Get Shorty

So if I had been slightly intelligent, I would have realised that this is the prequel to Be Cool and I would've watched this one first and posted it first.

I loved this film. I loved them both. The addition of Danny DeVito is awesome and deffinately warrants the name get shorty. I love how they managed to link the two films together at the end.

Travolta's role as a loan shark that switches to producing movies is a genius role. Travolta has that look that can kill if he wants to. He makes people more gangster than him shake with fear at the sight of him. Style and elegance and linked with his character as well as a love for films that kinda reminds me of Tony Dinozzo from NCIS.
Gene Hackman manages to play one of the guys that is more mouth than brains and because Travolta is there to clean up his mess he comes out of it ok. Hackman was also great in his role, but nothing beats Rene Russo as a smart actress that can read people and understands films a lot better than Hackman's character. She ends up producing it and being Travolta's women of the film.

This film is worthy of the nominations it received. A refreshing break from serious gangster films that are more shooting than actual film, Get Shorty provides entertainment and action in just the right balance.