For a movie with such lurid subject matter set in such a lurid industry, "King Cobra" is bit....ahem....limp.There's plenty of drama to be mined from this real life story about a young up-and-coming (excuse the pun) porn star and a murder that he doesn't commit but of which he is indirectly the motive. But the whole thing never works up much heat, and the result is that it feels somewhat irrelevant. I feel guilty for saying that, since a real person was murdered in the middle of this mess, but the film never made me care much about any of the narcissistic people swirling around this film's plot. For what it's worth, the person I cared the most for was the murdered man, a porn producer played in the film's best performance by Christian Slater, of all people. He develops a real character out of this material, and gives a wonderfully sad portrayal of a man past his prime in an industry in which the expiration date on men is much earlier that it is anywhere else. Everyone else plays a caricature, and James Franco in particular hammers another nail in the coffin of my tolerance for him.Included in the cast but utterly wasted are Alicia Silverstone and Molly Ringwald, as a mom and sister, respectively, but I suppose a movie about the gay porn industry doesn't leave much room for women, does it?Grade: C+

Well-produced but how much is true? Brent Corrigan disowns the film. Apparently his only contribution was to agree to the use of his name. The ending, with declarations of love and Ave Maria on the soundtrack, was over-the-top. (viewed 3/17)

I watched because I like crime shows. This one was set in the gay porn industry and a young man (very well played by eye candy Garrett Clayton) made famous by it and his unscrupulous producer. The movie was combination story about the young man's ascent in the porn industry, murder of one of the protagonists, a rival producer and his lover. 2 central plots around each of the 2 producers lives that converge at the murder. I thought all the male actors were good in this especially Clayton that is convincing, starting the movie off as a naive youth and in the end maturing into a clever man - nicely done. It was off beat for sure but I liked it.I think male nudity would have been gratuitous. Franco held in balance the crime story and male sexuality well in this movie.

I love James Franco, but have no idea why he took on a ridiculously unimportant story of some gay teen porn star who is involved in some silly murder that makes no sense. Acting was ghastly of the entire cast, including poor Christian Slater and James Franco is only screaming f***, f***, f***! Horrible! The screenwriter must have been asleep or on crack, as there is really not a single dialogue in this movie that is funny or clever.What a waste of time and money!Save yourself! And to all gays, this is a joke of a movie, guys! Do yourself a favor and boycott this awful movie!