King of New York 🎥 1990 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Frank White, a drug lord, strives to control New York City’s criminal underground. Shortly after his release from Sing Sing Penitentiary, White and his crew, led by his trigger-happy right-hand man Jimmy Jump, consolidate power by eliminating their rivals in the Colombian drug cartel and Triad. White personally executes a Mafia boss who refuses to cooperate with him. White’s exploits catch the attention of the NYPD’s narcotics squad. Detectives Bishop, Gilley and Flanigan confront White but lack any tangible evidence to arrest him. They instead turn their attention to White’s henchmen, whom they arrest after a surviving member of the Colombian drug cartel agrees to cooperate with the police.

White’s lawyers intervene and free the men from jail. Gilley and Flanigan, extremely frustrated at White’s use of the law to dodge justice, decide to simply murder White and his crew. They storm a night club where White is partying and kill many of his men. White and Jump survive the raid but are chased by Gilley and Flanigan. Jump ambushes and mortally wounds Flanigan. Gilley is unable to resuscitate his partner, and shoots Jump in the head in a fit of rage. A grief-stricken Gilley attends Flanigan’s funeral, where he is abruptly assassinated by White in a drive-by shooting. White then confronts detective Bishop in his own apartment.

He holds him at gunpoint while explaining that he eliminated the Colombian drug cartel and Triad in New York City because he disapproved of their involvement in human trafficking and child prostitution. White restrains Bishop to a chair and leaves. Bishop uses a gun in from nearby drawer and frees himself and chases White into the subway. Both men draw guns on each other, but White uses an innocent bystander as a human shield. The two exchange gunfire and Bishop is killed. White exits the subway and makes his way to a taxi in Times Square.

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