Esse filme me machucou de várias maneiras possíveis, uma miscelânea de várias situações de racismo, como pano de fundo a revolta de Los Angeles, mas por outro lado deixou meu coração quentinho com o amor e caridade nos atos e gestos de Millie Dunbar, por mais pessoas assim, e Daniel Craig está ótimo como o vizinho valente beberrão e depois com as crianças, fofo… Por fim, se torna leve e divertido, me meio a toda revolta, e ocasionalmente angustiante, as crianças desconsertante…

Look: films depicting such racially charged and pivotal events dripping with so much emotion will always get a free pass to some extent when exploring worthy themes with good intentions. One cannot really do that with this one, whether or not it is situated around the Rodney King violence and resulting riots. This is because the result of this project is a product so startlingly inept that it honestly immunizes itself from any piteous treatment that films like these would often benefit from. Let's start with the positives: Craig and Berry. Good actors, very good. How the mighty can fall. Just a shame that the roles both play are crafted ridiculously without a care for good plotting or characterization. We receive one of the most half-baked romances including an absolutely pointless sexual dream sequence with no point of reference or context whatsoever. Speaking of romance, the love triangle involving one of Berry's character's wards is equally uncalled for and melodramatic. Instead of an earnest view of true, important events, the audience is made to sit through an appalling orgy of random storylines set against a backdrop of this tension. Safe yourself the trouble.

It fell short on reflecting the events and the frustration of the people after Rodney King case I think. However it was a standard drama with amazing actors. Halle Berry is just fantastic.

I believe it concerns the absurdity of existence in such a threatening environment. The romantic comedy part was just an unsuccessful juxtapositioning of opposing emotions pointing towards our inability to match our own crisis.

Taken away the historical cut scenes, what's the movie even about? I was hoping to see something with substance and sadly the whole film is hectic and made me vainly wait for it to calm down and begin to tell a story. Only a catwalk for the two stars of the cast. (Mauro Lanari)

I liked the story. couple things didn't really make sense but overall I get it.

I gave it a higher rating than I normally would have given it because the other ratings are way too low and unwarranted. Unless I hear from Millie Dunbar or the likes of Mille, that this was a disastrous take on their lives, in their community, I will not judge it so harshly. Who am I to judge a lifestyle that, thanks to social media, I know is possible. Many black woman hustle, bond with their kids, make mistakes, desire companionship, help others while neglecting self, and do all this without knowing they are suffering from depression. This type of lifestyle, environment, and racial injustice can affect the kids. I watched this movie and enjoyed it because I took it for what it was...one story, one raw perspective of cause and effect. There is less whitewashing with this movie than with The Hate U Give movie. While it is not perfect, it is not horrible...how can it be if people had this experience. As foreign and unrealistic as it may be to those who are clueless to the way non-white privileged people live, it is very real for those who live it.

Hard to stay focused. The director missed an opportunity to develop a great story.

Don't waste your life on this movie

The movie was all over the place. Had potential to be really good but terrible story line. Could have left so much stuff out & added way more regarding the Rodney King story.

Time I’ll never get back, don’t even bother watching. Movie doesn’t make sense and all over the place, really wish I never watched it

I knew it was rough. This was wow

good movie didn't like the ending

Kings has an interesting story and some of the performances are decent but overall the editing and the pacing of the movie are a mess. Nothing really happens until the last 15 minutes of the movie. The pacing is terrible which makes the movie feel a lot longer than it is. It’s a shame the actors seem committed in the movie has good intentions and a good story but the execution could be better.

Kings has an interesting story and some of the performances are decent but overall the editing and the pacing of the movie are a mess. Nothing really happens until the last 15 minutes of the movie. The pacing is terrible which makes the movie feel a lot longer than it is. It’s a shame the actors seem committed in the movie has good intentions and a good story but the execution could be better.

Not a good movie very jumbled

Totally baffled by how this got such poor ratings. This was one of the most uniquely interesting and endearing stories I've seen in a while. I have not seen many stories around this chaotic and culturally stressful period on our history. I thought it was great.

Sorry but Halle Berry has presented herself as the beauty queen in one two many films for the public to buy that she is a working class foster mom. It's going to take more than a head of curls and casual wardrobe to make her believable. Also, what the hell is Daniel Craig doing is South Central LA; I ain't buying it. May be this well intended drama would have worked if the actors were unknown and certainly not two sex symbols.

Good start but quickly went down. Disappointing totally.

Movies like "Kings" are among the most poorly conceived projects of the indie film world. The routine story of a large foster family living in South Central Los Angeles is weak even when taken at face value, but set it against the backdrop of the 1992 Rodney King riots and it feels far more exploitative and distasteful than sincere. It begs the question if the goal of making this film was rooted in pious good intentions or more of a burning desire to earn film festival acclaim. My money's on the latter. Halle Berry is Millie, a charitable woman with a big heart who takes in needy foster children. With half a dozen charges living under her small roof, she attracts the ire of next door neighbor Obie (Daniel Craig), a burly guy who sure does love to drink and yell a lot. The characters are so underdeveloped that this is the extent of their onscreen personalities. As the Rodney King trial consumes Los Angeles, racial tensions are on the rise. Soon the acquittal of the group of white police officers who beat King sparks a series of destructive riots that rapidly spread across the city. Instead of seizing the opportunity to tell a compelling story about how these African-Americans attempt to deal with the stresses of racism at the mercy of authority figures, they're mostly ignored in favor of an unfocused, undisciplined, melodramatic mess. Instead of giving audiences something meaningful and eerily timely to reflect upon, the film is plagued with incoherence and a shocking lack of poignancy. There's a lot of screaming and bloody violence, but the film fails to capture the real anger of a city divided. The overacting gets turned up to an 11 as the film goes on, with repetitive scenes of Berry grabbing her head while bursting into tears and Craig continuing to yell a lot. There's a subplot about the younger kids joining in with the looters (that's tastelessly played for laughs) and Millie's older teen son Jesse (Lamar Johnson) getting caught up in a deadly love triangle. None of these plot points help things, especially when paired with the increasingly disheveled storytelling structure. The tone of the film is all over the place, bouncing around willy-nilly from serious drama to emotional romance to family sitcom to laid back comedy. The low points come in the form of an extremely uncomfortable (and out of place) sexy dream sequence and a parking lot escape scene where Obie and Millie are handcuffed to a light pole that's just plain...strange. Inopportune attempts at jokes are awkward. The movie is disturbing, but in all the wrong ways. A SCREEN ZEALOTS REVIEW