Street Kings
Director: David Ayer
Genre: Action, Crime Fiction, Thriller, Action/Adventure, Drama
Year: 2008
Country: United States of America
Language: Turkish Language, English Language
Starring: Chris Evans, Naomie Harris, Hugh Laurie, Keanu Reeves, Terry Crews, Forest Whitaker, Jay Mohr, Common, Jayceon Terrell Taylor, Amaury Nolasco, John Corbett, Cedric the Entertainer, Martha Higareda
Street Kings is a 2008 action film directed by David Ayer.
Street Kings is a 2008 action-crime film, directed by David Ayer, and starring Keanu Reeves, Hugh Laurie, Forest Whitaker and Chris Evans. It was released in theaters on April 11, 2008.
The initial screenplay drafts were written by James Ellroy in the late 1990s under the title The Night Watchman.
A disillusioned and boardline psychotic LAPD Vice detective, Detective II Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves), rarely plays by the rules and is haunted by the death of his wife. All of the cops in Ludlow's unit, including the unit's commander, Captain III Jack Wander (Forest Whitaker), bend and break the rules of conduct on a regular basis.
The movie starts with Tom Ludlow waking up, having been drinking the night before. Working undercover, he meets with Korean gangsters (whom he believes have kidnapped two Korean schoolgirls) in a parking lot, who are looking to buy a machine gun from him. After a vicious beatdown, the Koreans then proceed to steal Tom's car. Tom however planned on this and has the cops locate the vehicle via GPS. Upon arrival at their hideout, Tom storms in and kills the four inside, and then locates the missing children after covering up what really happened. While the other
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