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King's Ransom
11
Metascore
13 reviews · Provided by
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30
Variety
Justin Chang
Variety
Justin Chang
An innocuous abduction of viewers' time, if nothing else, King's Ransom is an appealingly cast but terminally bland farce.
30
The A.V. Club
Nathan Rabin
The A.V. Club
Nathan Rabin
Devotes its first two acts to establishing the comic monstrousness of all its characters.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
Piles cliched character upon cliched character, and then doesn't give any of them very much to do.
20
TV Guide Magazine
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide Magazine
Maitland McDonagh
Crass, trashy and none-too-funny comedy.
20
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Lifeless and laughless.
20
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
A desperately strained comedy.
20
Village Voice
Village Voice
Charlie Murphy's hilarious gay gangsta, relegated to the filmic down low, provides a modicum of depth in an otherwise supremely shallow effort.
12
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Dumber than the worst UPN sitcom.
0
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
None of this is remotely funny.
0
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Incoherent mess of a film.
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