Street Kings

** – Featuring fast cars, fancy suits, rap music, rappers in acting roles, and an extraordinary amount of gun-related violence, this movie could have been a 2-hour long rap video if there were bikini-clad women and hot tubs in it. Keanu Reeves plays a dim-witted corrupt cop who is supposed to be the hero of the film because he is slightly less corrupt than rest of the outrageously corrupt cops. A marginally interesting storyline and the fact that no sort of romantic subplot was even attempted made this a step above the other films in this usually meritless genre. Forest Whitaker – as the lead bad cop – attempts some sort of unidentifiably bizarre accent and chews scenery in a fashion that I haven’t seen since the heyday of Eric Roberts (assuming Eric Roberts ever had a 'heyday').