BAD RGV FILMS ARE MUCH BETTER

MOVIE: Street Kings(2009)
CAST: Keanu Reeves. Forest Whittacker
DIRECTOR: David Ayer




I had a great impression of Forest Whittacker after watching his Academy Award Winning performance in The Last King of Scotland where he played the eccentric Uganda dictator. Here for no reason he makes those similar eccentric expressions and does not deliver anything special. Reeves plays a cop, Detective Tom Ludlow whose job is to get angry, push people when angry and drink lots of vodka while driving. Street Kings has that same old story of a cop falling in trouble and getting caught in charges of murdering another cop and all evidences are against him. It is his pursuit of coming out clean which forms the story.

The movie has nothing new to it and looks very silly most of the time. Martha Higareda's looks might be of some solace to the viewer but the remaining minutes of repititiveness brings no good to a viewer. Like I have mentioned in the headline, Ram Gopal Verma's films like Satya. Company, Sarkar and also the bad ones like Shiva, James, D and Contract are much more entertaining action movies than this.

With predictable and repitive screenplay, okay cinematography, nothing great direction and nothing great performances, Street Kings is far from striking any impression.