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Dominican Rep. Be Cool
- Original title
- Be Cool
- Year
- 2005
- Running time
- 114 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Peter Steinfeld. Novel: Elmore Leonard
- Cast
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John Travolta
Uma Thurman
Vince Vaughn
Harvey Keitel
Dwayne Johnson
Cedric the Entertainer
André Benjamin
Christina Milian
Robert Pastorelli
Paul Adelstein- Alex Kubik
Debi Mazar
Gregory Alan Williams- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy | Sequel. Music. Mafia
- Movie Groups
- Elmore Leonard Adaptations
- Synopsis
- John Travolta is back as Chili Palmer in Be Cool, a sequel to the comedy smash Get Shorty. This time, Chili 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 opportunity to visit the guy’s wife, Edie (Thurman), and pitch himself as her new business partner at an independent record label. With a promising young pop-star-in-training as his protégé (Milian), Chili has to juggle her faux-urban manager (Vaughn), his gay, wannabe-actor bodyguard (The Rock), Russian mobsters, and an eloquent gangsta music producer (Cedric) to save the label and land a hit – and keep from getting popped himself.
- Critics' reviews
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"A hapless comedy that already seems about ten years out of date"
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"'Be Cool' is not really cool as 'Get Shorty' was, but it's entertaining, a frivolous cocktail rather than a vintage wine."
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"A forced and wholly unnecessary sequel"
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"Considered as a sequel, 'Be Cool' is not an insult, but it’s a lazy, rhythmless, and redundant piece of moviemaking"
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"'Be Cool' more often evokes the image of a screenwriter furiously trying draft after draft to accommodate all the stars."
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"A poorly written, directed and acted imitation of the first. Not funny, not clever and, crucially, not cool"
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