Street Kings
Street Kings refers to a band of can-do LA cops who get grizzly jobs done by operating outside of accepted and legal rules of engagement. They are given license by Forest Whitaker who puts all of his Oscar winning chops behind Jack Wander their politically ambitious Captain who knows how to pull strings. Most of the cops are played by TV recognizable actors like Jay Mohr and Amaury Nolasco but none are more daring than
Detective Tom Ludlow played by Keanu Reeves acting with some heretofore unseen skill and maturity. While in control on the job his personal life is a shambles and it gets worse when his estranged former partner (Terry Crews from Everybody Hates Chris) gets murdered because Ludlow looks suspicious especially to Internal Affairs Captain James Biggs (Hugh Laurie). Things get worse when Ludlow tried to track down the killers with help from a Detective Diskant (Chris Evans) and he ends up not only trying to figure out whose guilty but also who keeps setting him up. It’s actually pretty easy to guess but the action in Street Kings holds your interest until the pieces fall together to prove you right.