Critic Reviews

• Mike Clark, USA Today

  A heavyset daughter who never talks but eats a lot is named Delightful, which is supposed to be funny. That pretty much sums up the movie's comic tone.

• Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press

  While Kingdom Come follows the formula for comic combustibility, it's even more inert than Bud, who at least comes to life for a brief fantasy sequence.

• Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

  The structure and style are a staple of many traveling black stage shows ... What slays them in the second balcony, though, flattens on the screen.

• Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

  A mediocre sitcom writ large.

• Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

  Manages to be profound without being pompous.

• John Zebrowski, Seattle Times

  Despite an appealing cast that includes Toni Braxton and Cedric The Entertainer, Kingdom Come won't leave you with a happy feeling -- and it may just leave you feeling surly.

• David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

  ...a well-intentioned yet wholly misguided piece of work that effectively wastes its talented cast...

• Jean Lowerison, San Diego Metropolitan

  There's nothing original about this film, but it does boast a solid anchor in Goldberg and include some pretty good acting around her.

• Margaret A. McGurk, Cincinnati Enquirer

  The script, like the direction by Doug McHenry, relies too heavily for comic effect on broad comic contrivances and high-volume arguments.

• Marshall Fine, Journal News (Westchester, NY)

  It takes this stock situation and gives it moments of discovery, as well as an emotional showiness that's sometimes hard to resist.

• Ted Murphy, Baseline.Hollywood.com

  With its universal themes, Kingdom Come offers a great deal to enjoy, from its stellar cast to its entertaining screenplay

• Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com

  Something is amiss when gentleness is the most memorable element of the film that desperately wants to be a rollicking gutbuster.

• David Noh, Film Journal International

  As performed by a wonderful all-star cast, this hybrid low comedy and heart-tugging soap opera proves richly entertaining.

• Cynthia Fuchs, Philadelphia City Paper

  Develops an uncommonly warm and compassionate tone.

• Dwayne E. Leslie, Boxoffice Magazine

  It is difficult to find anything interesting about the onscreen bickering and distress concerning repeatedly harped-upon issues.

• , BeatBoxBetty.com

  The script and plot become far too predictable -- to the point that the audience knows exactly where it's going to go and reluctantly follows it.

• Luke Y. Thompson, New Times

  The all-star ensemble of Kingdom Come overcome most of the bumps in their path.

• Dave White, IFilm

  Awful because it's full of archaic stereotypes, glaringly bad performances and enough Parent 'Hood-ish sitcom yuks to give Spike Lee an arm-length list of reasons to make Bamboozled 2 in response.

• Gemma Files, eye WEEKLY

  The comedy sequences are routinely played for the very broadest sort of slapstick, which makes its abrupt attempts to switch gears back into genuine dramatic emotion-mode all the more impossible to sustain.

• Stephen Miller, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  LL Cool J and his co-stars, Devine and Goldberg, fare better than their castmates, all of whom deserve stronger material than screenwriters David Dean Bottrell and Jessie Jones's predictable, forgiveness-themed script provides.

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