Kingdom Come

- Chris G.

That’s it they’ve discovered the formula….

Take a bunch of pretty black faces, place them in family related situations or have them talking about bad relationships and people will knock down the doors, leaving little kids trampled in the aisles trying to get seats.

The producers, writers, and everyone else involved with Kingdom Come, meant well… shit you have to give them credit just for being original but the final product stinks like bad poontang.

Here’s the scenario… Poppa dies. He’s the patriarch of the family, the glue that binds everyone together much like Big Momma did in Soul Food. Problem number one: you never see the guy. But I’m gonna tack that on the board as an intentional creative twist.. the director really wants to show how a family deals with the loss of a loved one.

To spice it up they throw in some comedic elements, because truthfully every family has somebody who is off the wall or a drinking problem, drug habit, uncles with kids spread throughout the states… you know, the norm.

Anthony Anderson. You know him. The heavy set, brown skin guy who ran down a flight of stairs to confront Jet Li in Romeo Must Die, saying “Ohhhh Dimmmm Summm!”

Or maybe you saw him on pay-per-view last month in that uh… Jim Carrey movie where Carrey has to raise three black kids that his wife left him with…

The point is, Anderson was cast in his part perfectly. He plays Jada Pinkett’s husband and he’s pissed off and suicidal, threatening to take her out with a hollow point through the forehead. Frustrated that he has a bonehead wife who doesn’t do shit, he wants out of the marriage. Anderson is good at being both mad and funny at the same time so he rolls right into character.

LL Cool J. Say what you want about the music he’s making these days, he’s a decent actor. He plays a mechanic named Ray Bud. Ray wants a kid badly, but his wife, played by Vivica Fox, won’t or can’t get pregnant. When you see LL peek his head from underneath the hood of a car or drowning his sorrows with a smooth Samuel Adams, he is totally believable (by the way they’re gonna pay me for that beer reference.)

The problem with the movie is the overacting: Cedric the Entertainer and Jada Pinkett;  people I don’t like.. Darius McCrary; Whoopi Goldberg, who looks like she is in the movie because somebody begged her to. Darius McCrary did make me laugh when he said that his goal in life was to get on welfare.

Man this movie is just bizarro.

I’ll give them credit for the idea, but the execution was like a Shaq free throw with 2 seconds left on the clock in game seven of a conference final playoff game. Shitty.

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