Street Kings R

Street Kings
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: June 16, 2009
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: Searchlight

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 203,527
Keanu Reeves' bad-boy cop Tom Ludlow may not play by the rules, but the film sure does. Full Review
CNN.com
Oct 18, 2008
Rating: 3/5 -- A solid contemporary crime drama. Full Review
Austin Chronicle
Oct 18, 2008
Rating: 2/6 -- What could have been endearingly daft remains merely forgettable. Full Review
Time Out
Apr 18, 2008
Swimming in bloody violence, Street Kings has plenty of holes, and it is way over the top. But you also have the sense that the filmmakers are not trying to exaggerate. Full Review
The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY)
Feb 5, 2018
Common and the Game score as baddies....STREET KINGS clips along with brutal efficiency...
Rolling Stone
Apr 25, 2008
There's only the spectacle of crooked dunces slamming against each other Full Review
CinePassion
Aug 27, 2009
Rating: 2/5 -- Last-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. Full Review
BBC.com
Apr 18, 2008

Product Description:

David Ayer, who wrote TRAINING DAY, gives us another unflinching look at disillusionment and questionable decision-making within the ranks of the LAPD. Ayer's second directorial effort tells the story of burnt-out Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves), a functioning alcoholic and undisciplined detective with the Special Vice Unit. While so much of this characterization appears resonatingly familiar at first, we soon learn that the character here has been tweaked. While this loose cannon in no way does things by the book, he is also far from playing by his own rules. Ludlow is relied upon by the other detectives in the unit, and by their almost maniacally ambitious Captain Wander (Forest Whitaker), to go outside the law whenever needed. The infractions he is pressured to commit are quickly and uncomplainingly covered up by Captain Wander, while Ludlow and the rest of Special Vice receive accolades for their high clearance rate. Not until one of these cover-ups leads to the brutal murder of his ex-partner (Terry Crews) does Ludlow try to dispel the apathy (and the vodka fumes) clouding his purpose. This procedural melodrama is almost completely internalized within the LAPD, as Vice cops investigate Narcotics cops, who snitch on Homicide cops, and no one talks to Internal Affairs, etc. Crimes are staged, executed, and pinned firmly on suspects with alarming efficiency as the necessary DNA, murder weapons, and fingerprints are then sprinkled around the scenes after the fact.

A study in familiar elements slightly skewed, STREET KINGS provides a satisfying dose of bright, loud, violent police work blended with the right amount of discreetly passed interoffice envelopes to keep the taut intrigue in step with the body count. Little time is wasted on exposition, and the audience's ability to extrapolate is given a great deal of credit as Ludlow's dead wife, substance abuse, and past career troubles are flashed at us briefly, then put away in favor of the crisis at hand.

Description by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Gripping performances by Keanu Reeves and Academy Award Winner Forest Whitaker power this explosive urban crime thriller, in which a veteran cop finds himself ensnared in a deadly web of conspiracy and betrayal. Reeves stars as Tom Ludlow, a hard-nosed detective still reeling from the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, Ludlow realizes his own life is in danger and he can trust no one.

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  • UPC: 024543526094
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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