Review of Suicide Kings (1997) by Lee P — 17 Mar 2008

Charlie Barret: Guys, if I don't bleed to death pretty soon, I'm gonna die of boredom.

3 things that make this work well.

1. Chris Walken (of course).

2. Unnecessary, yet hilarious banter between the young costars.

3. Dennis Leary in full asshole mode as a hitman.

Good stuff.

Christopher Walken stars as a mobster who is kidnapped by a bunch of rich kids with a plan of their own.

One of these kids' girlfriend has been kidnapped, and so they want to use Walken's connections to hopefully find the kidnappers and meet their demands.

This setup provides the opportunity for Walken to get under all of these characters skin. He is tied to a chair, with his finger cut off, but he still is able to use his verbose nature to figure things out for himself, and outwit his kidnappers.

Meanwhile, Denis Leary is a hitman, going all over New York on his own misadventures looking for these rich kids to rescue his boss.

The movie works for the three reasons I listed above, along with the fact that this is a very entertaining story full of dark humor, fine performances, and some decent twists.

Lono: Can you guess what these boots are made out of? - Stingray.

Charlie Barret: Your wearing fish boots?