Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

westsideschl 1. Miscast, a thin attractive model type figure to represent the Afro-American community. A good looking white male to be her counter. Ends up sexual? 2. Half of movie is historic TV coverage (mostly from air, some ground level) of R. King and early '90s L.A. riots. Like any graphic video w/out research & facts to help interpret/understand it's all in the eye of the beholder. 3. As a civil rights active advocate from decades ago I do not endorse one-sidedness on any side. Film failed to provide any discussion from Asian shop owners POV from that period or from police (black, white, Asian, Hispanic) and their POVs. 4. Film was sensationalism for it's own sake and lacked an intelligent base from which to form the storyline.

lavatch There is a salient dramatic moment in "Kings" when Halle Berry's character Millie is placed in handcuffs by the police at a time when her little children are looting a store during the 1992 riots. The officer berates Millie by saying, "I'm going to put you in hell." But he doesn't seem to realize that Millie's life is already hell when she recognizes that her children do not even know that what they are doing is wrong in looting the store.In the wake of the Rodney King trial, where four L.A. police officers were acquitted after nearly beating a man to death with the attack captured on video, a tragic set of riots ensued in South Central L.A. Filmmaker Deniz Gamze Ergüven tries to put a human face on the riots with the caring foster mother Millie Dunbar and her children. But a problem is that there are so many children and confusing subplots that it difficult to follow the chain events as depicted in the film.One of the curious plot strands is the relationship of Millie and a kind neighbor named Odie Hardison (Daniel Craig). There was clearly a romantic subtext between Odie and Millie, but on multiple occasions, the connection between the neighbors became farcical. This was especially true on the second occasion when Millie was handcuffed by the policemen, who sped off and left her in cuffs. Odie then performed a spectacular Houdini-like feat in freeing them from the cuffs.The film was successful in showing how South Central became an inferno in 1992. It also framed the melodramatic family story effectively with footage from the Rodney King beating and the senseless shooting of Latasha Harlins by a proprietor in a grocery store. The central image of fire was well developed during the tragedy. The film is dedicated to the memory of Ryan De'Juan Dunbar, who lost his life during the riots.

charleshowler That very first scene gave me the chills! Something very few movies I've seen can accomplish - and I watch several movies a day as a Content Previewer for work. This movie is incredibly underrated, and I can see why critics have been bashing it. A lot of the people writing negative reviews go into this movie with expectations, specifically political expectations. People wanted to see an accurate depiction of the 1992 L.A riots, but were given something different. You have a view this film a cinematic piece as opposed to pro black lives matter sympathetic film or whatever political agenda people might assume this film is trying to push.The first scene in this title gave me a shiver down my spine. The combination of cinematography, directing and the acting had the perfect chemistry. You could tell that the director really wanted to capture the most finer details, encapsulating human emotion from traumatic experiences. The character development was a slow burn, but burned right. It was a very unpredictable film hence why you should go see it with no expectations. I've personally never heard of this director before, or the writer. So this is completely an unbiased perspective of this fine film.I definitely recommend seeing it.

adonis98-743-186503 The life of a foster family in South Central Los Angeles, a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial. I'm very disappointed with the material that Halle Berry chooses this days and the same goes for Daniel Craig, both actors are stuck in this slow burn of a drama that goes on and on and it's just boring from start to finish with the 2 leads "disappearing" at times and some teen (and not so good of performers) taking the spotlight that makes things even worse. Overall Kings is the kind of movie that showcases how both of those actors (Halle the most) have fallen and from films like Skyfall and X-Men: Days of Future Past star in a film like Kings. (0/10)