Rating: PG13
Genre:
Crime
Theatrical Release: 03/04/2005(USA)
Release Date: 06/07/2005
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol/Cantonese/Manda
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 120 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Adult Humor, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: MGM
Underworld hipster
Chili Palmer is back in the entertainment business in this sequel to the 1995 hit
Get Shorty, which like the first film is based on a novel by
Elmore Leonard. Gangster-turned-movie producer
Chili (once again played by
John Travolta) has grown tired of the screen trade, especially after his latest project turned out to be a box-office flop.
Chili is looking for new horizons and thinks he may have found his niche when his close friend
Tommy Athens (
James Woods), a fellow mobster who runs an independent record label, is murdered by Russian gangsters.
Chili takes over
Athens' record company, Nothing to Lose Records, and begins courting
Tommy's girlfriend,
Edie (
Uma Thurman).
Edie is an experienced hand in record production, and together she and
Chili spot what would seem to be the ideal act for their label --
Linda Moon (
Christina Milian), a beautiful young woman with a powerhouse voice.
Linda is stuck, however, in a going-nowhere
R&B trio managed by the monumentally sleazy
Raji (
Vince Vaughn).
Chili isn't much concerned about
Linda's contract with
Raji, but
Raji certainly is, and the manager soon takes out a contract on
Chili with the same Russian hoods who killed
Tommy. Soon
Chili is facing all the action he can handle between the Russian gunmen, a music mogul named
Nick Carr (
Harvey Keitel) who wants
Chili to stay out of the business, and
Sin LaSalle (
Cedric the Entertainer), a successful
hip-hop producer who wants
Chili to pay him the 300,000 dollars he is owed by
Tommy.
Be Cool also features appearances by
The Rock as a gay Samoan bodyguard,
Andre Benjamin (aka
Andre 3000 from the
hip-hop duo
Outkast) as a rapper who isn't very good with a gun, and
Aerosmith frontman
Steven Tyler as himself.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
