Stream it now Be Cool 2005

 

So much could have been done with such a strong cast!...but no

This film was really rubbish, messy, boring and utterly forgettable.

Grade: F

poor excuse for an unwanted sequel. all the fun, humour and characters of the first film are thrown away for what is a terrible film.
its hard to point the finger when no one seems to be investing in the film. only the rock comes out with a few laughs but that is not the film we are suppose to be watching. the film should have stayed with the original concept of the movie scene instead because we may have gathered a return of the original cast.
this is bad and a waste of time and money almost ruining the original film

It is total bullshit that I can't give this movie a negative percentage. Anyone that rated it above a 10% should have their account deleted.

The only reason I propped up Be Cool with a 60% is because of my undying love for Aerosmith, and I'll give any movie a positive for employing them or their music (witness my positive rating for Armageddon). I wouldn't normally like the mashup they do with the young female singer, but it's actually pretty good (despite the self-indulgent cutaways to Uma Thurman and John Travolta at several points in the concert performance).

As for the movie itself, it is definitely a step back from Get Shorty. It's almost not even a sequel except for the overarching Travolta character (Chili Palmer). Harvey Keitel is mildly wasted, and Vince Vaughan is nerve-gratingly terrible. I like the Rock and I think he did pretty good with a tongue-in-cheek role as an effeminate bodyguard (though he's essentially just the same character that James Gandolfini played in Get Shorty, and every other bodyguard-for-the-bad-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold). Uma Thurman is there to look hot and doesn't really add or detract from the movie. Cedric the Entertainer is pretty good in a few of his parts, though he's way too serious at times. Travolta is the same as he was in Get Shorty, but he seems to be a little too worshipful of his music protege, and he even butchers the meaning of Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion (which Steven Tyler inexplicably allows).

Be Cool is nowhere near as good as Get Shorty, and while the plot twists just as much, it's not as satisfying a conclusion as Get Shorty had (and actually you probably won't care when you get to the end anyway). I'm hard-pressed to recommend it to anyone except people like me who are shameless Aerosmith hounds. It's not as terrible, though, as a lot of people thought. It's just extremely inconsistent. It can be smooth and charismatic at times, annoying and cloying at others. Without Aerosmith, I'd probably vote it down to 40-50%.

piece o'shit.

With all the talent involved here you would think they could make a better movie.

There are two main reasons that I did not give this movie a zero. :rotten: The first reason is that I did not see "Get Shorty", which apparently was the prequel to this movie. Secondly, I did not give this movie a zero because I left the theater halfway through the movie in disgust at how poorly the movie was made. Overall, a rotten film that was simply unfunny and plotless. :rotten: :rotten: :rotten: :rotten:

I did not expect this movie to be good, yet it was still a let down proving to be one of the worst movies ever.

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