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Be Cool
Chili is looking for new horizons and thinks he may have found his niche when his close friend, a fellow mobster who runs an independent record label, is murdered by Russian gangsters. Chili takes over the company, and begins the poor friend's girlfriend.
14 September 1981, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
21 June 1954, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
17 October 1969, La Plaine, Haiti
19 January 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 April 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 June 1974, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
28 November 1974, Philippines
February 11, 2012
Be Cool isn't the biting satire that Get Shorty was. It's lighter, hipper, and, yes, more fun.September 30, 2010
Watered-down sequel isn't meant for kids.March 07, 2005
You know a sequel isn't working when, ten minutes into the movie, a voice inside your head starts screaming, 'Please make it stop!'September 10, 2006
click to read review [Greek]March 05, 2005
The movie feels more like a cavalcade of personalities than anything resembling a story.March 07, 2005
One of the cuddliest, cutest movies you'll ever see about mobsters and murderers.March 04, 2005
It's kind of -- hmmmm, less than good, a little better than not bad, almost all right, mediocre without being grating, sort of in the C-minus-to-C-minus-minus range.March 05, 2005
Be Cool lacks both a focus and an edge, making it an amorphous mess.January 07, 2011
Be Cool sounds like it should be good, or at least entertaining, but it's neither. It does have some genuinely fun moments, but lacks a strong narrative to hang them off of. The result is empty, full of contrivances, and ultimately unsatisfying.June 08, 2005
The characters are still engaging, but the story is a mess this time around.April 06, 2010
I was really glad when it was over.April 18, 2009
Self-mocking jokes prevail in F. Gary Gray's feisty cinematic version of Elmore Leonard's irreverent Los Angeles based novel.