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Be Cool takes its own advice: It's slick, Hollywood entertainment that kills two amusing hours with relative ease and comfort. Better than leftovers but not as tasty as a full-course meal, this sequel to 1995's hit comedy Get Shorty (and based on Elmore Leonard's 1999 sequel novel) finds former loan shark Chili Palmer (John Travolta) itching to get out of the movie business, so he hooks up with a newly widowed music executive (Uma Thurman) to launch the career of an up-'n-coming Beyoncé-like singer (newcomer Christina Milian). A mock-black manager (Vince Vaughn), his sleazy boss (Harvey Keitel), and an upscale gangsta-rap executive (Cedric the Entertainer) all have a competing stake in the fast-rising pop diva's future, and this sets the plot rolling in a fun but rather hand-me-down fashion that lacks the savvy panache of Get Shorty but still provides plenty of lightweight humor. The Rock and Outkast's André Benjamin provide the best laughs in supporting roles that effortlessly relieve the movie from the symptoms of sequelitis. --Jeff Shannon
Be cool proves that a big cast full of big names do not make a good movie. With so many actors, you'd think it would be a good movie. There a very few funny scenes, and the plot is boring and long. It really goes no where in it's 120 minutes. A potential movie turns to mush.
Be Cool, Because You Need To Be After Watching This Flat Interpretation of Elmore Leonard
You get John Travolta and Uma Thurman. You get a bunch of solid supports like Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, Andre Benjamin, Harvey Keitel, James Woods, The Rock, Robert Pastorelli, Christina Milian, and Danny DeVito. You get amusing cameos by Steven Tyler, Sergio Mendes, and many others. Plus you get the original book of Elmore Leonard. And then you get just OK 'Be Cool' unexceptional comedy drama. In short, you don't have anotherr 'Get Shorty'; you only get short-changed.
Chili Palmer who was seen in 'Get Shorty' comes back, and in this sequel he wants to move into the music industy. But as you know, finding and promoting talented artists could be a tough job. Even if you find one, the job could be killing you when your record company is in heavy debt, and some gangsters are after you. But Chilie would be always cool, no matter what happen. He could also get gorgeous Edie played by Uma Thurman -- cue to them on the dancing floor ala 'Pulp Fiction' -- and see a basketball game with Steven Tylor, one of the many, many cameos.
In Elmore Leonard characters are everything, not the story, so I can forgive the complicated plot of the film. I admit some characters are interesting, especially The Rock's Elliot, a thug who wants to be a movie star. Stragely, the supports like Vince Vaughn and Andre Benjamin are more impressive than the two leading stars.
[OFFBEAT? NO JUST FLAT] There is a fine line between being off-beat and flat, and if 'Get Shorty' belongs to the former, 'Be Cool' is described as the other. In spite of some funny moments, like The Rock parodying his public image, director F Gary Gray overdoes it. See how Elliot raises his eyebrow twice, while once is enough. See a Russian mafioso's wig blown away twice, not once. See Sin La Salle, the gangster played by Cedric the Entertainer acts before his lovely daughter as a good father ... twice. No wonder the film runs 120 minutes.
But actually, only one example would suffice to prove that 'Be Cool' needs Tarantino's skills. There is a scene in which Travolta and Thurman dance together. When they are in the same frame, everyone expects that, and yes, that happens. And though the tension is not as high as the now classic Jack Rabbit Slim scene, the chemstry is there. Sadly, however, the director ruins it with cut, cut, and cut, giving emphasis to God knows what. That's when I missed the hand of Tarantino, who knows what he is doing, and knows what is going on.
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I don't understand the poor reviews of this movie. I thought it was hilarious, and the second half of it was just as funny as Get Shorty. Plus, this is one of the few instances when the movie is actually better than the book. I didn't like the ending of the book, where Linda Moon dumps Chili Palmer, after he got her career going. I much preferred how they wrapped it up in the movie. Anyway, it's great fun, and the cast is terrific.
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From Hollywood's legendary Cocoanut Grove to the pioneering conquest of the wild blue yonder, Martin Scorsese's The Aviator celebrates old-school filmmaking at its finest. We say "old school" only because Scorsese's love of golden-age Hollywood is evident in his approach to his subject--Howard Hughes in his prime (played by Leonardo DiCaprio in his)--and especially in his technical mastery of the medium reflecting his love for classical filmmaking of the studio era. Even when he's using state-of-the-art digital trickery for the film's exciting flight scenes (including one of the most spectacular crashes ever filmed), Scorsese's meticulous attention to art direction...