a5c7b9f00b LAPD detective Tom Ludlow is a ruthlessly efficient, unorthodox undercover cop. Captain Jack Wander always covers for Tom, as do even his somewhat jealous colleagues. After technically excessive violence against a vicious Korean gang during the liberation of a kidnapped kid sex slave, Tom becomes the target of IA's hotshot, captain James Biggs, who feels passed over after Wander's promotion to chief. Tom's corrupt, disloyal ex-patrol partner Terrence Washington sides with IA but is killed during a shop robbery in Tom's presence. An undercover cop, disillusioned by the recent murder of his wife, is implicated in the murder of an officer and must struggle to clear himself. A Hollywood LAPD is by definition an alcoholic, divorced, anguished, mentally unstable, emotionally suffering, even close to being psychotic. And its hard to tell the difference between him and the bad guys. And what a filthy dump he lives in on such low pay you wonder why he bothers. Every cliché in the Hollywood book is in this film. <br/><br/>The opening is even more ludicrous than usual as the lone ranger single handedly and at some risk to his life sets up the bad guys and then exterminates them one by one and thats OK cos they are very bad guys. No police procedures followed by this cop. Even Dirty Harry never quite went as far as this to ignore all rules and morality except his own. He's so unpleasant it's not surprising the other cops hate him. So do I. He's a psychotic moron who should not be a policeman. <br/><br/>Oh yes and he fills himself with vodka and drives on duty. Great examples for gullible youth. And nowhere near reality. And so it goes on. Ridiculous. If it had some of the humour of an Arnie or Clint character it might be OK but it's deadly serious! Awful. I actually enjoyed Street Kings because I'm really into cop movies but I didn't expect there to be ONLY cops in the movie. Not really any gangsters or criminals. Just cops fighting each other. Forrest Whitaker was great but Keanu Reeves pulled his normal routine and showed no emotion. I understand that his role was supposed to be cold and ruthless, but I just couldn't get into his character. All I keep seeing is Keanu Reeves, an actor just reading off lines. I still can't figure out how he gets so much work. I actually liked Chris Evans better than I liked him. Hugh Laurie was also really good, and as always you would never know he's English. Common was in the movie for about five or ten minutes, and we were of course expecting him to play a bigger part just because of the ads. But all in all Street Kings is a cool movie, with a cool story, and some good characters. Not a lot of physical action, but still keeps you pretty interested. There's something cynical about Ayer's attempt to preserve Ludlow as a hero after scene upon scene meant to show, with heavy irony, how lawlessly he enforced the law. You can't lionize your "Dirty Harry" vigilante and expose his hypocrisy, too. Street Kings is based on a screenplay by screenwriters James Ellroy, Kurt Wimmer, and Jamie Moss. It is a Japanese phrase, normally used to address someone midday. The direct translation is "how is this day?" For evening, you would say "Kon Ban Wa". The character Biggs is captain of the Internal Affairs LAPD division. Ultimately his job is to uncover dangerous truths and do damage control through legal means. He is also passed up for promotion of Commander which went to the character of Forrest Whitaker.
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