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- While events inspire the movie in the New York City of the 1860s, the movie is not based on a true story.
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Street Kings is a 2008 American action thriller film directed by David Ayer, and starring Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Common and The Game. The initial screenplay drafts were written by James Ellroy in the late 1990s under the title The Night Watchman.
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Apr 11, 2008 · Certainly that is the case with David Ayer's absurd if accidentally entertaining potboiler, "Street Kings," based on a story by Ellroy, who also shares screenwriting credit with Kurt Wimmer and...
Apr 11, 2008 · “Street Kings” is an absurd if accidentally entertaining potboiler, based on a story by James Ellroy.
- David Ayer
Sep 1, 2023 · The two engage in a scuffle that results in exposing the truth behind Wander's influence and greed, and Street Kings concludes with a somber view about the betrayal of trust, justice, and the consequences of using the ends to justify the means.
Apr 10, 2008 · In Street Kings, based on a story by crime-lit kingpin James Ellroy, a veteran LAPD officer (Keanu Reeves, right) goes over the edge after his wife dies. The alarm clock buzzes. Keanu Reeves wakes up fully dressed in a striped shirt, raises his gun and rolls out of bed.
Street Kings: Directed by David Ayer. With Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans. An undercover cop, disillusioned by the death of his wife, is implicated in the murder of an officer and must struggle to clear himself.
Street Kings is hardly a high-minded exploration of police corruption. Instead, it’s a bullet-ridden, blood-drenched and profanity-laden indulgence in Death Wish-style vigilantism that masquerades as some kind of dark morality tale. Dark? Yes. A morality tale? Not really.
