Release date: Apr 11, 2008
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Cedir the Entertainer
Directed by David Ayer
Studio: Fox Searchlight
Street Kings is the latest cop drama that puts Keanu Reeves into a more normal role. Normal in the fact that this time Reeves is not chasing any baddies from the outer world. But this time things are closer to home, as here is another cop drama that looks into the corruption at LAPD.
Joining Keanu Reeves is another powerhouse talent , Forest Whitaker along with Hugh Laurie , Chris Evans. Throw in some big time rap artists in there, and wrap it all up with Cedric the Entertainer.
Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) is a veteran LAPD Vice Detective who sets out on a quest to discover the killers of his former partner, Detective Terrance Washington (Terry Crews). 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 Internal Affairs Captain Biggs (Hugh Laurie).
Ludlow teams up with a young Robbery Homicide Detective (Chris Evans) to track Washington's killers through the diverse communities of Los Angeles. Their determination pays off when the two Detectives track down Washington's murderers and confront them in an attempt to bring them to justice.
THE PANEL ROOM
It seems that while the cast seems to have done the movie some good, the script seems to be a big let down. That is surprising when the USP was the fact that it came from the writer of Training Day. But this one seems to be text book cop drama, the kind that we got aplenty back in the eighties. However its R rating confirms the other fact, lotsa action, lotsa violent action that is!
Substitute a gutsier ending, however, and this might have been something to recommend more heartily than with a half-hearted shrug REELVIEWS 2.5/4
Wasting money and studio resources on a clichéd rehash like this is puzzling, to say the least FILM THREAT 1.5/5
Among dirty-cop actioners, “Street Kings” is hardly royalty but it gets the job done. ONE GUYS OPINION B-
Street Kings" is an anemic attempt to evoke the big, shiny action pictures of the late '80s and early '90s CHICAGO SUN TIMES 1.5/5
The gritty pic more than earns its R rating but should open strong regardless and stick around as action-starved auds take in the carnage. VARIETY
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