Street Kings trailer | Movie News
Monosyllabic wooden acting pioneer Keanu Reeves has a crime thriller coming up called STREET KINGS (formerly know as THE NIGHT WATCHMAN) and if you're down with that, peep the trailer courtesy of Yahoo over HERE. In it, the former savior of an underground rave culture stars as a cop who's implicated in the death of a fellow officer so he has to go up against the entire department to clear his name. Or something like that. It's K-Reev in "SPEED" mode so that should bring back some nostalgic giddiness. Hugh Laurie and Forest Whitaker co-star. HARSH TIMES director and TRAINING DAY scribe directs from a script co-written, interestingly enough, by Kurt Wimmer. Hmm, this one maybe deserves a little more attention than it's been getting. It opens April 11th.
Source: Yahoo Movies
Extra Tidbit: The film was initially titled NIGHT WATCH.
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The movie doesn't look too bad, but I'll probably wait to Netflix it. Nice to see Hugh Laurie in it, and Forest Whitaker you can't go wrong with. But, I have to say, after Chris Evans' turn in...
The movie doesn't look too bad, but I'll probably wait to Netflix it. Nice to see Hugh Laurie in it, and Forest Whitaker you can't go wrong with. But, I have to say, after Chris Evans' turn in SUNSHINE, I'm interested in what more he can do. Just as long as it isn't another FANTASTIC FOUR.
Oh, and Cedric the Entertainer? Really?
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I hate how it's almost mandatory to rip on Keanu Reeves. He may not be one of the finest thespians of all time, but the man has had some nice turns (i.e. Thumbsucker, The Lake House), and as someone pointed out below, has consistently entertained in the majority of his roles (think Speed, The Matrix, Constantine, etc.).
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I hate how it's almost mandatory to rip on Keanu Reeves. He may not be one of the finest thespians of all time, but the man has had some nice turns (i.e. Thumbsucker, The Lake House), and as someone pointed out below, has consistently entertained in the majority of his roles (think Speed, The Matrix, Constantine, etc.).
It's pretty clear that he's been trying to branch out a bit, a fact that seems to have been largely ignored. Just look at his wonderful turn in "Thumbsucker" for proof of this.
A very small role? Yes. However, he did nicely in the time that he was on the screen.
Anyway, the trailer is pretty awful and makes this project look rather generic. Maybe I'm wrong about this film, but it definitely doesn't look like something I'd rush out to theaters to see.
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It's nice to recognize Reeves as the "pioneer" of wooden acting, since you gotta admit he's taken that particular brand some pretty incredible places.
It's nice to recognize Reeves as the "pioneer" of wooden acting, since you gotta admit he's taken that particular brand some pretty incredible places.