Keanu
Keanu
R | 29 April 2016 (USA)
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Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen cat by posing as drug dealers for a street gang.

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RealLiveClaude

This comedy starring a duo which adapted some caracters they portrayed in a TV show, shows promising, but becomes a bit long. We would have liked to see more of the cat.However, the misadventures of those "misfits" into gangland has its moments, with the references of the late George Michael and Keanu Reeves. And somewhat the cat saves the day at one point...It remains violent at times when too much of gunplay is seen. And crude language as well. Watch it just if you would like an idea how it is to meddle with gangland wars...And yeah, the cat makes it well...

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Stepan Voronenko

Personally, i like gangsta movies. I like the style,jokes are good to me, but this one particular movie suffers from being filled with too much dialogue, and so less action. Opening scene made very good, then you realize that music made for this movie is also being a parody to action movies in a good way. Everything is a parody in this movie. Some scenes remind me of a GTA video games. Story is OK, and the kitten is indeed very cute. I would recommend watching this. And at the same point i m not. I give this a 5/10 for very long and sometime pointless dialogues.

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grantss

Clarence (Keegan-Michael Key) is a conservative suburbanite with a wife and child. His cousin, Rell (Jordan Peele), is a bong-smoking slacker. Then one day Rell finds a kitten on his doorstep and immediately takes it in. He names the kitten Keanu. A few weeks later, in a case of mistaken identity, members of the Blips drug gang break into his house, ransack it and take Keanu. Rell and Clarence set off into Blips territory to recover Keanu.Only watched this because it stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. Loved their comedy show, Key and Peele, and a full-length comedy feature film starring them sounded promising.The movie certainly retains much of the trademark Key and Peele humour. Add in an absurd-yet-fun plot and a cute kitten and you have a good comedy movie. Some great scenes and lines. Key and Peele are in fine form in the lead roles, with spot-on delivery and the wonderful comedic chemistry that their TV show demonstrated.Not brilliant though. As with many transitions from TV to film, the momentum and ideas seem to diminish as the movie goes on - the core plot line proves difficult to sustain for 90+ minutes. The comedy is still there, but the movie becomes more uneven the further into it you go. Some pretty weak scenes towards the end. The plot becomes quite haphazard and farcical.Overall, however, Keanu is good fun and well worth watching.

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Wizard-8

I feel I should first confess that before sitting down to watch this movie, I had seen very little of the comedy team of Key and Peele. Though the little I had seen of them showed the duo had charm and amusing humor. And "Keanu" proved to be a good showcase of showing the two's talents. Actually, I didn't laugh out loud too many times while watching the movie (though there ARE some genuine laughs here and there), but the movie's constant amusing tone did leave me with a smile on my lips throughout. And while the movie does definitely earn an "R" rating, director Peter Atencio directs all this adult material in a way that doesn't feel heavy handed or raunchy at all, instead giving it a surprisingly agreeable tone. The movie is to a degree kind of predictable (I early on guessed what the "deus ex machina" twist that happened near the end would be), and there are a few plot points that are kind of unclear (like how the hit men in the opening scene of the movie escaped from the cops). But the movie as a whole is pleasant to watch.Oh, and the kitten is indeed cute.

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