Suicide Kings

Starring:Mark Watson (II), Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, Nina Siemaszko, Jay Della, Henry Thomas, Sean Patrick Flanery, Nathan Dana Aldrich, Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, Frank Medrano, Brad Garrett, James Peter 'JP' O'Fallon Jr., Nicholas Huttloff, Trent Bross, Cliff De Young, Lisanne Falk, Johnny Galecki, Louis Lombardi, Barry Del Sherman
Director: Peter O'Fallon
Studio: Live / Artisan
Product Type: DVD

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Here's another gritty independent film that tries to invade Tarantino territory by casting Christopher Walken--that most reliable of indie-film actors--as a Mobster who gets chummy with a group of preppie-like young men and becomes the victim of a kidnapping scheme. One of the kidnappers (Henry Thomas) has a sister who's been abducted by another group of kidnappers, and they've bagged Walken for his Mob connections and negotiating power. What follows is a game of psychological strategy in which the desperate group of guys slowly lose their advantage to the smarter, more experienced gangster--even though they've got Walken tied to a chair. The situation turns volatile when the young men start to doubt the wisdom of their strategy and suspect betrayal within the group, and Suicide Kings turns into a talky, repetitious thriller only partially redeemed by Denis Leary's cagey role as Walken's Mob lieutenant. The movie's a showcase for its cast of rising talent (including Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, Johnny Galecki, and Sean Patrick Flanery), but not even Walken can hold it all together. What's best about the film is Leary's sinister presence in a peripheral role and Walken's trademark villainy, here toned down to a steady, simmering menace. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

This mob film has it all.......2007-04-03

Christopher Walken is a former organized crime figure that gets kidnapped by a group of preppies that hold him for ransom. (This happens right up front in the story so I'm not giving anything away). The kidnappers realistically come off as bungling amateurs. Walken's presence is overwhelming (even duct taped to a chair) and he looms large over the whole story. Great perfomance. Throughout the film, the viewer keeps anticipating, "Somebody is going to really get hurt here". They do, of course.

The story has plenty of mystery and multiple twists. There are gruesome execution and mutilation scenes. It has laugh out loud comedy - special mention to Denis Leary and his "stingray boots". He plays a thug and is appropriately menacing and crude, but he is genuinely funny . . . even while brutally beating a man with a golf club. The R rating is appropriate.

A well written and directed film. Camera work a little unimaginative. Good sound.

If you are OK with the violence, you are guaranteed an entertaining experience with this film.

I Give This Film Five Cowbells.......2007-03-19

Is Christopher Walken the Man or what? For the first hour or so I thought Walken was essentially in paycheck mode deferring to his young co-stars(Jay Mohr, Henry Thomas, Johnny Golicki, et al), who aren't bad by the way, while he's duct-taped to a wheelchair slowly bleeding to death from a dismembered digit. Then the Walken-ator jumps into action and the wheels are in motion. You watch him size up his captors and turn the situation around to his advantage. Was there any doubt! As a bonus you also get Dennis Leary as an associate of Chris who shows the young turks that they're not ready to play with the big boys. You can say that "Suicide Kings" has a little bit of the Tarantino influence as well as "The Usual Suspects". There is enough originality in director Peter O'Fallon's film to differentiate it from it's predecessors. In a nutshell, "Walken fans, rejoice!"

BUSKET.......2007-03-09

This film is so popular that I imagine there isn't much I can say that hasn't already been said. I will tell you that it is worth your time for the Dennis Leary 'Busket' scene (oh yeah and to hear him talk about his shoes)- Leary is always hilarious. Yes, this film is indeed dark and funny- but when have you known Walken to be anything different?! LOL Hold on to your fingers (you'll understand after you watch), prepare yourself for the twisted ending and ENJOY!

Awesomely Gruesome.......2007-02-18

Christopher Walken is an excellent man of importance. these kids in the movie, superb job in creating the roles of first time kidnappers!

Suicide Kings.......2007-01-04

Another interesting Christopher Walken film...with the added enticement of Dennis Leary as a scary guy who doesn't like men who beat women. This film is richly written with well developed characters who surprise you. Walken is great as a kidnapped mob guy, who ultimmately reassures us that you're crazy to target a guy who really knows how to hurt people. After all, that's his business. Throughly engrossing.

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This mob film has it all
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Suicide Kings

Suicide Kings
Starring: Mark Watson (II) , Christopher Walken , Denis Leary , Nina Siemaszko , and Jay Della
Director: Peter O'Fallon
Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
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ASIN: 0784011516
Release Date: 2001-02-20

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Customer Reviews:

This mob film has it all.......2007-04-03

I Give This Film Five Cowbells.......2007-03-19

BUSKET.......2007-03-09

Awesomely Gruesome.......2007-02-18

Christopher Walken is an excellent man of importance. these kids in the movie, superb job in creating the roles of first time kidnappers!

Suicide Kings.......2007-01-04

Crime Collector's Pack - Suicide Kings - Bad Lieutenant - Bad Boys

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Crime Collector's Pack - Suicide Kings - Bad Lieutenant - Bad Boys
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ASIN: 0784013233
Release Date: 1999-09-28

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Suicide Kings [Region 2]
Starring: Mark Watson (II) , Christopher Walken , Denis Leary , Nina Siemaszko , and Jay Della
Director: Peter O'Fallon
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This mob film has it all
I Give This Film Five Cowbells
BUSKET
Awesomely Gruesome
Suicide Kings

Suicide Kings [Region 2]
Starring: Mark Watson (II) , Christopher Walken , Denis Leary , Nina Siemaszko , and Jay Della
Director: Peter O'Fallon
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Customer Reviews:

This mob film has it all.......2007-04-03

I Give This Film Five Cowbells.......2007-03-19

BUSKET.......2007-03-09

Awesomely Gruesome.......2007-02-18

Christopher Walken is an excellent man of importance. these kids in the movie, superb job in creating the roles of first time kidnappers!

Suicide Kings.......2007-01-04

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poor DVD

Suicide Kings/Wagons East!
Starring: Wagons East , and Suicide Kings
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poor DVD.......2006-04-30

For Wagons East this DVD is ok but if you also buy it because of Suicide Kings than this DVD isn't for you.

It's only one DVD with both movies and no extras. All the extras from the Suicide Kings Special Edition aren't on this like the Alternate Ending or Trailer and even the Audio isn't DD 5.1 (it's only DD 2.0 Stereo) and the menu is very cheap made.

Crime II Collector's Pack (Reservoir Dogs/Suicide Kings/Killing Zoe)

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Stuck in the middle with you......................
ZOE
3 Crime Thrillers which Serve there Purpose.

Crime II Collector's Pack (Reservoir Dogs/Suicide Kings/Killing Zoe)
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Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
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ASIN: 6305742502
Release Date: 2000-03-15

Description

Killing Zoe (1994, 98 min.) - An American arrives in Paris to rob a bank, but the call girl he slept with the night before happens to work there.
Reservoir Dogs (1992, 99 min.) - Perfect strangers assembled to pull the perfect crime turn against each other when they discover of them is a police informer after a simple robbery turns into a bloody ambush.
Suicide Kings (Special Edition) (1998, 106 min.) - Five college preppies concoct a crazy plan to kidnap a retired mobster and hold him for $2,000,000 in ransom, until he turns them one against the other.

Customer Reviews:

Stuck in the middle with you.............................2006-03-16

This boxset set is briliant all three films I highly recomend even though I don't have this set I have them seperate. Reservoir dogs ofcourse is the best film in this set, Quentin Tarantino's debut film is about a group of experienced criminals who have each been given a code name like Mr. Blonde Mr. Orange ect. to conceale their identeties from each other led by Joe (Lawrence Tierney) who assembeled the team in a warehouse for a simple heist but then their plans get screwed up when their happens to be a traitor amongst them. The cast of characters are excelently played by the actors especialy Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi who doesn't beleive in tipping and Michael Madsen who plays the psycho who tortures a cop that has just been captured in a hilarious yet distubing scene, this is one of the best crime thrillers of all time and should be watched by everyone it also has the best dialogue ever written which is typical Tarintino.

The next film is Scuicide kings which stars Christopher Walken as a powerful mafia boss who gets kidnapped by a bunch of college students and the reason for this kidnapping is because one of the students girlfriend has been kidnapped and held for ransome, even though the film has a few plot twists it doesn't become to excessive and tedious and the supporting cast is also brilliant O.k. not all of them Jeremy Sisto (Six feet under) was the best as a preppy and rather obnoxious person and the whole film was made better by the excellent performane by Walken.

Killing Zoe is probably the darkest and most violent film in this set, an american guy named Zed played by Eric Stoltz who dicides to visit some friends in France, so they plan to rob a bank since Zed is an expert at breaking into safes but soon alot of problems start since his prostitute girlfriend (Julie Delpy) who are both in love with each other also happens to work there so hes faced with a moral dilemma. The situation gets more intense as the cops arrive and are forced to negotiate as more hostages get killed cause the bank robbers are heavely into drugs. If you like Quentin Tarantino films and don't seem to be bothered by some gory death scenes then your going to love this cause its pretty good.

ZOE.......2001-08-07

I'm from germany and don't know the original versions in english. It's difficult to get the uncut versions in germany (german language!!!). But I KNOW that the movie isn't called "killing zone". It's called "killing zoe". "zoe" ist a prostitute and one of the main charackters of the movie. Hope that someone will correct that misstake.

best regards

PS: very nice movies......if you like Tarantino

3 Crime Thrillers which Serve there Purpose........2001-06-26

Reservoir Dogs: 5 Stars, the Perfect Crime Thriller. The Greatest directorial debut of All Time (yes, better than Citizen Kane) and, simply put, one of the Greatest movies of All Time.

Suicide Kings: 4 Stars, Highly Underated thriller that deserves to be more Widely Seen (as does a lot of Sean Patrick Flannery's work eg. "Body Shots" and "The Boondock Saints"). Exception cast make a good film Great.

Killing Zoe: 3 stars, a downer but still efective. Eric Stoltz and Julie Delpy can make Anything watchable.

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Customer Reviews:

This mob film has it all.......2007-04-03

I Give This Film Five Cowbells.......2007-03-19

BUSKET.......2007-03-09

Awesomely Gruesome.......2007-02-18

Christopher Walken is an excellent man of importance. these kids in the movie, superb job in creating the roles of first time kidnappers!

Suicide Kings.......2007-01-04

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