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Message from the King
2016
· Movie
· 102 min
D
MEANRANK
57/100
Every rating
40–68
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 40, highest is AlloCiné on 68. Critics average 40, everyone else 61.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A quiet but formidable man from South Africa arrives in Los Angeles to find his younger sister. When he discovers she has been murdered, he embarks on a methodical and brutal week-long mission of vengeance against the seedy underworld figures responsible for her death.
Details
- Director
- Fabrice Du Welz
- Writers
- Oliver Butcher, Stephen Cornwell
- Released
- 10 May 2017
- Country
- Belgium, Canada, United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Budget
- $10.0M
- Box office
- $315.1K
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