Street Kings (Special Edition + Digital Copy) David Ayer Digital Life DVD

Street Kings (Special Edition + Digital Copy)
starring: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Cedric the Entertainer
directed by: David Ayer

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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543527503
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 19, 2008
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sales Rank: 9643
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: April 11, 2008

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Gripping performances by Keanu Reeves, Academy AwardÂ(r) Winner Forest Whitaker* and an all-star supporting cast power this action-packed crime thriller, in which a veteran cop finds himself ensnared in a deadly web of conspiracy and betrayal. Reeves stars as Tom Ludlow, a hard-nosed detective with a talent for delivering brutal street justice. When evidence implicates him in the murder of a fellow officer, the violence around Ludlow explodes as he realizes his own life is in danger and he can trust no one.

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Street Kings is a pungent bouquet of corruption, violence, multi-ethnic mayhem, macho glee laced with macho angst, and fluorescently obscene dialogue from the mind of James Ellroy. Its hero, though he'd scarcely consent to be called one, is L.A. police detective Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves), for whom life is a wound that won't heal and dealing out retribution to scumbags is the ongoing treatment. Ludlow's the star player--'the tip of the [expletive] spear'--on a team of detectives headed by Capt. Jack Wander (Forest Whitaker). Coach Wander relies on his boys to keep breaking lurid cases, usually through deeply darkside underground work, and raising his profile with the media and the department. In pursuit of these goals, nothing is forbidden except failure, and the truth is what you make it look like. This is familiar Ellroy territory, most effectively translated to the screen in L.A. Confidential (which should have won the 1997 Oscar, and would have if Titanic hadn't launched that year). If you know Ellroy's ground game, you can pretty much guess where Street Kings is going, and where it's been. Still, the twists and torques of its urban road-rage course maintain the centrifugal force needed to hold us in our seats (a tactical highlight: refrigerator adapted as rolling barricade), and the movie keeps bopping us with oddball casting coups: comic Jay Mohr and Northern Exposure/Sex and the City veteran John Corbett as two members of Coach Warden's gonzo detective squad; Cedric the Entertainer doing a nicely nuanced turn as a street creature; Hugh Laurie doing a less-hyper version of House, if House worked Internal Affairs.

The problem is that director David Ayer keeps everything intense. Dialogues are shot too close-up, line readings are too strident, the action is too nonstop slam. Recall Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confidential and the mind's eye summons up a whole spectrum of existence, mood, place, historical period, emotional investment; there's an amplitude to the picture and the sensibility bringing it to us, something besides the whodunit and the endless rap sheet of nasty what-they-done. Everything in Street Kings is one-note, and with Keanu Reeves playing it implosive and Forest Whitaker locked in crazier-than-an-outhouse-rat mode, that's no way to stay the course. --Richard T. Jameson

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- Street Kingz Review
If you were a fan of "Training Day", the TV series "The Shield", or just wanna see how Keanu Reeves portrays a corrupt, killing machine, LA cop then this is your flick.

Overall, a surprisingly good mystery moving, action packed movie.

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- Don't Even Bother
This movie was so supremely disappointing. It was a convoluted mess. Keanu Reeves should stick to roles where he's not required to talk. When he opens his mouth his words sound like they were pre-recorded in a dark black hole. Stupid dialog, an unbelievable plot, contrived antagonism, and some of the worst acting I've seen since Arnold Schwarzenegger polluted the screen. These men are not "Street Kings" they are "Street Trash." Bad cops killing bad cops and the worst of the bad cops growing a conscience as he hunts down his own bad cop buddies. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

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- keanu a cop?
loved keanu! couldn't image him as a cop, but he was great. He gets better with every picture. Movie has a good story line, hard to follow at first. had to watch several times to hear everything and catch every-thing. good character for keanu. good maybe for a second movie! It's nice to know that maybe men have a hard time getting over things in life. looking forward to his new movie coming next - the day the earth stood still. perfect part for mysterious keanu. I've seen the preview and it looks fantastic! Can't wait! Bette

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