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(1 - 40) of 40 OFCS Rating: 33% Rotten Page   1   3/5 "Entretenida, obligada a quienes gustaron de las primeras aventuras de Chili Palmer, y con un soundtrack que sacará a más de uno a la pista de baile."   Cinenganos   Alex Ramirez "too amiably daft to be truly biting."   Movie Gazette   Anton Bitel D- "I can only recommend you 'be cool' and avoid this vanity project dreck."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark B "Be Cool is a solid, funny, groovy return to the screen for Chili and his wacky west coast adventures, while also not embarrassing the original film."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf B- "Self-mocking jokes prevail in F. Gary Gray's feisty cinematic version of Elmore Leonard's irreverent Los Angeles based novel."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "For all the smug insiderness that makes Chili's world go round, it is the Rock who distracts from the formula most effectively."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2.5/4 "Get 'Shorty out of your head for a couple of goofy, irreverent hours and there's a good chance you'll enjoy this inferior yet amiable sequel."   Movie Boeuf   David N. Butterworth 1/4 "...there doesn't seem to be any reason for the film to even exist..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2.5/4 "Hip, zippy, and oh-so-cool."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman D+ "A desperate, wheezing mess."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 1.5/4 "As slick and flippant as Be Cool thinks it is in content, Gray merely provides an atmospheric three ring circus where the caustic clowns aimlessly run the ragged show"   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng F "Ultra-smooth ex-gangster Chili Palmer returns to the screen after a decade's absence and the audience gets whacked...an unmitigated disaster."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "A real chore to sit through."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/4 "Be Cool lacks both a focus and an edge, making it an amorphous mess."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "the antithesis of its title, as it is clearly trying too hard from start to finish"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 1/5 "Lethargic Get Shorty sequel has a slow-poke script, sleepwalking leads and more thought put into the product placement than the plot."   Netflix   James Rocchi 7/10 "Really shouldn't work, but it's smarter than it looks, handles itself assuredly, and does manage to be funny."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 6/10 "...don’t expect it to be as good as GET SHORTY and you should be okay."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 33/100 "Here's hoping the cast of Be Cool can pick up their careers after the release of this film."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi "Just as there's nothing lamer than people who think they're cool, watching a movie that thinks it's cool is tedious."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   John P. McCarthy 3.5/5 "click to read review [Greek]"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 2/5 "Like The Lost World sequel to Jurassic Park, Be Cool is a stellar example of forcing a sequel. There’s no inspiration, no creativity."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 2/4 "The Rock gives what I predict might be the Best Supporting performance of the year."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest C+ "The Rock is the main reason to see "Be Cool""   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 1.5/5 "Enervated sequels full of witless in-jokes shouldn't lob stones at enervated sequels full of witless in-jokes."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh D+ "...attempts to look effortless in seeming hip, but the wink-wink, nudge-nudge jokes about sequels, Hollywood, and the music world come off as familiar and self-congratulatory."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "There’s a Nobel Prize to be had in the exploration of this kind of pop-culture quantum physics..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "Less like a story than an assemblage of moments and top-notch character acting, but as far as cinematic trifles go, it's guilt-free."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 3/4 "An Elmore Leonard story is almost always more interesting than most of the pictures playing at the multiplex."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B- "Chili's assessment of a character's movie pitch is a suitable review for this one: 'You've got a premise and a setting but you don't have character arcs or a plot.' "   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1/4 "This bumbling exercise in redundant replication is as disagreeably lukewarm as a heavily trafficked municipal baby pool. "   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2.5/5 "There weren’t any plot threads left dangling at the end of Get Shorty that justified a sequel."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 2.5/5 "A silly fantasy that goes for broad strokes where a more finely tuned satire might have actually hit a nerve."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C "The characters are still engaging, but the story is a mess this time around."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten C "“Be Cool” should follow its own advice and doesn’t."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford B- "Director F. Gary Gray makes good on the characters... but he misses the lilt and attitude of the original film and never really finds his own rhythm."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 1.5/5 "has been manufactured to the hilt to appeal to all demographics yet entertains none"   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 5/10 "Cleverness is abandoned for stereotypical burlesque. It just isn't cool."   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 2/4 "Irony? If you say so."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 3/5 Read review   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski  (1 - 40) of 40 OFCS Rating: 33% Rotten Page   1