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alan g The best Woody Harrelson movie. Vanessa Angel is very good. She was the Sydney Sweeney of her generation. Bill Murray sucks as usual. Brings the whole movie down. Score was great. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/28/25 Full Review thiago s Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/27/25 Full Review colin p An underappreciated classic Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/14/25 Full Review Peter R Completely unfunny. The jokes are as predictable as they are puerile. Do yourself a favor and watch literally anything else. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/22/25 Full Review Angelo G 😂 Cool bowling movie and has a lot of funny moments. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/12/25 Full Review David J One of the Greats. A Dirty, Beautiful, Sad Little Masterpiece There’s something about Kingpin that stays with you, like the smell of stale beer in a rented bowling shoe, or a sad little combover trembling in the breeze. On the surface, it’s crude, juvenile, full of Farrelly Brothers filth. But look a little closer and it’s actually a film about disappointment, compromise, and crawling your way back from total failure, all while being absolutely, ridiculously hilarious. Woody Harrelson is brilliant as Roy Munson: a man who peaks too early, loses everything, and is left bitter, broke, and sporting a prosthetic hand that gets more action than he does. He plays it with this pitch-perfect mix of weariness and stubborn optimism. He knows he’s pathetic, but he still dares to hope, and that’s kind of devastating, in the best way. Then you’ve got Randy Quaid as Ishmael, a sweet, naive Amish man who’s never seen a bowling ball in his life but somehow throws strikes. Quaid leans into the physical comedy, but never at Ishmael’s expense, he makes him endearing, not just a punchline. You end up rooting for him in a way you didn’t expect. And then, Bill Murray. God-tier chaos. Big Ern McCracken is everything awful about fame, ego, and sportsmanship, wrapped up in a salmon silk shirt and the worst hairpiece ever committed to film. Murray improvises most of it, and you can feel the glee radiating off him in every scene. He’s a monster, but a magnetic one. When he bowls that final frame with the crowd chanting his name? You hate him. And you love him for it. Vanessa Angel holds her own amongst the madness, smart, sharp, never quite what you expect from the “love interest” role. She’s not just eye candy, she’s another hustler, trying to survive in a game full of losers and liars. What makes Kingpin special is that it doesn't care if it's ugly. It embraces the failure, the grime, the weirdos, and still manages to be kind. It’s about people who’ve been chewed up by life, but are still reaching for something, even if it’s just a plastic trophy and a little self-respect. It’s gross. It’s sweet. It’s tragic. And it’s very, very funny. A perfect film, in its own broken way. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/29/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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