You won't be disappointed!

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Be Cool is anything but hot.John Travolta once again is Chili Davis, a hot-shot former gangster turned movie person, who is bored with that so he is now focusing on the music industry.We see about the worse side of the industry and the movie becomes one big confusing mess with groups of gangsters trying to outsmart one another, as Chili is constantly able to talk himself out of a bullet.The one and only good thing about this movie is that singer who Travolta finds, but unfortunately, she is under contract to the likes of another gangster, Harvey Keitel.

There's a line in Be Cool that sums up the whole film for me. Stephen Tyler shows up and, upon seeing Uma Thurman, says, "Look at how those legs come together and make an ass out of themselves!" It's a cringe worthy, groan inducing, forced line that tries to be hip and cool and clever. But it isn't, and neither is this movie. There are a number of little "aren't they clever?" lines and scenes and they all, without exception, flop.When Travolta and Thurman get up and dance it's supposed to evoke the twist contest from Pulp Fiction, but it's nowhere near as stylish and evocative. Worse, it doesn't really add to the overall plot (of which there is very little). The Pulp Fiction scene was a crucial part of the story, full of tension and desire, but here it seems it's only done so the viewer will say, "Hey! That's just like the Pulp Fiction scene! Aren't they clever?"I hate characters like Vince Vaughn's jive talking fool, and the other gangsters are just stupid. Worst of all is Travolta as he sleepwalks through this role, looking older than his character should be. He and Thurman display almost none of the chemistry they had in Pulp Fiction. When the two of them come together, they make an ass out of themselves.Hey! Did you catch that last line? Isn't it cool and hip and clever? No, it's not, and neither is this film. Watch Get Shorty again if you want to see Travolta in an entertaining movie. Not this. It's definitely not cool.

"Everybody BE COOL. You, BE COOL." An early line from a memorable scene in a film that I really rather like, that being 1996's From Dusk Till Dawn. Clooney's demand was the crescendo to a series of threats directed at a petrified shop clerk outlining exactly what he expected from him in his behaviour as a state trooper messed about off screen in another room. The line was straight out of a script penned by Quentin Tarantino, with said feature released at a time when he was hitting the sorts of heights most American film-makers in the then-recent times could only dream of. Skip forward to early 2005, and the F. Gary Gray film entitled "Be Cool", an adaptation of a novel by Elmore Leonard of the same name which THINKS it's a film running on a Tarantino script, but in actual fact, is a bit of a turgid mess.John Travolta is back playing gangster gone-straight Chilli Palmer, a man whom has been working in the American film business out in L.A. for a good ten years following the conclusion of 1995's Get Shorty from whence this is a sequel. Palmer's been doing well, he's a legal businessman whom retains some of the old threatening abilities and criminally infused characteristics to help business tick by. But Palmer's become a little disenchanted with the industry; angry at new censorship rules and the manner in which Hollywood is so enthused in churning out good-for-nothing sequels, the likes of which end up allowing its smiling leads, in Danny De Vito's fictional actor Martin Weir, to fall out of nightclubs named things like 'The Viper' arm-in-arm with a hooker. De Vito occupies a prominent place on the film's poster: be aware this is all he has to do in the film. Frustrated, annoyed and somewhat eerily unperturbed following a near death encounter during a drive-by hit on music industry tycoon Tommy Athens (Woods), Palmer shifts careers and breezes into said business to get some fire back in his life.The film remains interesting for a while longer when he chances upon young Linda Moon (Milian) dancing in a club, a talented and promising singer whom struggles to make ends meet as she potters around in an old, beat up car as woefully vacuous gangsta' rap artists prevail monumentally in the intrepid rolling out of a new rap song every so often. After Moon makes such an impression on Palmer, he makes a move so as to remove her from a dead end contract with Vince Vaughn's ridiculous gangster-come-manager Raji and into his new set up with a company formerly run by drive-by victim Athens. Meanwhile, record producer Nick Carr (Keitel) is a sleazy, misogynist man inhabiting this sickly effective auditorium decked out in 1970s mise-en-scene from whence he constructs his sordid, commercialised ideas linked to girl groups. This is as good as it gets, with Gray's shifting of Palmer into the music industry not half as interesting as Levinson's shifting of him into the movie business - for those whom had a lukewarm reaction to Get Shorty, this speaks volumes.The best thing about Get Shorty was Dennis Farina's angry, loud mouthed Miami gangster Ray Barboni; the film sagging whenever he wasn't on screen involved in some of the film's funniest material. Who cold forget his tirade directed at a cab driver about local beaches? Here, there is no Farina: just a woeful Uma Thurman doing the worst rendition of a woman in a state of grieving probably ever put to film; a dull Dwayne Johnson playing homosexual bodyguard Elliot therefore acting as the butt of every homophobic joke you can think of and a character in Vince Vaughn's Raji so absurd and so unbelievable that we entrust his entire character as a mere act until he is dangled over the edge of a thirty storey balcony and yet retains both the voice; mannerisms and demeanour that he has done throughout up to this point - the joke was on us. The characters are ineffectual cartoons whom just happened to be inhabiting a world of hard boiled fiction; while the last time I saw Travolta and Keitel on screen together, they had a dead body on their hands and one was helping the other dispose of it in 1994's Pulp Fiction. No Winston Wolf clean up operation would ever be enough to bail everybody out of this mess. Additionally; there's a sad, knowing irony behind The Rock's presence. He's effectively playing himself, in that he's a struggling actor whom comes with a reputation and wants 'in' on the big time, although can only do really badly with an unflattering role he eventually gets: much like here. None of Gray's previous films have bothered me as much as Be Cool, arriving in the 90s from a career in music video production, about a twentieth of this film IS a music video. Recently I was lucky enough to have seen a British film from 2008 entitled Flashbacks of a Fool; the director was a certain Baillie Walsh, and himself came from a background directing music videos. Characters danced and sung together in that film, often in slow motion, but Walsh is a director whom knows when and where to apply such scenes so as to instill feeling and emotion therein, thus enabling them to resonate with the viewer. Gray appears to believe the sheer novelty of having Travolta and Thurman mincing around on a dance-floor during one sequence is enough to instill his film with a certain sense of something, when it just comes across as daft and intrepid. Oh how he, and all of those that enjoyed the film, are wrong. Be Cool crosses that line which separates intelligent pastiche from collective backslapping; the gags about rock stars making cameos and such are funny, but only to the makers of this whom are surely laughing unforgivably back at us.

Based on Elmore Leonard's novel, 'Be Cool' is an all around entertainer. Sequel to 'Get Shorty', Travolta is back as Chili Palmer and Danny Devito makes two cameo appearances. The rest of the fabulous cast includes the sensational Uma Thurman, a hilarious Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, Andre Benjamin, Robert Pastorelli and Christina Milian. Harvey Keitel proves to be very good in comedy but the real surprise is Dwayne Johnson who shows a knack for being funny and probably has the funniest role. F. Gary Gray does a neat job. The jokes work excellently. The film is well-paced and the writing is consistent. Steinfeld does a good job of rewriting Leonard's book for the big screen. The humour works excellently. None of the jokes fall flat and the cast and crew seem to have had a blast making this film. It's a shame that the film wasn't as big a success as it's prequel. Frankly, I enjoyed it more than 'Get Shorty'. Above all, 'Be Cool' is a splendid entertainer that will draw loads of laughs.