Product Description

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to new yorks poor and lower classes Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 08/30/2005 Starring: Christopher Walken Run time: 106 minutes Rating: R

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13447 in DVD
• Brand: Lions Gate
• Released on: 2004-04-20
• Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 106 minutes

Amazon.com
This low-budget crime thriller has the feel of a major blockbuster and owes its roots to the hard-edged crime movies of the 1930s. Christopher Walken stars as a drug kingpin who is released from prison and vows to use his position and influence--and criminal enterprise--for charitable means. But a core group of New York cops are all over him and his gang, determined to go to war, whatever the cost, to bring him down. Eventually his empire--headquartered at, of all places, Donald Trump's Plaza Hotel--crumbles under the weight of double-crossing and a body count of open warfare with the cops. This is one of the most stylish films of the last decade, with a strong supporting cast (including Lawrence Fishburne, Wesley Snipes, and David Caruso) and some truly enthralling set pieces, including a stunning car chase and gunfight across a rain-soaked Queensboro Bridge. The film's tongue-in-cheek, over-the-top style offsets its nihilism; and its riveting visuals will have audiences hooked from beginning to end. --Robert Lane

Customer Reviews

This movie stinks
I really like Christopher Walken, but this movie is a real dead dog. One of the worst movies I've ever seen - completely unrealistic, totally bad. I don't know how they got some of the actors in this stinker to show up and actually admit they had any part in this abomination. If you want a gangster movie, this isn't one - they spend more time emphasizing nudie club make scences than doing anything as far as developing a story or plot - a real stinker - not even worth the wrapper it's packaged in.

Awesome...Christopher Walken, chilling and complicated...

I recently watched this 1990 gangster thriller again and was blown
away. I had seen it when I was 17 when it came out and at the time
didn't really take note of the beautifully subtle performace of
Christopher Walken as Frank White, a recently parolled Kingpin who
immediatley takes control of the turf he left behind when he was inside.
Fantastic direction from Abel Ferrera, who seems to love Walken a lot,
for he shows up in Ferrera's 'The Funeral' and 'The Addiction'.
This movie is a catalogue of today's best character and supporting actors.

Lawrence Fishburne (billed as Larry Fishburne) is chilling and brilliant
in his potrayal of Frank's right hand man Jimmy Jump - he creates a character so nasty and psychotic he makes Ike Turner seem more like a nice
guy rather than a wifebeater.
David Caruso also shines as an honest cop pushed too far by the system that he decides to lead his own crew into battle to take Frank out - seeign that the system 'favours the scumbag'. Wesley Snipes has also never been better - in his Blade movies he's too cartoonish but from his
rare honest policeman role he really excels. The script is intelligent
and the story is tight - i don't know how some people think this movie is a mess - I understood it all immediatley - but then again I love crime movies. The action is also extremely cool, and the chase across the
Queensborough bridge in the rain is very stylish and exciting.
Cinematographer Bojan Bazelli's camerawork is amazing and also watch out for Steve Buscemi and Theresa Randle in some of their earlier work.
I understand why this movie isn't as adored as Scarface as the ending of
the movie seems like an anti-climax but I think the exciting 20 mins preceeding it is more climax than most cop thrillers.

Blu-Ray? So So
The movie is great. I had a DVD, watched in the theater a long time ago so no doubt about it.

Now the Blu-ray. I don't know why the other guy said it's a razor sharp.
The transfer is so so. Most of the shots are slightly better than the DVD.

The sound is too small so have to boost up all the way. Gun fight sound is flat.

Well, I wouldn't say I regret changing into Blu-Ray, but couldn't say it's one of the best Blu-ray.