Just came back from GSC cinemas yesterday night, which I have to say is  fast becoming one of my favourite cinemas. Or rather the Pavillion in KL is becoming one of my favourite malls right after KLCC. What I love is the ease of the lift going straight up from the basement parking lot, instead of having to go through a number of escalators like KLCC. Went there to watch “Street Kings”, which is about a cop, Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) who takes out the bad guys in a manner that is not exactly highly looked upon. Because of the ways of his Unit, Internal Affairs are on his tail. Things get even more complicated for him after his ex-cop partner on the street, Washington (Terry Crews – remember the guy from White Chicks who sang ‘A Thousand Miles’? ^_^), is murdered in cold blood, with Tom first on the scene of the crime, which makes him a suspect. Tom who tries to get even fro his friend, winds up getting into more trouble and realises that he can’t trust the people whom he once called his colleagues. Since the end of the last installment of The Matrix, we haven’t seen much of the actor for a bit. First thing that striked me though was how much meat Keanu has pilled on. His arms are a lot meatier, but at the same time you can tell he’s got a bit of unwanted fat here and there. Which suited his character really, as he had to come off as an alcoholic that is trying to get over the death of his wife. Tom, usually depends a lot on his boss, Commander Wander (Forest Whitaker) to clean up after him, once he’s finished a mission. Wander usually orders him to wipe out everyone on the scene, even if the bad guys didn’t shoot first and this is where the trouble starts.Girls will be pleasantly surprised that Chris Evans (Flash=The Torch from Fantastic 4) is acting in the movie, as rookie detective, Paul Diskant, whom Tom loves to nickname Disco. Along the way, Disco becomes a trustworthy friend of Tom and good ally.For TV show fans, you guys – like me- will be ecstatic to see Hugh Laurie (House), playing the quick witted and cunning, Captain Biggs from Internal Affairs, who tries to take down Tom. The movie was flooded with lines of cussing ever few minutes. Not that i had a problem there, but the censorship board was really irritating me. First of they didn’t censor it properly, the editing came out as really choppy and half the time I couldn’t really get what the characters were saying other then “Hey you piece of m*tut*  – cut – f*tut – cut swine”. Yeah real great for watching a movie. Plus, after a while I think the movie was swearing so much the censorship people, must’ve gotten tired and let a few cusses get away. There were just to many for them to handle ^_P. They could’ve just not censored at all. Sheesh! It’s yet another cop movie where the audience is brought with terms that bribery, and political corruption is prominent within a system that is meant to keep you safe. Overall the movie was, good but a bit confusing, as they characters jumped from one crime to another (which was actually all still within the same chase to find Washington’s killers). You have to put in a bit of concentration for it and I’m glad the cop movies of today that are shown in the movies are not like the days of Sylvester Stallone and Jean Claude Van Dam which were just a bunch of cops running around killing people. We find that the cop movies we see now, turn out more to be a system that is filled with deceit, corruption and a lot of puppeteer work. There were also a number of lines, that were meant to be taken seriously, but one just can’t help but burst out laughing. Hmmm.. what does that say about the audience? We like dark humour? I quite pity Tom Ludlow, as he was used quite a bit in the film. Like a dog on a leash. Go watch it and you’ll see what I mean. I’m giving it a 7.5 /10. ^_^