Rotten
[Seymour's] story demands a larger meaning, a sense of the poetic, than mere heart-tugging can provide, but Rosenfeld cannot provide it.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
King of the Jungle
He was just a kid in a man's body until his mother's killer made him a man with a gun.
2000 · 1h 27m · R
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
Overview
Seymore is a young man with the mind of a child. He loves three things in life: basketball, sneaking out for cigarettes, and his mother. But all life's simple pleasures are brutally torn from him when he witnesses his mother gunned down by a neighborhood punk. Now Seymore must overcome the child within as he rises up to fight for some kind of justice. It's a fight that will take him out into the streets where there are few friends and many enemies -- and one of them is a killer who wants him silenced.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
24%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A hard, vibrant surface can't quite cover the mossy, skimpy center of this story.
Gene Seymour, Newsday
Rotten
One of those films that feel drunk on their own virtue.
Jonathan Foreman, New York Post
Fresh
[Rosenfeld] finds a way to convey messiness that gives King an honest and particular heartbeat.
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times
Rotten
Old-fashioned in good ways and bad.
Mark Holcomb, Village Voice
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