Synopsis
Everyone is looking for the next big hit.
Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive along the way.
2005 Directed by F. Gary Gray
Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive along the way.
John Travolta Uma Thurman Vince Vaughn Cedric the Entertainer Dwayne Johnson André 3000 Steven Tyler Robert Pastorelli Christina Milian Paul Adelstein Debi Mazar Gregory Alan Williams Harvey Keitel Danny DeVito James Woods Anthony J. Ribustello Wyclef Jean Fred Durst Sérgio Mendes Gene Simmons RZA Joe Perry Anna Nicole Smith Alex Kubik Darren Carter Carol Duboc Minae Noji Arielle Kebbel Kimberly J. Brown Show All…
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From the perspective of a decade and a half later it's absolutely hilarious now that The Rock is in this, but weirdly at the time it was a not-bad meta joke that he was playing someone who desperately wanted to get into acting. (It also helps that Elmore Leonard, in the book, transparently wrote the character as resembling El Dwayne.)
Which is what leads me to the following: it is one of the worst casting fuck-ups I can recall, and I can recall quite a few, to cast someone who is *also six feet five* to play his loudmouth dumbass boss. The fucking sight gag is *right fucking there*: get a short guy. This is the fucking sequel to a…
The poster for this movie features a lot of recognizable stars. Director F. Gary Gray, in his very few film credits, has a certain je ne sias quoi. He reminds me of Ryan Coogler, another director that catches the power of African Americans.
Unfortunately, the title is Be Cool. It should've taken it's own advice.
To me Uma Thurman's career will always be in a state of being in her prime. John Travolta...not so much. I forgive Thurman for doing a cheeseball movie right after her Kill Bill series. That must've been a tough couple of years for her.
What I don't forgive is that 11 years after Pulp Fiction they all had the audacity to recreate a Dollar Tree,…
This movie is like a distilled version of all the worst parts of the late 90s/early 2000s.
THIS is what i thought Get Shorty was going to be.
mama mia, the thurman/travolta dance, the kietel stuff, the cedric "sam jackson" speech; this is what you get for all the pulp fiction comparisons given to Get Shorty.
the apex of 2005 MTV cribs/hip hop furry bucket-hat, low-rise jeans faux car-garage b-boy visual culture. every single visual second of this film sucks so so so hard that it almost distracts from how fucking god-awful the writing, acting, directing are. the homophobia aswell...holy smokes. im gobsmacked.
at least danny devito is only in it to kiss anna nicole smith
Lacking the sardonic deftness of Leonard's remarkable source material to pull off this meta plot, Be Cool is a horrible adaptation that is terribly paced, stupid, and overlong, with not a single good performance in it by mostly miscast actors.
A week ago i finished Elmore Leonard's book of the same name, and absolutely loved it. I was endlessly intrigued to learn how they could've messed up such a stellar book. But boy oh boy, i did not expect this. My lord. It adds so much unnecessary fluff, and omits crucial (parts of) scenes. It focuses on the character of Edie Athens throughout the entire film (horribly one-the-nose casting of Uma Thurman) even though she's in the book for around…
Some films simply have ironic titles don't they? John Travolta had been cool right up until he started dying that incredible head of hair of his, now it feels like he's parodying himself. Uma has always been cool, even before she met Tarantino, so she gets a pass here. Coolest thing in this movie? Andre Benjamin reminding us of Peckinpah's use of Dylan's Knocking on Heaven's Door in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, one of the coolest Westerns ever to grace the silver screen.
I want to say this is F. Gary Grays only miss from memory. Even some of the lesser, very studio committee made actioners he’s made are extremely slick and have good cast chemistry to me. But Be Cool barely costs by on the latter and that’s it.
Occasionally this movie soars with some great scenes in isolation, helped by a supporting cast all having a blast, if Dwayne Johnson, Harvey Keitel, Vince Vaughn or Cedric the Entertainer are on screen it’s pretty good. But the connective tissue between those scenes isn’t there.
Trying to recapture the chemistry between Travolta and Uma Thurman from Pulp Fiction was a tall order and it doesn’t really work here. Travolta is great as Chili…
F. Gary Gray's disaster-piece. Not much more to say honestly. This was totally egregious.
Start with a great film like Get Shorty and decide to make a sequel.
Replace the brilliant director.
Take away the excellent cast like Gene Hackman, James Gandolfini and Danny DeVito.
Replace them with the likes of the incessantly annoying Vince Vaughn.
Swap the irony laden movie producing plot with the boring uninspired music world.
Add nearly 20 minutes to the run time.
Finally do all this 10 years after the original.
Voilà you've made the woeful Be Cool.