Things I remembered about Street Kings:
- Keanu barfing first thing in the morning because he's an alllllllcoholic.
- Forest Whitaker overacting.
- The wall full of money.
- Jay Mohr's hilarious mustache.
- The stilted dialogue surrounding the hilariously overcomplicated conspiracy.
- Keanu saying racist stuff. Ugh.
- The gross amounts of splatter shootings. Blech.
- The thoroughly unnecessary, absolutely disgusting rape talk and threats from the conspiracy puppets. It's jarring and not at all what I'd expect from dudes who were just, spoiler alert, protecting their ill-gotten "cookie jar" of pilfered money.
Ray Liotta stars in this tale of two Detroit detectives who team up to investigate the killing of an undercover officer -- a task that leads to evidence of shady goings-on in their own unit, and that has each sleuth eying the other warily.
...I predict the following things for Street Kings 2: Motor City:
- Ray Liotta is going to have retired because of the death of a family member and he'll be a total mess.
- There will be a sequence where they are at the undercover officer's funeral, and Ray Liotta flinches during the honor guard salute (that was in the original).
- The conspiracy will go all the way to the top!
- Shawn Hatosy's character will ultimately be involved in the conspiracy and will totally bite it in the third act (ETA: Or maybe not...after all, Chris Evans-not-Pine was an Innocent and died while helping Keanu).
ETA For no particular reason, I was investigating the price of Street Kings 2 at Amazon and...
Is it the name that has you so lathered up? Because "Street Kings" is a damned funny name, and "Street Kings 2" is twice that.
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