Street Kings Reviews

[Highly rated reviewer]

Street Kings

Not for me, I'm afraid. Fell asleep. Didn't enjoy it at all.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Street Kings

Following the loose trilogy of L.A. Confidential, Dark Blue and Training Day it was hard not to get excited about David Ayer and James Ellroy’s involvement in another muscular film about the cops that prowl the streets of Los Angeles, especially when that film contains Forest Whitaker.

Unfortunately, this excitement was misplaced as Street Kings proves to be an utterly predictable trudge through what has come before, which is a shame because the individual parts are of a very high quality. The dialogue is as lean as you could hope for and even Keanu Reeves is competent enough (although in fairness he is out played by Whitaker, Chris Evans, Hugh Laurie and just about everyone else that walks past the camera). The issue here is the plot. Within five minutes you know exactly what is going on and are then subjected to another 100 minutes of Reeves’ (like, erm, totally) bad-ass cop playing catch up. The tedium is just plain… erm… well… tedious and there really is nothing else to say about it…

Watchable entertaining film

Street Kings reminds me of 'LA Confidential' and 'Training day'. It was gritty and exciting in places. I thought Keanu Reeves was good and convincing, although i still see him as 'Neo'.

Forest Whitaker was Forest Whitaker, on the edge of perfect. The ending was a surprise to me.

I have no idea why directors/producers keep miss-casting rapper Common, he is not an actor.

The film is laced with corruption, betrayal and revenge. I think this is a perfect film for a friday or saturday night in.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Good comeback from Keanu

So he hasn't done anything half decent since the first Matrix...until now!

This is a decent corrupt cops based thriller, with pretty good performances all round. Whittaker is great as always, and Keanu isn't quite as 'woah duuude' as he usually is, which is a nice change!

[Highly rated reviewer]

Not very good

This film contains some of the worst dialogue I have ever heard in a film!

Whoever wrote this script should be ashamed of themselves.

Keanu Reeves should be called Kean't Act

I gave this film 2 stars instead of 1 because Forest Whittaker and Chris Evans were quite good in there parts, however they were the only good parts in this film. I thought during the film that someone was going to pick up the piece of wood that is Keanu Reeves and hit a bad guy with him. He was really bad in this film. The film on the whole was bad, if i wanted to watch something with crooked cops in it i would have watched THE SHIELD tv series which is 100 times better.

Loved it...

I loved this movie, it's just my kind of cop thriller. The script was clever, action just right and the performances were above average. There was however one problem: Keanu Reeves.

Why, oh why couldn't they have cast someone who can actually act. The fact that he still gets any decent roles is really shocking.

Verdict: Great movie, shame about Keanu.

Predictable but good

Pretty solid action film, it's quite easy to work out who the corrupt guys are but it has a good pace and a few nice twists to keep you entertained.

STREET KINGS

GOOD FILM I LOVED IT

King Keanu

Surprisingly good film! Now, we like Keanu Reeves, but do appreciate that he can be in some rediculous films sometimes (quite a lot of the time!), however Street Kings is up there on his filmography in our opinion, as being in the Average - Above Average league.

Keanu is a cop in a district involved with lots of bent cops, but who can be trusted? The story is written by the man who wrote LA Confidential which is of a similar theme, however Street Kings is very present day.