it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

There's a whole ton of 90's crime flicks out there. I should know, as it's my favourite decade for the genre, and for film in general. There's nothing like a nice piece of sassy, bloody 90's neo noir. On that note, Suicide Kings makes a rewarding, if slight entry into the niche. It's got a well rounded cast, smart ass dialogue and some moments of pure, unfiltered black comedy. Parts of it are unfocused and not all attempts at humour land squarely, but when it's good, it's good, baby. The key ingredient in any crime/comedy? Stupid people. You have to have some dundering friggin morons who think they got what it takes to pull off some idiotic scheme that's well above their pay grade and intellegience level. They show up here in the form of a gaggle of cocky frat boys who attempt to kidnap an ex mafioso for ransom. Slick pretty boy Sean Patrick Flanery, anxious dweeb Johnny Galecki, reserved Doctor Jeremy Sisto, terrified sensitive boy Henry Thomas and arrogent hotshot Jay Mohr. The mafioso is played by...guess. yep, Christopher Walken, silkily dangerous as Charlie Bartolucci, a guy who used to be a guy you don't want to mess with, and as the film progresses, unravels back to that volatile state. Walken spends most of the film tied to a chair and even then finds ways to amuse and terrify with his impish aura. Another key component in these neo noir's: an angry bad dude sent to inflict all kinds of pain and suffering on the idiots, personified by wiseass Lono Vecchio (Denis Leary). He hunts them down with verve, also dealing with two clinically insane hit men (Brad Garrett and Frank Medrano, priceless) who are involved as well. The plot thickens to just this side of convoluted, as the boys realize that one amongst them is pulling a nasty Judas on the other four. Leary, like I said before, is capable of staggering gravitas in between sessions of manic joker antics. Here the film stops dead in its tracks midway through so he can teach an abusive father a cringe worthy, painful lesson, preceded by a sorrowful monologue about his youth. It's the best part of the film in the sense that the tone is completely different from every other scene, making it memorable. This one isn't perfect, I wouldn't call it an amazing flick, but it's got moments of pure genius, and overall is pretty fun, if only two thirds of a great one. Worth it for Walken and Leary. It also has a stinger of an ending that goes against the grain and may rub people the wrong way, but I applauded for not pussying out.

This is certainly a movie for switching off the brain and cutting it a bit of slack. The story is unbelievable. The plan hatched by the rich kids isn't even half baked, They are sloppy, careless and idiotic to believe that they can rectify one kidnapping scenario by themselves kidnapping an infamous mobster. Then they cut off one of his fingers! No face masks, names and personal details revealed they get whats coming to them.Suicide Kings is close to a one man show. This is Walken at his supreme best. Angry , menacing, ice cold and funny. Often all at the same time. He carries the movie so much that it is difficult to imagine anyone else in the role. The weakest characters for me were the two gangsters used by the insider for the initial kidnap. They were just too screwball even for a black comedy like this. Their humour was forced and unnatural while the rest of the comedy flowed. Spoiled for me what otherwise would have been a perfect 10.

Chritopher Walken is an ex mob boss who is kidnapped by three spoiled, rich kids, who explain that one of them, Avery's sister has been taken hostage, and that the guys responsible want 2 million dollars for her release. They show Charlie(Walken) a pinkey finger floating in a bowl of ice, and threaten him with the same, not realizing that he would bleed to death, due to a medical condition. Things are not as they seem, as Charlie manipulates the boys against each other. He uncovers the fact of a bad gambling debt which was the reason for the ransom demand in the first place. Negotiations lead to a very clever twist in the story, which I will not give away and Christopher Walken is perfect as the bad man who tells the wannabee gangsters, at one point, I'm looking at dead men. The movie is loosely based on the case of some young rich guys in Westchester County who ran a multimillion dollar gambling and money laundering ring. Truth is stranger than fiction, and here it makes for interesting entertainment.

This movie is a fun "twisted thriller" with blood, violence and some entertaining twists. Christopher Walken's performance was great and the individualized performances of the younger cast members were good too. This film kept me interested from beginning to end to see who the inside man is. The film is a bit over dramatized but it sort of adds to the comedic values of the film. This was a entertaining thriller with some great cast with good lines, it was slick and cool. Although kidnap films has been done for a very long time, this is a cool movie that makes sense and is well worth your time.8/10