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(1 - 40) of 40 OFCS Rating: 38% Rotten Page   1   3/4 "Street Kings finds itself a comfy little place between being a basic, shoot-'em-up action movie and a hard-hitting character study."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   A. J. Hakari C+ "I was halfway expecting Leslie Nielsen to make a cameo appearance as the coroner."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 3/5 "For Street Kings, being an above-average example of an overused idea is not necessarily a bad thing."   Filmcritic.com   Bill Gibron 2/4 "Surely two decades of TV's post-Bochco dirty-cop dramas have removed this kind of potboiler not only from claims of artiness, but from expectations of being taken seriously."   Slant Magazine   Bill Weber "Movies like "Street Kings" are sitting ducks in a shooting range for film critics who laugh all through the movie only to condemn it for being so damn entertaining."   Beyond Hollywood   Brian Holcomb B "It does provide a compelling, edgy ride around the underbelly of life, worth the trip to bask in the tough-guy bloodshed and bullet-riddled nightlife of Los Angeles."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf B- "A combination of implausible plot-points, and the miscasting of television's Hugh Laurie as Internal Affairs chief Captain Biggs, hampers a convoluted crime thriller that is nonetheless entertaining for its grotesque action sequences."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Even with the race dynamics not very scrambled, David Ayer's latest film looks a lot like Training Day."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 4/5 "Street Kings doesn't stack up against Ayer's earlier works, but for basic thrills and grand-scale dramatics, it's thoroughly involving."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius 3/4 "...Street Kings ultimately comes off as an irrisistible throwback to the unapologetically over-the-top actioners of the 1980s."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C+ "Disposable crime flick."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "It's a story that has been played out more times than can be counted and is none too fresh on this go-round. Street Kings simply brings nothing new to the 'bad cop' subgenre."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman C "The film is undone by a story that manages to be both implausible and overly familiar. We've seen all of this before -- and we didn't buy it then, either."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "Despite only sharing credit as a co-writer, the story has Ellroy's fingerprints all over it and those familiar smudges become a detriment to an otherwise well-made film by director David Ayer."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress 1.5/4 ""L.A. Confidential" for Dummies..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. "There's only the spectacle of crooked dunces slamming against each other"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce B- "Among dirty-cop actioners...hardly royalty; despite the title, it's more like a pretender to the throne. But like Reeves's Ludlow, it gets the job done."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2.5/4 "Despite the predictability of the overall story arc, there's suspense and tension to be found between the credit sequences, but the movie is saddled with an ending that is both improbable and borderline insulting."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/5 "There is certainly something compelling in the film's ideas, but the way they're executed suggest that any true questions about morality and the law are just grist for the action mill."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 8/10 "Granted, it doesn’t revolutionize the cop genre, but it definitely does a solid job of entertaining for its runtime, and as a movie-watcher (and lover)…ain’t much else that I can ask for than that."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo "A recurring story pushed to the hilt, 'Street Kings' has a fiercely hyperbolic integrity."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   John P. McCarthy "tha mporoyse na eidothei os ena akomi kommati tis seiras aprosdokiton soykse toy box office poy dikaionei istories ekdikiton se mia Ameriki kainoyrias periodoy Rigkanismoy kai amfisbitisis tis apotelesmatikotitas tis politeias stin prostasia ton ypokeimen"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis C- "On top of bad casting decisions, hackneyed dialogue and so much machismo it would make Mister Furley blush, the film loses sight of all the issues it brings up."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr C "...risible dialogue, obvious 'twists' and a bad Forrest Whitaker performance."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/4 "Everything that worked brilliantly in L.A. Confidential and Dark Blue falls flat here."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh "[R]elentlessly grim, relentlessly brutal, relentlessly cynical... [W]orks if you buy Reeves... as an unvarnishing mirror of exhausted but still thrashing 40ish Generation Xers..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson C ""Street Kings" is a like a Cliff's Notes version of Training Day not that Training Day was any special challenge to the mental muscle. Corruption is bad, we get it."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow C "Ayers' second straight overwrought and unfulfilling tale concerning a loco white boy knee-deep in the City of Angels' criminal scene."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 3/5 "Não trai seu universo cínico, alcançando um equilíbrio que torna seu desfecho satisfatório, mas (e aí está a diferença)jamais esperançoso."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 1.5/5 "Street Kings feels like Lethal Weapon mashed up with The Shield, only without the former's goofy '80s vibe or the latter's relative authenticity."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 1.5/5 "When the bar has been set as high as it has in recent years by the likes of The Wire and the aforementioned Training Day, wasting money and studio resources on a clichéd rehash like this is puzzling, to say the least."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 2/5 "The James Ellroy that I know and admire wouldn't concoct a storyline that is so crashingly obvious that virtually every member of the audience will have sussed out who is at the bottom of the conspiracy at least an hour before it finally dawns on our hero"   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2.5/5 "A general emptiness nags as the story progresses, undermining the solid performances and weaving in a seriously ugly message."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B "Ayers makes the trip worthwhile largely through his excellent eye for asphalt level L.A. and his careful attention to Ludlow's moral dilemma."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C "I'm a sucker for good shoot 'em up action in a flick but I am also a stickler for a good story. I got the former but not the latter."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 2.5/5 "Feels like stuff left over from a random episode of CSI: Dirty Cop Division."   Cinematical   Scott Weinberg 2.5/4 "An archetypical Los Angeles detective story"   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell 3/10 "There ought to be a testosterone warning posted at the box-office because overdosing is a distinct possibility, and to call Reeves'a acting wooden is an insult to Pinnochio."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 1/4 "I love James Ellroy--his L.A. Confidential is a work of real genius--but I wonder if he's not something of a one-trick pony. And I wonder if that pony isn't the proverbial dead horse"   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 40) of 40 OFCS Rating: 38% Rotten Page   1