King's Ransom
New Line Cinema | Release Date: April 22, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
11
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
0
Negative:
13
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33
Entertainment WeeklyScott Brown
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. Read full review
30
VarietyJustin Chang
An innocuous abduction of viewers' time, if nothing else, King's Ransom is an appealingly cast but terminally bland farce. Read full review
30
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Devotes its first two acts to establishing the comic monstrousness of all its characters. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
Remarkably unfunny. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
Piles cliched character upon cliched character, and then doesn't give any of them very much to do. Read full review
20
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Crass, trashy and none-too-funny comedy. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
Lifeless and laughless. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
A desperately strained comedy. Read full review
20
Village VoicePeter L'Official
Charlie Murphy's hilarious gay gangsta, relegated to the filmic down low, provides a modicum of depth in an otherwise supremely shallow effort. Read full review
12
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Dumber than the worst UPN sitcom. Read full review
0
New York PostLou Lumenick
None of this is remotely funny. Read full review
0
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Incoherent mess of a film. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
The comic equivalent of a lump of coal. Read full review
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