King of the Jungle

Overall, King of the Jungle never quite achieves a necessary, culminating insight about charity, or mercy -- though Leguizamo's performance puts one in reach.

Mr. Rosenfeld is a writer whose talent shines through in the way he harvests minute pearls.

Story's spurts of violence are designed to tear Seymour's world apart , but Rosenfeld's scripting and directing choices tend to lessen impact of a potentially gut-wrenching urban tale.

May be the biggest gathering of high-decibel performers in one movie. But they work well together and some are truly excellent.

Rosenfeld's film doesn't have much of a story to tell and tells it rather routinely.

The merely depressing ultimately gives way to the contrived in Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's King of the Jungle.

Leguizamo is all twitches and spasms; there's not a bit of subtlety in his high-wire performance. By the time you get past it, the film bogs down in dime-store potboiling.