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Street Kings is the story of a vet­eran cop played by Keanu Reeves. This rogue cop is def­i­nitely not a good guy but he thinks he is. The prob­lem is his meth­ods. He’s a bad ass and will lie, tor­ture, mur­der, plant evi­dence and do pretty much any­thing else he thinks is nec­es­sary to get the bad guys. He’s good at it too and his ambi­tious boss, played by For­rest Whit­taker, always has his back and is not above a cover-up to pro­tect his best guy. Keanu’s char­ac­ter always goes too far but this time he finds his own lim­its as gets caught up in some­thing big­ger and deeper than he expected.

Street Kings must have been the com­ing out party for a bunch of TV actors. You can’t go 15 min­utes in this movie with­out see­ing some star of a TV show. It also stars a cou­ple of well known rap­pers and even a come­dian though lit­tle about this movie is funny. This is a man’s movie. There’ plenty of gritty action and killing and very lit­tle romance. The roles of the two women in the movie are only there to sup­port the man. Like the title says, this is a street movie com­plete with drugs, thugs, and ram­pant crime. Keanu plays the action hero like a woken up Neo in the Matrix.

This was a sur­pris­ingly good movie. There are parts that reminded me a lot of Train­ing Day. I had to get over my issues with Keanu play­ing a bad ass cop but after that I was pleas­antly suprised. I didn’t go to see this in the the­ater because no one said any­thing good about it but I liked it. It had plenty of action and while the plot wasn’t entirely hard to see through, I had fun get­ting to the end. I give this a 4 out of 5 marks.