Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Matt Greene Much like Rupert Pupkin steadily working his way into Jerry Langford's life, The King of Comedy is making its way up my personal Scorsese list. It's study of loneliness, fantasy, and celebrity is so acute and palpable, with De Niro giving one of his best performances in a career full of best performances. As unsettling as it is hilarious, and that final comedy act…it's just everything.

Alan Smithee Esq. This prominent actor and acclaimed director have worked on several films together and they're all great. But this one seems to get forgotten which is understandable given some of the other movies they've done. This is just more proof that these two can do any kind of movie together not just violent ones. This a must see for fans of dark humor.

eagandersongil We have a movie that is very relaxed, is very light despite being opposed with an appealingly heavy idea, it has a very good script and great rhythm besides dialogues and scenes that remember the Scorsese style well, although it is a whole construction of A comedy movie, in moments he looks like a mafia movie. We have a script that tells the story of Rupert Pumpkin, a man who dreams of being a comedy idol, he kidnaps one of today's greatest comedians, and forces him to take part in his show. It is a constructive script, has an excellent character construction, is a growing and extremely linear script, although it splits into scenes of Rupert's imagination with reality, this may confuse a bit because Scorsese does not change the picture or any aspect that shows Being an imagination, this is good because it privileges the viewer who is more inside the film. The moral of the film is to talk a bit more about the obsession of fame, we run the risk of arrest for a successful night, it also criticizes people who idolize artists by putting them on pedestals common people. We have a dark photograph, with that gray film, it even recalls a mafia movie - not Scorsese's - but we have a touch of humor and irony, we do not have that typical Scorsese rhythm, on the contrary, a good edition, but nothing surprising . Robert De Niro does a very cool acting, he is very fluent, and he does a very good acting but very funny, he is the only one, because the secondary characters are weak. Finally, we have a good comedy movie, with jokes that do not work nowadays, but it's a very clever comedy, and it just proves that Scorsese has a gigantic scope, ranging from comedy to horror.

Leofwine_draca Robert De Niro's performance as an obsessed fan (a role he would later return to, albeit in a darker, more murderous fashion, in THE FAN) shines through in this unusual Martin Scorsese comedy-cum-drama which shares elements with TAXI DRIVER. THE KING OF COMEDY is undoubtedly a brilliant film which was misunderstood and shunned by most audiences on first release (later even by Scorsese himself), which resulted in it being a flop. This is a shame for a number of reasons.First of all, the acting is top-notch. Method man De Niro shines as the lowly Rupert Pupkin, creating a truly memorable character when he converses in his bedroom with cardboard cut-outs and imagines himself as a television great. On top of this there's a fine "straight man" role from Jerry Lewis, the object of Pupkin's growing obsession, and the two get to share some fine moments - particularly when Pupkin breaks into Lewis' country mansion later in the film. Female support comes from an understated Diahnne Abbott as Pupkin's love interest, and Sandra Bernhard as a fellow mentally unstable fan whose role is alternatively funny and rather tragic. A seasoned troupe of veteran performers largely play themselves and add to the movie's realism.Scenes in which Pupkin tries to infiltrate Langford's offices and finds himself repeatedly shunned are a delight to watch, and both dramatic and pretty funny with it. The twist ending, in which Pupkin achieves his fame IN SPITE of everything that has happened, will leave you scratching your head and wondering if this is another dream-fantasy from Pupkin's mind or whether it really did happen. In any case, the pairing of two talented men - Scorsese as director and De Niro as star - once again makes for unmissable entertainment, a film which you can't take your eyes off the screen when watching. A totally unique cross between black comedy and psychological drama, this both scary and funny, a feat often difficult to achieve, and I don't know of any other movie quite like it out there.