The Forgotten Christopher Walken Crime Film You Can Find On Amazon

There's a lot to love about "King of New York." Three decades later, the cast is beyond iconic. Alongside Walken, the film features performances from Laurence Fishburne, Wesley Snipes, Giancarlo Esposito, Steve Buscemi, and the world's quippiest sunglass dispenser, David Caruso. From a contemporary perspective, it's bonkers that this movie only made back half its budget at the box office.

Then again, critics seemed perplexed — bamboozled, even — by "King of New York." The New York Times gave the movie four stars, praising Abel Ferrara for his ability to work "unapologetically in B-movie territory ... with A-movie style." Variety, equal parts impressed and in possession of a thesaurus, called the film "a balletic orgy of bloodletting." On the other side of the aisle, The Washington Post decried it as "a hepped-up film about drugs that plays as if the filmmakers themselves kept a healthy supply of the stuff at hand" and referred to the whole endeavor as "'Miami Vice' but without Crockett and Tubbs." 

Art is subjective. If you feel like picking a camp for yourself, you can check out "King of New York" on Amazon Prime right this minute.