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| Director: David Ayer
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Cedric The Entertainer
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  81 reviews
Sales Rank: 11109
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dubbed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 109 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 2252590
UPC: 024543525905
EAN: 0024543525905
ASIN: B001BP4K2M
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: August 19, 2008
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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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| Customer Reviews: Read 76 more reviews...
 Street Kings July 3, 2009
Jeanne Arnold
Have been looking forward to this movie since learning Hugh Laurie
was in it. Was very pleased to see Hugh do something so different from
his comedy from England & House TV Show. He was great, as usual. Was
very pleased to receive this in such a timely fashion & in such excellent
condition. Look forward to using this source in the future for more purchases.
street kings June 24, 2009
CRUCIFIX (U.S.A)
I'M NOT A HUGE KEANU REEVES FAN, HE HAS BEEN IN A COUPLE MOVIES I LIKE, FOR INSTANCE " THE MATRIX ". BUT I HAVE TO SAY THAT I THINK THIS IS ONE OF HIS BEST PERFORMANCES IN ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES HE HAS BEEN IN. THE MOVIE ALSO HAS A REAL STRONG SUPORTING CAST AND A GREAT SCRIPT. YOU ADD GOOD DIRECTING AND IT WAS ONE OF 2008'S BEST 100 MOVIES. IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT, YOU WON'T REGRET IT, SEE THIS MOVIE.
A fine performance from Keanu Reeves June 14, 2009
Charles Jannuzi
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If I could give this film half stars, I would give this 3 1/2, but it is better than my typical 3.
This one has a re'sume' that harkens back to 'L.A. Confidential'. Indeed, its plot seems a lot like a modern update on a lot of the same issues concerning urban police and their relationship to a violent society. However, once you update the story to modern day, racist dialogue can seem very offensive. I thought this film displayed some racism towards Asians and Latins that is now dangerously cliche'd, especially after we got a heavy dose of the cliche's about Asians in the inferior, much over-rated 'Departed'.
This is a better film than 'Departed', somewhat. It is not of the quality of 'L.A. Confidential', however. One reason is that 'L.A. Confidential' displayed a number of characters coming together to solve a case, despite all their differences. This film attempts to evoke some of that, with the main character ending up in a reluctant working partnership with a younger detective. But the story never really gels around their relationship.
This is very much a Keanu Reeves star vehicle. I think the film must have appealed to him because in a way this is an update on some of his earlier roles playing law enforcement, such as 'Point Break' and 'Speed'. Here he plays a character that might have started out as gungo-ho and straight-laced but ends up corrupted by a brutal sense of justice.
However, since TV has provided so much material for cops as human beings, faults and all (Homicide, the Shield, the Wire), this genre for feature films may be reaching its end.
 Training Day II June 6, 2009
phoong dan (International)
They could have simply called this Training Day II because there really wasn't any "fresh" ground covered in this film that Training Day didn't already cover in that film. I mean crooked cops, a "special unit" that is ran by a higher-up that is into murder and drug dealing, etc. The role played by Keanu is slightly different than the role that was played in Training Day, but not enough to warrant anything special with this film.
And the story was so very predictable. I won't give away the plot, nor do I need to, if your IQ is over 85 you should be able to pick up on it quite easily - they certainly make it transparent enough!
Okay so the acting was decent, and there were some action scenes here and there but again, it's all so very predictable. Cops shooting it out with other cops. *Yawn* Seen this many times before!
One of the best since Training Day..... June 3, 2009
C. Davis (Bay Area)
It would be easy to dismiss this as another "bad cop turns good / gets a conscience" movies but believe me there is much more to this than one might guess. A top notch cast all-around - especially great supporting roles turned in by Forest Whitaker and Hugh Laurie - make this one of the best police dramas since Training Day. Just enough plot twists to keep you guessing and thoroughly entertained - a definite must see !
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