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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: Blu-ray Brand: 20th Century EAN: 0024543525905 Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: August 19, 2008 Running Time: 109 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: 2008 Sales Rank: 1038 MPN: 52590
Editorial Review:
Description: Disc 1: **Widescreen Feature Film **Commentary by Director David Ayer **Commentary by Forest Whitaker and Keanu Reeves **15 Deleted Scenes **10 Alternate Tracks **5 Vignettes **4 Behind The Scenes **Street Rules: Rolling with David Ayer and Jaime Fitz Simons **La Bete Noir: Writing Street Kings **Street Cred **Under Surveillance: Inside the World of Street Kings **HBO First Look- City of Fallen Angels: Making Street Kings
Disc 2: Digital Copy
Amazon.com: Street Kings is a pungent bouquet of corruption, violence, multi-ethnic mayhem, macho glee laced with macho angst, and fluorescently obscene dialogue from the mind of James Ellroy. Its hero, though he'd scarcely consent to be called one, is L.A. police detective Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves), for whom life is a wound that won't heal and dealing out retribution to scumbags is the ongoing treatment. Ludlow's the star player--"the tip of the [expletive] spear"--on a team of detectives headed by Capt. Jack Wander (Forest Whitaker). Coach Wander relies on his boys to keep breaking lurid cases, usually through deeply darkside underground work, and raising his profile with the media and the department. In pursuit of these goals, nothing is forbidden except failure, and the truth is what you make it look like. This is familiar Ellroy territory, most effectively translated to the screen in L.A. Confidential (which should have won the 1997 Oscar, and would have if Titanic hadn't launched that year). If you know Ellroy's ground game, you can pretty much guess where Street Kings is going, and where it's been. Still, the twists and torques of its urban road-rage course maintain the centrifugal force needed to hold us in our seats (a tactical highlight: refrigerator adapted as rolling barricade), and the movie keeps bopping us with oddball casting coups: comic Jay Mohr and Northern Exposure/Sex and the City veteran John Corbett as two members of Coach Warden's gonzo detective squad; Cedric the Entertainer doing a nicely nuanced turn as a street creature; Hugh Laurie doing a less-hyper version of House, if House worked Internal Affairs.
The problem is that director David Ayer keeps everything intense. Dialogues are shot too close-up, line readings are too strident, the action is too nonstop slam. Recall Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confidential and the mind's eye summons up a whole spectrum of existence, mood, place, historical period, emotional investment; there's an amplitude to the picture and the sensibility bringing it to us, something besides the whodunit and the endless rap sheet of nasty what-they-done. Everything in Street Kings is one-note, and with Keanu Reeves playing it implosive and Forest Whitaker locked in crazier-than-an-outhouse-rat mode, that's no way to stay the course. --Richard T. Jameson
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Give Back the Gun
"Street Kings" is a gritty tale about police corruption. David Ayer who wrote the screenplay for "S.W.A.T." and contributed to the script of "Training Day" directs. Keanu Reeves shifts from a romantic ... Read More
Rating: - Street Kings, so-so
Predictable plot, a little overacting here and there. Not too bad. If you're into shooting you'll notice that Keanu's character has had a little training. I liked it overall.
Rating: - Nice movie...
This is the movie that i will recommend people who like simple action movie.
The picture and sound quality of the bluray version is superb!!!
Rating: - Vintage Instrumentals
I did not know if was possible for older music to come in CD form. The product was great and the timing perfect. The person I got it for is already playing it in her car everywhere she goes.
Rating: - Surprisingly good...but not great
The screen play written by James Ellroy is about a troubled cop, a dirty but effective unit in the troubled LAPD and of course corruption that goes (da da dum) ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP. To paraphrase David ... Read More
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- Street Kings, so-so
- Vintage Instrumentals