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Ok, rule of thumb: if a movie is going to stack itself with well known stars, it just might very well SUCK.

This movie is saved by Vince Vaughan and The Rock who steal the show, not that there's much to steal.

John Travolta plays is cool...and I must admit that Uma Thurman does look her best in this.

The plot is retarded and some parts make you cringe and just grind on and on. In other words, it tries to look cooler then it actually is.

Be Cool was kind of dissapointing, but I really didn't expect too much out of a sequel to Get Shorty, even though the first movie was a big hit, there was not really room for a sequel, it could of been said and done there. What this movie did have, was a huge cast, more and more names just kept on showing up, Vince Vaughn, The Rock, Aerosmith, Cedric the Entertainer, Andre 3000, Harvey Keitel, James Woods and Danny Devito returned to pretty much make a cameo and leave. Uma Thurman was the best performance in the movie, as well as Travolta, but the plot really lacked, and it was pretty slow. The movie does have it's moments, but its nothing to go crazy about, its on the fringe of shittiness, so I gave it a 6.

i just got back from watching the sequel to one of my all time favorite films "Get Shorty", "Be Cool". i have many views and opinions on this film, which overall i enjoyed. but i am going to start with the stuff i liked.

WHAT I LIKED....
+ this is one preformance from John Travolta that enjoyed. i feel he pulled it off great. i havnt liked some of his more recent films (battlefield earth), and he has started to drop off the A-list and maybe even the B-list too. but i feel a film and a preformance like this is just going to bring him back up, sorta in the way "Pulp Fiction" did back in the day.

+ i also enjoyed the way the movie isnt afraid to make fun of its self. it has many references to a fictional sequal to a film called "Get Lost". and i like how they refer to how bad sequals are and this is in fact one. so i liked the poking fun at its self.

+ i pretty much enjoyed all the actors in this and felt they pulled off there roles good. i always enjoy seeing Mr. White himself Harvey Keitel in a movie.

+great chemistry between John and Uma, really reminded me of "Pulp Fiction". espically the dance scene. i just like that alot.

WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE...

- i really didnt like Harveys character, i liked his preformance but i just didnt like the charcter.

- i also didnt like the way the movie was structured mainly around Christina Milians character, i personally when to see the movie for John, not here, so that was a downer.

well thats all i can think of, i know alot of people so far are giving it a bad review, but i think it was good and really well prefromed from John all the way to Danny Devito.

F. Gary Gray's disastrous mess "Be Cool" only works in one scene: Uma Thurman and John Travolta's dance sequence paying homage to Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction." Every dreaful line of dialogue is blurted out with no convention whatsoever. Travolta's tries his best to literally be the epitomy of cool, but it's easy to say he can never achieve the coolness of his Vincent Vega from "Fiction."

Point in case, "Be Cool" is an awful wannabe of "Pulp Fiction" with horrible editing, horrible performances, horrible cameos, horrible direction, and a horrible script. Elmore Leonard's novels are made into good films, as we saw with "Get Shorty" and "Out of Sight," but when you are making an Elmore Leonard film into a pop-culture mess with advertisements at every turn, you get a disaster.

It's the kind of film in which the actors are pre-picked before the script is written, leading to a disastrous factory product that leaves a bitter taste in the viewers mouth. When the Coen Brothers pick their actors before writing their screenplays, they actually give them dimensionality and have fun with them. Here, the characters are flatter than a perfectly sanded hardwood floor. Skip this disaster, honestly, skip it permanently, meaning don't even watch it if it's free, or even if you are paid to see it. Just, don't watch it.

This is the kind of film that makes people like me lose hope in moviegoers who walk out of the theater saying, "That's the best film." Those are the same viewers who haven't even heard of "Million Dollar Baby."

Essentially, Vince Vaughn is absolutely hilarious. His talent is wasted. Additionally, The Rock is profoundly funny playing a homosexual bodyguard who is stupid yet has a heart of gold, but still murders people when necessary.

God awful film, especially when Cedric the Entertainer jumps into a "unique" speech about the African-American struggle and how every white person wants to be black. Then we get a few racist Russians from the Russian mob, which, according to the film, consists of approximately five guys. Oh ya, don't forget the angry African-American rapper who just wants to kill people with his gang of rappers. Whoopsy, I almost left out the girl who goes from rags to riches thanks to a powerful man who used to be a "Shylock." Oh my goodness, I almost forgot of the music industry mogul's widow who is left to run the business she helped build with her unfaithful husband, who happened to be in trouble with the Russian mafia.

As disjointed as my review sounds, its the only way I can possibly put my thoughts together for this awful film. Damn it, I almost forgot to mention Steven Tyler's horrible cameo appearance, giving a performance that is worst than Ashton Kutcher's in, well, any movie.

Once more, never watch this horrible film. Never. Never. Never.

:rotten: I went into the theatre thinking I was going to be in a constant fit of laughter but instead I found myself laughing at only a few moments in the entire film. Granted those moments that I was laughing at could be very humerous there just wasn't enough of them. Most of the movie was confusing and not very well thought out. I know something happened and it ended on a good note but I am not sure as to what exactly happened. The acting, was...tolerable. I've seen all of the actors do better though but I guess you shouldn't expect much from a movie like this. My advice if you still want to see this flick: wait for the video or if you can't wait that long go during matinee prices.

I thought that this movie was the funniest movie I'd seen in a long time! Travolta was great. The Rock was funny as hell.

I thought it was very funny and entertaining.

Human Nature

When Lila Jute (Patricia Arquette), a nature writer with excessive body hair, meets Nathan Bronfman (Tim Robbins), an obessvie/compulsive scientist attemption to teach mice table manners, the two begin an unlikely romance. On a hiking trip, the new couple encounters a feral young man (Rhys Ifans) living in the woods and decides to bring him back to the city. Name Puff by Nathan's sexy French assistant, Gabrielle (Miranda Otto), the untamed lad slowly learns about language, culture, and civilization under Nathan's skewed guidance. Meanwhile, Nathan begins to fall for Bagrielle, and the libidos of all parties involved begin to rage, leading to drastic measures.

Charlie Kaufman writes another incredible unique film here, not as good as his others but still amazing. You just got to wonder what goes on in this genuis writers head when he thinks up these movies. If people had to pick one movie by Kaufman that was his worst, this would be it, I doubt alot of people would like this one, but I still found it great. Tim Robbins gives a great performance, a guy I doubted his acting ability until I saw him in Mystic River . Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans and Miranda Otto also give some good performances. I would recommend watching Charlie Kaufmans other movies before watching this one, for some this movie could steer them away from watching his other amazing works. Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Being John Malkovich and Human nature is probably the best order to watch his movies I think. Or 'Being John Malkovich' first. Anyways GO WATCH KAUFMANS MOVIES NOW!

Be Cool

John Travolta is back as Chili Palmer in Be Cool, a sequel to the comedy smash "Get Shorty". This time, Chilli becomes a different kind of "hit" man - he abandons the movie industry to bring his wiseguy skills and negotiation tactics to the music business. When a friend is offed while they're at lunch, Chili takes the oppurtunity to visit the guy's wife Edie (Uma Thurman), and pitch himself as her new business partner at an independent record label. With a promising young pop-star-in-training as her protege (Christina Millian), Chili has to juggle her faux-urban manager (Vince Vaughn), his gay wanabe-actor bodyguard (The Rock), Russian mobsters, and an eloquent gangsta music producer (Cedric the Entertainer) to save the label and land a hit -- and keep from getting popped himself.

I went to see Be Cool without having seen Get Shorty, but I still don't think that would have helped the enjoyment out of this movie. From what I saw you don't have to see the orginal to understand the sequel, because I understood it fine. It just well, wasn't that great as it could have been. The actors in this movie don't help the movie out much, Vince Vaughn and The Rock help the movie to be funny, but it wasn't enough. Cedric the Entertainer had a few comedic moments, John Travolta was a good actor in the movie but that doesn't nessicarily make the movie good, Uma Thurman was great as well. What killed the movie is the story, the story is just stupid and sucks. I'm think I will enjoy Get Shorty alot more than this based on the reviews I've seen. I have a feeling that this movie is to Get Shorty as The Whole Ten Yards is to The Whole Nine Yards, crap. I would definately not recommend this movie, if you have to see it because of The Rock or any other actor in this movie, wait until the DVD.

Requiem For A Dream

Darren Aronofsky's frenetic, visionary, unique and disturbing style lies the perfect setting for this story of four people whose intertwined lives are filled with eternally hopeful despair. Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto) and Marion Silver (Jennifer Connelly) are lovers in Brooklyn with dreams of setting up a small business and spending the rest of their lives in love -- their visions of the American dream. The two are also desperate heroin addicts, a compulsion that darkens their lives and leads harry to repeatedly pawn his mother's television. His mother, Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn), is addicted to television, which is why she keeps replacing the stolen set. One day she receives a call from her favorite show, the surreal Tappy Tibbons Show, and learns that she has been slected to appear on an upcoming broadcast. When she can't fir into her best red dress, her doctor prescribes her to diet pills (uppers), to which she swiftly and painfully becomes addicted. Harry's cohort, an intelligent hustler named Tyrone (Marlon Wayans), completes the foursome.

Just by watching this movie I have already falling in love with Darren Aronofsky, his style of direction was just extremely different and great. I've gotten to the point where I'm sick of all the new Hollywood movies that come out that are all basically rehashes of older films of the same genre. I've started watching movies by the directors and writers that have unique styles in their scripts and the way they use the camera to portray things. Requiem For A Dream is honestly one of the best movies I've ever seen, its very depressing and well pretty screwed up. Certain people I wouldn't recommend watching this to, I think everyone should see it honestly, but some people just couldn't handle what it covers and how it covers the topics. It definately would make you think twice about doing heroin or any of the major drugs like that. Jennifer Connely I really like her as an actor, and I'm going to look into some of her other movies, mainly I want to see House of Sand and Fog. Jared Leto is a great actor as well, he reminds me alot of Jake Gyllenhaal mainly just from Donnie Darko. Ellen Burstyn really gave a great performance as well, just being able to act out the situations that she was in, in the movie. Marlon Wayans who I've never been a fan of, just mainly because of the type movies hes done, for example White Chicks, but he really shows in this movie that he can be a good actor and well play in some great movies. This movie is really stunning, and wow its just amazing. I highly recommend watching this movie, but just beware of what you're about to watch when you do see it.

This review will (hopefully) appear in The Daily Athenaeum this week.

I'll post a link when it becomes available, or the whole shabang if they don't run it.

Be Cool is entertaining. The movie is funny and cool.