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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
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
Sales Rank: 1748
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: April 11, 2008
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: - Street Kingz Review
If you were a fan of "Training Day", the TV series "The Shield", or just wanna see how Keanu Reeves portrays a corrupt, killing machine, LA cop then this is your flick.
Overall, a surprisingly good mystery moving, action packed movie.
Rating:  - Don't Even Bother
This movie was so supremely disappointing. It was a convoluted mess. Keanu Reeves should stick to roles where he's not required to talk. When he opens his mouth his words sound like they were pre-recorded in a dark black hole. Stupid dialog, an unbelievable plot, contrived antagonism, and some of the worst acting I've seen since Arnold Schwarzenegger polluted the screen. These men are not "Street Kings" they are "Street Trash." Bad cops killing bad cops and the worst of the bad cops growing a conscience ... Read More
Rating:  - keanu a cop?
loved keanu! couldn't image him as a cop, but he was great. He gets better with every picture. Movie has a good story line, hard to follow at first. had to watch several times to hear everything and catch every-thing. good character for keanu. good maybe for a second movie! It's nice to know that maybe men have a hard time getting over things in life. looking forward to his new movie coming next - the day the earth stood still. perfect part for mysterious keanu. I've seen the preview and it looks ... Read More
Rating: - Fast shipping and perfect condition
The package was sent on time and as described. Nothing wrong with the disc at all.
Rating: - Leave the lights off for this part of the police world
"Street Kings"--James Ellroy--deepest corruption, unrelenting violence, hidden acts, provocative coverups--this is a world that Joe and Julia Citizen will never see. The average citizen might assume corruption in police departments, but will never ever guess its extent as "Street Kings" shows.
Governmental and military black ops are kept secret with no written records in efforts to make a dent on destroying evil (philosophically speaking) in the large world. "Street Kings," through the pen of ... Read More
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