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Genres:
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Comedy /
Crime
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Release:
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Director:
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F. Gary Gray
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Actors:
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Uma Thurman,
Robert Pastorelli,
Christina Milian,
Paul Adelstein,
Steven Tyler,
John Travolta,
Vince Vaughn,
Cedric the Entertainer,
André Benjamin,
Debi Mazar,
Gregory Alan Williams,
Harvey Keitel,
Dwayne Johnson,
Danny DeVito,
James Woods
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Duration:
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116 min.
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Rating:
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(5.6/10)94.5
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Plot Summary:
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Soured with the movie assiduity, Chili Palmer (John Travolta) tries the music energy, rendezvous and romancing a widow of a music exec (Uma Thurman) on the way.
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Be Cool
David RooneySupreme hip crime fiction craftsman Elmore Leonard's droll humor, wry dialogue and waggish characters made their smoothest transitions to screen in Jackie Brown, Out of Sight and Get Shorty. Fronted -- hot on the heels of Pulp Fiction -- by a dazzlingly confident John Travolta, Get Shorty, about an underworld shylock out to conquer Hollywood, oozed cool from every scene. Ten years later, Travolta drifts lazily through Be Cool, a staggeringly flat sequel that trades filmdom for the music bizbiz and could hardly be less cool. Reteaming of the star with Uma Thurman may pique interest but word of mouth looks to be ice cold.
Much as Get Shorty served up broad satire and farcical crime plotting that was unapologetically secondary to the foibles of its charismatic c...
Be Cool
Kevin ThomasTen years ago, the amusing Get Shorty, based on the Elmore Leonard novel, introduced John Travolta as Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark and movie fan, who on a trip to L.A. became convinced the motion picture business was a snap compared to wheeling and dealing in the underworld. Palmer is back in Be Cool, and although Travolta is as smooth as ever, the picture is a bust, a grimly unfunny comedy with no connection to reality, and worst of all, running on and on for two dismal hours.
Adapted by Peter Steinfeld from Leonard's sequel novel of the same name, Be Cool is actually hopelessly square - depressingly, Leonard is one of the film's executive producers. Director F. Gary Gray, who did a bang-up job with The Italian Job remake, is torpedoed here by rotten m...
Be Dire
It seems Uma and John must be seriously short of money to take a weak script such as this. Probably the biggest let down in both their careers to date. If your thinking of watching a film with the magic of Pulp Fiction?? ....... Do yourself a favour and just get PULP FICTION!!
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