There's plenty of empty bravura, and Reeves is fundamentally blank and uninteresting.
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04/18/08
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Street Kings (2008)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:2
Rotten:9
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Street Kings contains formulaic violence but no shred of intelligence.
Rated: 15 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:18-04-2008
Synopsis: 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,... [More]
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Forest Whitaker
Director: David Ayer
Reviews for Street Kings
1 - 11 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticDepressing and sickeningly violent.
04/18/08
Top CriticA by-the-numbers, cynical, bad cop-worse cops drama, made even less appealing by Reeves's mannequin-like presence.
04/18/08
Top CriticLast-minute revelations emerge screaming from around the corner like squad cars you heard coming half-an-hour ago, and it all ends with a dull thud instead of a crash wallop. Long after you've stopped caring, it's finally over and out.
04/18/08
Top CriticWhat could have been endearingly daft remains merely forgettable.
04/18/08
Top CriticAnother mean, violent and decently acted slab of Ellroy-flavoured criminality, with an impressively battered Keanu Reeves, but Ayers is no Curtis Hanson.
04/18/08
Top CriticKeanu Reeves' bad-boy cop Tom Ludlow may not play by the rules, but the film sure does.
10/18/08
Top CriticAn anemic attempt to evoke the big, shiny action pictures of the late '80s and early '90s, the heyday of Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, when Timothy Dalton was 007 and Clint Eastwood had fewer wrinkles and bigger hair.
04/11/08
Top CriticStreet Kings is an absurd if accidentally entertaining potboiler, based on a story by James Ellroy.
04/10/08
Top CriticFast action combined with rock-solid characters.
04/04/08
Top CriticPic itself is similarly conflicted, glamorizing gunslinging while crying foul over unnecessary force.
04/03/08
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August 16, 2008:
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