SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Signet Among the worst sequels of all time. with John Travolta pretending he is acting by showing the same smile in every scene in the movie. Big question: Is it a stroke or is it Botox? But, fortunately there is some action in his appearances before the camera. One can watch his hairpiece as it changes position on his head between camera takes from back on his head to practically on top of his eyebrows.All in all, a smirking, self-referential Hollywood mess with decent actors phoning in their lines. Except for Travolta. He is about as animated as a dummy playing a Travolta corpse. A terrible waste of time. Spare yourself the misery of watching this mess. And as for Uma Thurman, what was she doing in this movie? I can remember when she was a decent actress in good movies. She is failing her own promise here, and certainly betraying her fans, if she has any left.

Python Hyena Be Cool (2005): Dir: F. Gary Gray / Cast: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Vince Vaughn, Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson: Surprisingly superior sequel to Get Shorty. It regards attitude and ability as ex-mobster Chilli Palmer retires from the movie business and focuses on music when he hears a voice that has potential for greater success. Clever plot with numerous surprise developments. Director F. Gary Gray delivers his greatest work so far with a fantastic ensemble cast. John Travolta as Chilli, is smooth and unsurprised or threatened by the danger around him. He seeks new opportunities and seems unaffected by difficulties by those opposing. Uma Thurman plays a washed out record producer with an Aerosmith tattoo on her ass. As aided by Palmer she surpasses blackmail and threats until arriving at the film's one corny weakness and that is its reliance on Pulp Fiction for appeal. Both Travolta and Thurman did a dance that should have been left in the Tarantino film. Vince Vaughn is hilarious as another producer who thinks he is black. He steals scenes with frantic brutality and a clumsy finale. He works for a scheming producer played by Harvey Keitel who attempts to counter Palmer and loses. Dwayne Johnson steals scenes as a gay bodyguard. Interesting look into the business of record producing and greed. The result is a film that is beyond cool. Score: 9 / 10

jessegehrig This is a cold movie, a thing born of calculation and mechanisms in motion. It was not created by human hands but rather by large robotic engines that toil in an industrial area in southern California called Hollywood. Humanoid machines powered by chemical engines appear before an apparatus which captures light and motion and color. Standing outside the range of the camera's lens another humanoid machine issues commands to the humanoid machines standing within the camera's focus, based on this director's commands the actors attempt to comply. Alas the machines are clumsy and they have been programmed by inferior programmers, the code that propels these robots is both faulty and limited. In a factory this movie was manufactured, packaged and then distributed specifically for you to consume.

pkarnold There are occasions when I like a sequel more than the original. Be Cool is one of these. I liked Get Shorty, but it was a little disturbing with some of the violence. I honestly think that Be Cool is much funnier. One way I know I like a movie is if I am channel surfing and I see a movie I know and I stop to watch it again. Well, I did that with Get Shorty the other night, and I realized I like Be Cool better.I think the main reason is the comic performances by actors like Vince Vaughn, who plays a bumbling, silly gangster wannabe (Raji). He is hung out over the edge of the building and he tries to spell his name and can't do it and that cracked me up. I also like Cedric the Entertainer who plays a movie producer (Sin LaSalle) with hired gangster enforcers that he has to tell to be quiet in his upscale neighborhood because they're playing their SUV stereos too loud.Dwayne Johnson (The Rock from WWE) plays a recording star-wannabe/enforcer for the Vince Vaughan character, and is very funny. Robert Pastorelli gets a fun appearance as a mafia assassin (Joe Loop), and chokes to death eating a ham and coleslaw sandwich as Vince Vaughan tries to intimidate him with a red aluminum baseball bat.So maybe I'm the only person that liked this movie, and the comic memories it has for me. Just to give you an idea of other sequels I like better than the originals there's Die Hard II, and Star Trek II.Add in another good comic performance by Andre' Benjamin (Dabu) and I must say this is a funny, enjoyable movie at least for me. Perhaps people don't like this movie because it seems like John Travolta (Chili Palmer) is pretty much a straight man for Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, and Andre' Benjamin, but hey you don't have good comedy without a good straight man. And here's my spoiler, I liked the ending, and the unique way the credits were rolled.