Release Date
April 11, 2008
DVD Release Date
August 19, 2008 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
David Ayer
Writer
James Ellroy, David Ayer
Cast
Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Naomie Harris, Jay Mohr, John Corbett, Cedric the Entertainer, Amaury Nolasco, Terry Crews, Common, The Game
Studio
Running Time
107 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for strong violence and pervasive language
What is Street Kings about?
Keanu Reeves plays Tom Ludlow, a veteran LAPD Vice Detective. Ludlow sets out on a quest to discover the killers of his former partner, Detective Terrance Washington (Crews). Whitaker plays Captain Wander, Ludlo's supervisor, whose duties include keeping him within the confines of the law and out of the clutches of Internal Affairs Captain Biggs (Laurie). Ludlow teams up with a young Robbery Homicide Detective (Evans) to track Washington's killers through the diverse communities of... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
Keanu Reeves takes on corrupt cops, while hedging on being one himself, in Street Kings, a gritty and surprisingly decent action-thriller now out on DVD. Reeves plays a cop who, under investigation by Internal Affairs for questionable crime-solving techniques, finds himself between a rock and a hard place after one of his colleagues is brutally murdered.
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