英国王室的成员因为一次意外，全部去世了。皇室后继无人，却惊喜发现民间还有一名皇室后裔。这个人就是拉尔夫（约翰•古德曼 John Goodman饰），他热爱摇滚，喜欢无拘束的生活。然而让他去当国王，却有点违背他本性——果然，进入白金汉宫后，拉尔夫完全不了解各种礼仪仪式，闹了不少笑话，幸得老勋爵薛杜尔相助教导。
议会会长对拉尔夫极为不满，收买了脱衣舞女米兰德来勾引拉尔夫企图破坏拉尔夫声誉，迫其退位。果然米兰德却与拉尔夫相谈甚欢。有外国来访，拉尔夫忘记礼仪大出洋相，不料外国元首却偏偏喜欢这种自由的风气。英国政府希望拉尔夫与芬兰公主成就一桩政治婚姻，拉尔夫却因为米兰德的出现搞砸了这个计划。或许，拉尔夫根本就无心这个宫廷内。
Former Green Beret Louis Stevens returns to his hometown of Miami after completing military service in Brazil, only to learn that his old high school has become a haven for gangs and drug dealers. After Stevens uses his capoeira skills to kick several drug dealers off of the school property, Kerrigan, one of Stevens' old teachers, sees the impact that Stevens has on the students. Kerrigan gives him the task of teaching Capoeira to a handful of the worst at-risk students at the school.
Stuart Gordon, considered a master of the horror genre thanks to classics like Re-Animator and Dagon, decides to do a different move in this strange trip to human morals.
"King of the Ants" is about a regular guy, Sean Crawley(newcomer Chris McKenna), a man without any aspiration who just live in his apartment doing the necessary job to live to the next day. In one of his jobs he meets Duke(Gearge Wendt), who introduces Sean to his boss, Ray Matthews(played by Daniel Baldwin). Ray hires Sean as a spy, and orders him to follow Eric Gatlin(Roy Livingstone), an accountant who has been investigating Ray's company. Problems start when Ray, while drunk, orders Sean to kill Eric. And he does it. Things go wrong when Ray decides to make Sean disappear destroying his mind with violent punishment and humiliation.
From the point where Sean kills Eric, we go in the same boat with him, as he goes through a downward spiral of human degradation, traveling from guilt, to confusion and finally to his rebirth, in a state where humanity, morals and values are not important anymore. Chris McKenna acting is very important because he manages to be likable even when he is part of gruesome acts, both as victim and/or criminal. He has that look of innocence that hides a dark side and he manages to carry the film.
The support cast also includes Kari Wuhrer, as Eric's widow who also becomes a central part of Sean's trip to hell. She gives a fine performance, although it's obvious that Sean is the main character. He is the most developed of all and McKenna's performance is up to the challenge.
The film has very disturbing images of violence, and while it may not be as graphic as "Kill Bill" for example, the strength of the violence is in the lack of humanity that the character manifest. He is more than an ant in this world. He is the king.
Stuart Gordon has managed to create a film that, while maybe it's not one of his best efforts; it's very well done, has a VERY interesting story to tell, and manages to capture the attention every second of it.
