To me, this movie is perfection.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Blistering performances.

Just finished the movie, and wanted to jump straight on here to leave a review. Normally I don't bother but this was excellent. Excellent pacing, excellent action and fight scenes, excellent acting. The storyline, while not terrible original, is executed tremendously well and we were kept on the edge of our seats. Highly recommended if you enjoy movies like Taken, John Wick etc.

I knew I wasn't going to like this film. I watched it ONLY because I think Chadwick Boseman is one of the best actors to come along in decades. And, I was right. It's an awful film, filmed with truly excessive violence, and representing the part of America we all know exists in the darkest corners of some cities, and is every bit as depraved as the worst of cities in the Third World (and yes, I lived in the Third World for a while).Boseman may be the perfect actor. When you go to one of his films, you don't see Boseman; you see the character he's playing.The rest of the cast here...well, I don't think anyone comes off very well here, particularly Alfred Molina; he must be very hard up for work.I realize some like this. Personally, although I have no problem with violence or sex in a film, my take on this film -- perverted trash. It cost $10 million to make and took in only about $250,000. What a disaster. To Chadwick Boseman: You inspired us in "42". You were phenomenal is "Get On Up" (about a type of music I don't even like). You were totally impressive in "Marshall". I'm expecting great things in "Black Panther". Hopefully this is your low spot...because it can't get much lower than this. What were you thinking?

i wish i could show this film to all the haters who downvoted my review of Aftermath.Message From The King is a very personal take on the revenge film genre, kind of similar to Taken, but less Hollywood. The message, to be clear, is pain.Chadwick Boseman plays King, a black man from South Africa who shows up in the US to visit his sister, who is apparently living there.You can immediately understand that while the two siblings were close, they must have had some family issues that have now prevented from keeping close still. This is done without words, just by Acting(tm).King finds his sister's roommate, and we immediately understand that something bad has happened, she must have fallen in with the wrong crowd.King, who seems to be a young man of little means, proves himself to be a spectacular investigator and soon finds out what has happened and who needs some punishment. And he does bring on the bad people a great good deal of punishment, but not in a Hollywood "fire and brimstone" kind of way, but rather closer to the way you had that fight in highschool and nothing went as planned but in the end you won and the other guy lost.THIS is how you do grief. THIS is how you do real in a film. Boseman puts in some real effort and the result is tangible, helped by the fantastic direction and camera-work that frame the emotions rather than the script. Message From the King is a bit limited in scope, true. Guy goes on revenge. OK, but what is remarkable is that it uses good filmmaking and acting techniques to advance the story, instead of "good guy dodges bullets, bad guy's car explodes", which is, in my opinion, the reason why the rating is so low.Watch this film. If you don't like it, you'll know exactly what type of movie-goer you are.My vote: a solid 7.5/10 and hopefully we'll see more of Boseman.

Your get used to my honesty. Don't bother there's much better out there of this type of revenge film.Acting is very poor nobody seems to know what there point is and lastly if your making a film with a title as bold as this one has, at least provide some decent fight scenes this is so poor it did surprise me.