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Jim Emerson April 10, 2008. Tweet. In Street Kings, based on a story by crime-lit kingpin James Ellroy, a veteran LAPD officer (Keanu Reeves, right) goes over the edge after his wife dies. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The alarm clock buzzes. Keanu Reeves wakes up fully dressed in a striped shirt, raises his gun and rolls out of bed.

Rated: 2/5 Apr 18, 2008 Full Review Diego Batlle Otroscines.com Beyond a certain on-the-nose contrast in performances and a sense of déjà vu from other movies like it, Kings of the Street is a ...

A solid contemporary crime drama. Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008. James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk. There is certainly something compelling in the film's ideas, but the way ...

Street Kings. Directed by David Ayer. Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller. R. 1h 49m. By Manohla Dargis. April 11, 2008. James Ellroy, the self-described "demon dog" of American crime fiction ...

Street Kings is a 2008 American action thriller film directed by David Ayer, and starring Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Common and The Game.The initial screenplay drafts were written by James Ellroy in the late 1990s under the title The Night Watchman.. The film was released in theaters on April 11, 2008, and was followed by a direct-to-video stand-alone sequel ...

tburke85 10 June 2009. Street Kings is a decent crime thriller with some flaws but the good outweighs the bad. Director David Ayer does an admirable job of making this movie about cops in Los Angeles. The cast are solid in their roles including Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, and Hugh Laurie.

Street Kings: Directed by David Ayer. With Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans. An undercover cop, disillusioned by the death of his wife, is implicated in the murder of an officer and must struggle to clear himself.

In Street Kings, a police thriller directed by David Ayer, Keanu Reeves plays Tom Ludlow, a veteran LAPD Vice detective. Ludlow sets out on a quest to discover the killers of his former partner, Detective Terrance Washington. Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker plays Captain Wander, Ludlow's supervisor, whose duties include keeping him within the confines of the law and out of the clutches of ...

The film opens to the nag of an alarm and we witness Neo pour himself out of bed, clutch his wrung-out face, and fetch up gobs of bile into a toilet bowl. Like woah dude. This is a good look for ...

Movie Review "We're the police. We do whatever we want. We write it up however we want." So says Los Angeles special vice detective Tom Ludlow of his hard-boiled approach to his job. For Ludlow, dispensing justice doesn't have anything to do with reading a street thug his Miranda rights. ... [Street Kings is] an urban thriller, so ...

By Cynthia Fuchs, Common Sense Media Reviewer. age 17+. Grim, brutal bad-cop drama isn't meant for kids. Movie R 2008 107 minutes. Rate movie. Parents Say: age 16+ 3 reviews.

Street Kings (United States, 2008) A movie review by James Berardinelli. Street Kings has the look and feel of an '80s cop thriller. Despite the predictability of the overall story arc, there's suspense and tension to be found between the credit sequences, but the movie is saddled with an ending that is both improbable and borderline insulting.

The gritty crime drama Street Kings ends with a fiery confrontation between veteran LAPD officer Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) and Captain Jack Wander (Forrest Whitaker) that sparks an in-depth conversation about police brutality and corruption.This pre-MCU Chris Evans thriller directed by Suicide Squad director David Ayer and also starring Hugh Laurie and Terry Crewes has been compared to ...

L.A.'s mean streets get meaner than ever in "Street Kings," and little wonder considering its pedigree. The film is directed by David Ayer, who penned the dirty-cop movie "Training Day," and based ...

Movie Review Street Kings Their City. Their Rules. No Prisoners. US Release Date: 04-11-2008. Directed by: David Ayer. Starring ▸ ▾ Keanu Reeves, as ; Detective Tom Ludlow ... Street Kings tries hard to distract the audience with plenty of action, blood and foul language, but the twists and ending can be seen from very early on. One ...

Street Kings (2008) Directed by: David Ayer Premise: A flawed police detective (Keanu Reeves) with good intentions investigates the death of a fellow officer and begins to uncover connections between the department and gangland. What Works: Street Kings is an effective police thriller in the vein of the street films of the 1960s and 70s like Shaft, The French Connection, and Dirty Harry ...

The uneven story of Street Kings is further beaten down by the horribly cliched dialogue which takes what is supposed to be a serious thriller/drama and unintentionally makes it laugh out loud funny. My all time favorite is the climatic scene between Ludlow and his boss, Captain Jack Wander (Whitaker). These guys go back and forth for ten ...

The film is directed by David Ayer and written by James Elroy and David Ayer (who wrote "Training Day"). It is produced by Erwin Stoff, Alexandra Milchan and Lucas Foster. The full cast includes ...

Much of the eclectic supporting cast, which includes Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Cedric the Entertainer, Jay Mohr, Amaury Nolasco (of TV's Prison Break) and Naomie Harris, is sadly underused, and ...

Street Kings 2008, R, 109 min. Directed by David Ayer. Starring Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Martha Higareda, Terry Crews, Jay Mohr ...

11 votes, 12 comments. 211K subscribers in the moviecritic community. A subreddit for movie reviews and discussions. Skip to main content. Open menu Open navigation Go to Reddit Home. ... Street Kings (2008) An over the top movie about dirty cops, watched mainly because of Keanu Reeves, and I think this is one of his more under the radar movies.

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