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.
6 January 1977, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
15 March 1975, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 April 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 June 1964, Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
14 December 1970, San Diego, California, USA
21 June 1950, New York City, New York, USA
14 September 1981, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
16 November 1984, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
29 June 1978, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
30 May 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 April 1970, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
28 November 1967, Houston, Texas, USA
27 March 1975, Whittier, California, USA
26 March 1948, Yonkers, New York, USA
17 October 1969, La Plaine, Haiti
13 August 1964, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
20 August 1970, Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
25 August 1949, Tirat Carmel, Israel
September 30, 2010
Watered-down sequel isn't meant for kids.
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.
April 18, 2009
Self-mocking jokes prevail in F. Gary Gray's feisty cinematic version of Elmore Leonard's irreverent Los Angeles based novel.
February 11, 2012
Be Cool isn't the biting satire that Get Shorty was. It's lighter, hipper, and, yes, more fun.
April 06, 2010
I was really glad when it was over.
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!'
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.
March 05, 2005
The movie feels more like a cavalcade of personalities than anything resembling a story.
September 10, 2006
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March 05, 2005
Be Cool lacks both a focus and an edge, making it an amorphous mess.

