Street Kings (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

Street Kings (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]
by David Ayer

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Actor: Cedric the Entertainer, Chris Evans, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Keanu Reeves
Director: David Ayer
Brand: 20th Century
Producer: Alexandra Milchan
Producer: Arnon Milchan
Producer: Bob Yari
Producer: Bruce Berman
Writer: James Ellroy
Writer: Jamie Moss
Writer: Kurt Wimmer
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-19
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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Movie Review: Give Back the Gun
Summary: 4 Stars

"Street Kings" is a gritty tale about police corruption. David Ayer who wrote the screenplay for "S.W.A.T." and contributed to the script of "Training Day" directs. Keanu Reeves shifts from a romantic lead in The Lake House (Widescreen Edition) to this action-packed character-based drama. Reeves has the distinction of being nominated six times for Worst Actor awards at the Razzies without ever winning [or should I say "losing"]! As Tom Ludlow, we see standard Reeves, close to his personality, intense, but interesting to watch. His boss is played by Forest Whitaker who assumes a less than likable role, similar to the award winning portrayal of Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland (Widescreen Edition). Hugh Laurie from TV's "House" plays internal affairs' Capt. Biggs. Laurie plays well in the supporting role, neither stealing the limelight nor allowing his scenes to go unnoticed. The ending reversal where he hands Ludlow back his gun is effective. Chris Evans from "The Fantastic Four" comes to this realistic drama and holds his own with Reeves as Detective Diskant. His death scene may be one of his best moments on film. Cedric the Entertainer plays Scribble who drives a vintage convertible & makes connections for Ludlow. Common who was also in "Wanted" plays the trigger-happy Coates with nervous abandon. John Corbett -- who I frequently confuse with Ben Affleck for some reason -- does a good job as Detective Dante Demille who winds up with a shank through his lip while driving. Jay Mohr from TV's "Ghost Whisperer" and who I also recently saw in Even Money does a journeyman's job as Sergeant Mike Clady. He is particularly effective as he assaults Linda Washington, a police widow, played by Naomi Harris who was in Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End (Widescreen Edition). Ludlow seems to keep getting shot or scraped and needs nursing from Grace Garcia, well played by Martha Higareda who was in Volver. "Street Kings" is a well done gritty police drama. It is shot starkly by Ayer, but moves briskly. While it is a story that has similar genre films to which it may be compared, it is a decent story well played. Enjoy!

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Summary of Street Kings (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

Disc 1: **Widescreen Feature Film **Commentary by Director David Ayer **Commentary by Forest Whitaker and Keanu Reeves **15 Deleted Scenes **10 Alternate Tracks **5 Vignettes **4 Behind The Scenes **Street Rules: Rolling with David Ayer and Jaime Fitz Simons **La Bete Noir: Writing Street Kings **Street Cred **Under Surveillance: Inside the World of Street Kings **HBO First Look- City of Fallen Angels: Making Street Kings

Disc 2: Digital Copy

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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