or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
More Buying Choices
63 used & new from $8.84
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
or
Get a $2.25 Amazon.com Gift Card
 
   
Express Checkout with PayPhrase
What's this? | Create PayPhrase
Sorry!
X
Street Kings (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]
 
See larger image 
Share your own customer images

Street Kings (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] (2008)

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker Director: David Ayer Rating: R (Restricted) Format: Blu-ray
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (83 customer reviews)
List Price: $39.99
Price: $25.49 & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Details
You Save: $14.50 (36%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

Want it delivered Tuesday, November 10? Choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. Details
31 new from $11.39 31 used from $8.84 1 collectible from $42.95
• What is Digital Copy? It's a product (DVD or Blu-ray disc) that includes an additional digital file of the film or TV show. You can transfer the file in just minutes onto your computer or portable media player. Learn more in our Digital Copy store
Also Available in: List Price: Our Price: Other Offers:
DVD $19.98 $13.99 151 used & new from $1.00
Video On Demand
Amazon Video On Demand
Amazon Video On Demand Special Offer
Purchase any DVD or Blu-ray and receive $5 towards select TV shows at Amazon Video On Demand. Here's how (restrictions apply).

Frequently Bought Together

Street Kings (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] + Pride and Glory (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] + Righteous Kill [Blu-ray]
Total List Price: $108.96
Price For All Three: $50.47

Show availability and shipping details

  • This item: Street Kings (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] DVD ~ Keanu Reeves

    In Stock.
    Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
    This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Details

  • Pride and Glory (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] DVD ~ Edward Norton

    In Stock.
    Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
    Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details

  • Righteous Kill [Blu-ray] DVD ~ Robert De Niro

    In Stock.
    Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
    Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details

Special Offers and Product Promotions

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Street Kings (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]
90% buy the item featured on this page:
Street Kings (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] 3.8 out of 5 stars (83)
$25.49
Hard Action Blu-ray 3-Pack (Hitman / Street Kings / Man on Fire) [Blu-ray]
3% buy
Hard Action Blu-ray 3-Pack (Hitman / Street Kings / Man on Fire) [Blu-ray] 4.0 out of 5 stars (6)
$38.49
Valkyrie [Blu-ray]
3% buy
Valkyrie [Blu-ray] 3.9 out of 5 stars (183)
$19.99
Taken [Blu-ray]
2% buy
Taken [Blu-ray] 4.2 out of 5 stars (300)
$19.99
Explore similar items

Product Details

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Street Kings is a pungent bouquet of corruption, violence, multi-ethnic mayhem, macho glee laced with macho angst, and fluorescently obscene dialogue from the mind of James Ellroy. Its hero, though he'd scarcely consent to be called one, is L.A. police detective Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves), for whom life is a wound that won't heal and dealing out retribution to scumbags is the ongoing treatment. Ludlow's the star player--"the tip of the [expletive] spear"--on a team of detectives headed by Capt. Jack Wander (Forest Whitaker). Coach Wander relies on his boys to keep breaking lurid cases, usually through deeply darkside underground work, and raising his profile with the media and the department. In pursuit of these goals, nothing is forbidden except failure, and the truth is what you make it look like. This is familiar Ellroy territory, most effectively translated to the screen in L.A. Confidential (which should have won the 1997 Oscar, and would have if Titanic hadn't launched that year). If you know Ellroy's ground game, you can pretty much guess where Street Kings is going, and where it's been. Still, the twists and torques of its urban road-rage course maintain the centrifugal force needed to hold us in our seats (a tactical highlight: refrigerator adapted as rolling barricade), and the movie keeps bopping us with oddball casting coups: comic Jay Mohr and Northern Exposure/Sex and the City veteran John Corbett as two members of Coach Warden's gonzo detective squad; Cedric the Entertainer doing a nicely nuanced turn as a street creature; Hugh Laurie doing a less-hyper version of House, if House worked Internal Affairs.

The problem is that director David Ayer keeps everything intense. Dialogues are shot too close-up, line readings are too strident, the action is too nonstop slam. Recall Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confidential and the mind's eye summons up a whole spectrum of existence, mood, place, historical period, emotional investment; there's an amplitude to the picture and the sensibility bringing it to us, something besides the whodunit and the endless rap sheet of nasty what-they-done. Everything in Street Kings is one-note, and with Keanu Reeves playing it implosive and Forest Whitaker locked in crazier-than-an-outhouse-rat mode, that's no way to stay the course. --Richard T. Jameson

Beyond Steet Kings on DVD

Jumper on DVD
Shutter on DVD
Untraceable on DVD



Stills from Street Kings (Click for larger image)










Product Description

Disc 1: **Widescreen Feature Film **Commentary by Director David Ayer **Commentary by Forest Whitaker and Keanu Reeves **15 Deleted Scenes **10 Alternate Tracks **5 Vignettes **4 Behind The Scenes **Street Rules: Rolling with David Ayer and Jaime Fitz Simons **La Bete Noir: Writing Street Kings **Street Cred **Under Surveillance: Inside the World of Street Kings **HBO First Look- City of Fallen Angels: Making Street Kings

Disc 2: Digital Copy

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

88 Minutes (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]

88 Minutes (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]

DVD ~ Al Pacino
2.6 out of 5 stars (82)  $15.49
Deception [Blu-ray]

Deception [Blu-ray]

DVD ~ Hugh Jackman
2.8 out of 5 stars (33)  $26.99
Bank Job [Blu-ray]

Bank Job [Blu-ray]

DVD ~ Jason Statham
3.9 out of 5 stars (91) 
What Happens in Vegas [Blu-ray]

What Happens in Vegas [Blu-ray]

DVD ~ Maddie Corman
3.5 out of 5 stars (77)  $25.49
The Happening (Special Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

The Happening (Special Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

DVD ~ Mark Wahlberg
2.3 out of 5 stars (418)  $19.99
› Explore similar items

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
 
(17)
(6)
(4)
(3)
(2)
(2)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
See all 13 tags...

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags
 

Customer Reviews

83 Reviews
5 star:
 (23)
4 star:
 (35)
3 star:
 (16)
2 star:
 (7)
1 star:
 (2)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
3.8 out of 5 stars (83 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Exciting police drama, April 20, 2008
By Kelley Hunt (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
Keanu Reeves has come a long way as an actor. If you watch his early films you can see how he struggles to make his emotions authentic, without always succeeding. I think this was a break-through film for him. He is very believable as Tom Ludlow the soused "street fighter" cop who bends and breaks rules to get the job done. Whether he is romancing his gal, grieving over a dead cop, or exploding with rage - the emotions feel "real". And he is even more handsome than he was in his youth.
This was an exciting film from start to finish. There is not one dull moment where your mind begins to wander. The soundtrack was excellent- a menacing heartbeat that always forewarns us of dangers to come. The beautifully done cinematography included vivid colors, wrenching close-ups and sweeping panoramas of L.A. Great work! I think it is too bad that so many movie critics gave this one luke-warm reviews because "Street Kings" is a good film worth seeing. I know I will be eagerly awaiting the dvd release.
Comment Comment (1) | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining Modern Update to LA Confidential, August 5, 2008
By Senor Zoidbergo (Washington D.C.) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)      
This review is from: Street Kings (Special Edition + Digital Copy) (DVD)
I was intrigued when I heard that writer James Ellroy, of LA Confidential fame, was attached to this movie. Street Kings plays like a modern version of LA Confidential, albeit much darker and more cynical.

You have similar parallels to the original LA Confidential. Chris Evans of Fantastic Four fame, plays Detective Paul Diskant, more akin to the idealistic Guy Pearce. Keanu Reeves, no introduction needed, plays the bruiser type with an honest heart- more along the lines of Russell Crowe's Bud White. Lastly, Forrest Whittaker gives an entertaining performance as the politically savvy and corrupt vice squad captain, much like James Cromwell's Captain Dudley Smith.

Keanu put on some weight for the movie, I found his performance fine. He's often criticized for being too wooden, but I didn't notice anything that detracted from his performance. It's a genre movie, so certain plot points are predictable, yet I was also pleasantly surprised by a few twists.

If you liked LA Confidential, and are looking for the modern update, then look no further.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars 3 ½ Stars: Once You Open your Eyes..., August 20, 2008
By Woopak "The THRILL" (Where Dark Asian Knights Dwell) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)      
This review is from: Street Kings (DVD)
STREET KINGS is the latest police thriller by director David Ayer, responsible for other police thrillers such as "Training Day" and "Dark Blue". Police corruption has been the main theme for most police dramas, and this film is no different. The screenplay by James Elroy is full of intrigue and bleakness that delves into the dark side of the LAPD.

Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) is a cop on the edge, an alcoholic and would stoop to the most extreme measures to solve a crime; usually his suspects turn out dead. He does get the job done though, and is favored by his commanding officer, Captain Jack Wander (Forest Whitaker). As a result, Tom's past sins have been covered up for years, he works tightly in a special unit and his existence is a melting pot of violence and death. One day, his former partner (Terry Crews) becomes an informant for Internal Affairs, is killed in a convenience store shooting. The incident had awakened some "intestinal fortitude" in Tom, and now he must find those responsible along with a young detective (Chris Evans). Little do they know that they are opening up a huge can of worms.

"Street Kings" does have all the elements I like in a cop film; it's gritty, very violent and fast-paced. The film isn't going to be recognized for originality, it has all the usual formulas we've all seen before; corrupt authority figures and the hunger for money and power. The film does do one thing right and it does convince the audience that it is worth watching. The heavy and mean dialogue combined with gunfights which are quite bloody and full of intensity, it has all the qualities of a film that any male movie fan would love. The director understands what he has set out to do, and he has structured the film to move as pure adrenaline as it goes through the insides and outs of the LAPD. The film is full of detail as to how and why the corruption is inherent in the "cop system".

The screenplay plays a bit like a morality play as hotshot cop; Tom Ludlow goes through the workings of evidence tampering and cover ups. Tom's character is a man who barely sees injustice due to the things he has seen; his phrase "Bad creates more Bad" actually sums up his bleak view of his world. The script is full of "bad language" that it sometimes makes Tom's use of complex terms a little out of place. Keanu Reeves is a decent actor in my book, but I did somehow see his limits with this role.

The film does have a complex plot and is quite intense, and this is where the problems begin. The film needed to breathe at times and relax and let all its complexities settle in. The unraveling of its main twist in the third act seemed a little too `cardboard' that seemed to fail its maze of intrigue and controversy in the film's set up. The film made a compelling point when it made the darkness of the police system come full circle, with a lot of paranoia and mistrust that suggested a strong clever resolution to all the mayhem. I expected something more than a climax full of cliché that is quite familiar in action films. Forest Whitaker's final speech seemed a little too melodramatic that the film's primary set up just didn't match up.

It would be really difficult to express as to why I would say "Street Kings" is a good film because honestly, it did have a lot of faults. Some parts of the investigation seemed a little too convenient and too easy, while the final act seemed to lose much of its forward momentum when it proved less than stimulating as I've hoped for. However, I did enjoy "STREET KINGS"; it's full of attitude and the sharp-tongued dialogue did convince me to look beyond its holes. Director Ayer knew the film's limits and knew exactly what he needed to do in order to hide its flaws. It does provide an exciting ride while seeing through the eyes of a burned-out cop. The film is cleverly paced, and its action and grittiness will definitely see you enjoying its tough-guy thrills with a lot of bloodshed and body count.

Recommended! [3 ½ Stars]


Comment Comments (16) | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Extraordinary
'Street Kings' is a typical story of Cops using alternate methods to fight the crime. Result... some of the schemes does not look ethical. Read more
Published 9 days ago by Debjyoti Guha

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific Popcorn Action Thriller. Perfect For A Suspense/Action-Packed Movie Marathon. Plot Twists Abound.
Not a movie I would buy, but the plot twists in this sleek action/suspense thriller abound. Keanu Reeves, Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker, Chris Evans & Hugh Laurie star in... Read more
Published 1 month ago by HAMLET

3.0 out of 5 stars 5 for production values; 2 for plot
Street Kings is a slick, well designed movie with a compact, tightly woven script. Sets, lighting, acting, props, join together to make a brilliant visual mosaic but it's a... Read more
Published 2 months ago by JackOfMostTrades

5.0 out of 5 stars Street Kings
Have been looking forward to this movie since learning Hugh Laurie
was in it. Was very pleased to see Hugh do something so different from
his comedy from England &... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jeanne Arnold

4.0 out of 5 stars street kings
I'M NOT A HUGE KEANU REEVES FAN, HE HAS BEEN IN A COUPLE MOVIES I LIKE, FOR INSTANCE " THE MATRIX ". Read more
Published 4 months ago by CRUCIFIX

4.0 out of 5 stars A fine performance from Keanu Reeves
If I could give this film half stars, I would give this 3 1/2, but it is better than my typical 3.

This one has a re'sume' that harkens back to 'L.A. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Charles Jannuzi

2.0 out of 5 stars Training Day II
They could have simply called this Training Day II because there really wasn't any "fresh" ground covered in this film that Training Day didn't already cover in that film. Read more
Published 5 months ago by phoong dan

5.0 out of 5 stars Gritty
Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker give outstanding performances in this gritty, action packed corrupt cop genre film. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Damian P. Gadal

3.0 out of 5 stars Tough to like any of the characters
Keanu Reeves stars in this movie where all the cops are bad. Just some are worse than others. Pretty bleak, and none of the characters are very like-able, making it tough to... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Alan Starr

3.0 out of 5 stars Keanu Is Good - Ending Could've Been Better
Street Kings started off well. But somewhere along the line, even with James Ellroy at the story's helm and a strong cast, Keanu Reeves despite his best performance can't quite... Read more
Published 6 months ago by G. YEO

Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
Why no extras? 2 September 2008
Found it at a store on Aug. 12 0 August 2008
No soundtrack available? 0 April 2008
› See all 3 discussions...  
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
   

So You'd Like to...


Create a guide

Product Information from the Amapedia Community

Beta (What's this?)

Look for Similar Items by Category

Look for Similar Items by Subject

Search Movies & TV by subject:


















i.e., each DVD must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...
 

Feedback

If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us.
 Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
Is there any other feedback you would like to provide?

Your comments can help make our site better for everyone.


Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.