Street Kings
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More than once during writer/director David Ayer’s Street Kings, I was reminded of Chris Rock’s infamous Oscar rant from a few years back: “If you can’t get a star, wait. You want Tom Cruise and all you get is Jude Law … wait, it’s not the same thing.” If you wanna watch Training Day, but all the video store has is copies of Street Kings, wait. There are plenty of superficial similarities, but it’s definitely not the same thing.
Aside from having Ayer in common (he penned Training Day; this film follows his 2005 directorial debut Harsh Times, which just saw the light of day earlier this year), both films are set in gritty, morally murky Los Angeles, infested with gang violence and shady cops that see the world in ever-darker shades of gray, along with protagonists ostensibly on the wrong side of the law but struggling to do right….Read the entire review
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