Because they are of a piece, the movie's farcical and sentimental excesses work together.
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04/11/01
Kingdom Come (2001)
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Reviews Counted:63
Fresh:18
Rotten:45
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: While it has its moments, Kingdom Come is marred by a script that's low on laughs and uneven in tone.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Whoopi Goldberg stars in KINGDOM COME as matriarch Raynelle Slocumb, whose mean-spirited husband, Ray Bud, unexpectedly falls down dead at the breakfast table in this touching and irreverent comedy... [More]
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Toni Braxton, LL Cool J, Jada Pinkett Smith
Director: Doug McHenry
Reviews for Kingdom Come
Top CriticThis is so amateurish that the cast members, whose characters are all supposed to come from the same little Southern town, don't even bother to adjust their wildly differing accents.
04/11/01
It's all too easy to see through the movie to its plot gears, and all too evident where the grinding of those gears is taking us.
04/11/01
Kingdom Come won't cause anyone to die laughing, but you should find the theme of reconciliation and redemption to be a sweet and reassuring one.
04/11/01
An engaging family portrait of real people dealing with death and one another.
04/11/01
Despite some lofty intentions, McHenry (who last directed the melodramatic Jason's Lyric) more or less keeps it sitcom superficial.
04/11/01
As well done as this film is in places, though, it's hard to be forgiving amid diarrhea jokes, hectoring, high-strung drama queens and heavy-set ladies swinging purses.
04/11/01
Not that there's anything terribly wrong with director Doug McHenry's vision of this dysfunctional group, it's just that there's nothing terribly right about it, either.
04/11/01
There's not much this gifted cast can do with the Bottrell-Jones script.
04/11/01
Another sad example of a seemingly can't-miss movie that somehow misses the mark -- and rather badly.
04/11/01
A lightweight, generally pleasant dramedy.
04/11/01
Uses broad humor and over-the-top characters to hammer its feel-good message home.
04/11/01
A hit and miss proposition, with an abundance of laughs and emotional highlights to help brighten the dimly lit corners of cliche-mongering.
04/11/01
Kingdom Come has passably funny moments, but they don't connect; it might work on video for viewers who glance up at the screen from time to time. The more attention you pay to it, the less it's there.
04/11/01
Top CriticAn ill-conceived series of vignettes in which no cliché remains unexplored, phony pathos drowns the ending and the characters are black Southern stereotypes.
04/11/01
Kingdom Come makes it on heart, not flash.
04/11/01
The broad execution of the material keeps it from being all good, but a genuine heart and occasional successes keep it from being all bad.
04/10/01
Demands high tolerance for low comedy.
04/10/01
There's nothing new in this mix of family crises, marital infidelities and long-held grudges, and little satisfaction in the easy personal triumphs.
04/10/01
A grab-bag of loosely connected scenes and lives than a film with a firm sense of direction.
04/10/01
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