The gritty underbelly of New York's complex, ethnically divided criminal world is exposed in this dark drama from director Abel Ferrara. Christopher Walken stars as Frank White, a drug lord who's just been released from a long stint in prison. Aware that feeding off of society's depravity has made him a wealthy man, Frank has become determined to give something back to the city, and he hatches a scheme to build a multimillion-dollar public hospital in one of Brooklyn's worst ghetto neighborhoods. Needing the assistance of his fellow criminals to pull it off, Frank and his adjutant Jimmy Jump (Laurence Fishburne) encounter a wall of resistance from every faction, including drug-trade partner Lance Wong (Joey Chin) and temperamental cop Dennis Gilley (David Caruso). Frank's do-gooder efforts ultimately result in a Mob war and in a bloody showdown between the city's various ethnic criminal actions. Ferrara followed King of New York with a similarly themed film that many critics considered his masterpiece, Bad Lieutenant (1992). Karl Williams, Rovi
- Genre: Crime & Espionage
- Category Gangster Film, Crime Thriller
- Theme: Criminal's Revenge, Drug Trade
- Studio: Live/Artisan
- Run Time: 01 hr 46 min
- Language: English
- Subtitle Language: English, Spanish
- Picture Format: widescreen
- Format: DVD
- Release Date: April 20, 2004
- Lead Actor: David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes, Christopher Walken
- Supporting Actor: Steve Buscemi, Paul Calderon, Giancarlo Esposito, Joey Chin, Janet Julian, James Lorinz, Erica Gimpel, Harold Perrineau Jr., Peter Richardson, Wendell Sweda, Frank Gio, Michael Guess, Ariane, Gary Landon Mills, Gerard Murphy, Ernest Abuba, Robert La Sardo, Nancy Hunter, Frank Adonis, Theresa Randle, Leonard Thomas, Roger Guenveur Smith, Carrie Nygren, Sari Chang, Vanessa Angel, Phoebe Legere, Pete Hamill, Jack Goode Jr.
- Director: Abel Ferrara
