SO, rather than go to the police, he solicites the help of his friends, one being Brent(Jay Mohr), who conconct a hair-brain idea, involving the kidnapping of a former mob boss, Charlie Barret or Batolucci(Christopher Walken), depending on what time in his life one knew him..
The idea is that Walken would be able to find who the kidnappers are AND front the ransom money; due to his street credibility/capability.
Well, along the way, we learn that there are many wrinkles in this plan, mostly because one (or more) of the 4 guys are in on it. They take Walken to Ira's house, and this is where much of the humor in the movie come from, along with the antics of Lono(Denis Leary), who is fabulous as Charlie's driver.
THis movie is excellent, mainly due to the superb cast and superb acting. Walken is, as always, the perfect guy to play a mob boss/creepy villian and works so well with Jay Mohr and Denis Leary. The writing is really good and the story is really fun to watch unravel.
No doubt you will read many reviews here putting down the plot and comparing this movie to Tarantino films, which is just stupid!!
THIS MOVIE WAS NOT WRITTEN BY TARANTINO, so why do people expect it to be as good as something Tarantino did??????
These are like people who can only listen to one type of music, because their minds are so closed that they can't bother to find value in anything else.
Trantino is NOT God and did not invent the film reel people. There are plenty of other great movies out there and this happens to be one of them. This film is NOT to be taken seriously. It's not to be taken literally. It's not meant to be 10o% percent believable. BUT, it IS meant to entertain, and that it certainly does.
I highly recommend this movie for a good time and to see some of the finest Waklen lines/mannerisms he has done. YOu certainly can't beat the price!
HAVE FUN and LIGHTEN UP!! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 28, 2005 | | Summary | It takes a female mind to be a creative failure | Content
| A strange film because it sounds really too simple and easy to kidnap a maffia king. Apart from that the rest is interesting. The strategy used by the kids is amateurish and silly. The maffia king gets information he should not get but the kids don't know how to monitor communication with such professional outlaws. And then the maffia king plays with them as if they were so many mice and they are mice. Of course the head of the adventure could not be a man. It was too complex in the details and the security of the plot was based on too many layers of distanciated information among the band of apprentice criminals for the brain to be male. So the maffia king manages to talk them into freeing him, though he has to put two million dollars on the table. But within days he cleans up the four real associates of the plot with four slugs, and a few more for suffering and pleasure, and he recuperates most of his money. A deeply immoral film but entertaining because extremely complex in the plotting itself. It rakes our minds and brains a little, which is a change in this humdrum society of ours. Christopher Walken is as good as usual on the criminal keyboard, even with only nine fingers.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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| Rating | | | Date | June 10, 2005 | | Summary | LOOK how cheap this is! BUSKET! | Content
| This movie is a rip-off of some of Tarantino's work...I still think it shines in some places, and is worth the cheap cheap cheap price you can get it for.
Both here on Amazon, and at your local Wally-world (where I got mine in the bargain bin)
It is short on extras but does include two alternate endings with commentary.
The script of this movie fails. So formulaic and pretentious, in the way that they have to explain every little thing to you. As if they think the story is so twisted and hard to follow.
A group of twenty something spoiled rich kids kidnap a mobster (Walken). They need his connections and money to save one of the kid's sister, who has been kidnapped because of some gambling debt. They realize they have gotten in over their heads. Can they figure out how to get the sister back, and release the mobster, so that they don't all end up dead? Dun dun DUNNN...There are plot twists in this movie but you see them coming a mile away.
There are some acting problems in this movie, but they may just be the result of an idiotic script. Walken is great as usual, and Denis Leary is hilarious! I think Leary's preformance is worth the five bucks tops you will pay for this movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 06, 2005 | | Summary | ENTIRE CAST IS GREAT! | Content
| I picked up this movie from a $5 bin at Walmart, but wasn't expecting it to be a great movie, since it was only $5, but I could not have been more mistaken! This is a really witty, smart movie, and everyone cast was right for the part. There, simply said, one of the best movies for the best price anywhere! |
| Rating | | | Date | February 25, 2005 | | Summary | worth it on dvd | Content
| shocking moving story
with amazing sick visuals
like the finger getting cut off for numerous reasons
and Walken sees blood dripping on the floor and wonder where it comes from. the whole cast is great. Denis Leary and Walken add humor and sinisterness to the movie. a shocking but very touching and moving movie. worth the watch again and again on my dvd player. watched it 2 times. the movie is hilarious too at various parts in the movie. there is a lesson to be learned from this movie. and maybe you viewers will figure it out like I did. I don't want to give it away. we all have to work at it. that's what makes the lesson valuable. that we found it out for ourselves. glad so much that I got this on dvd. it too will also be seen spinned more and more on my player |
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