Keanu (2016)

Personally, i like gangsta movies. I like the style,jokes are good to me, but this one particular movie suffers from being filled with too much dialogue, and so less action. Opening scene made very good, then you realize that music made for this movie is also being a parody to action movies in a good way. Everything is a parody in this movie. Some scenes remind me of a GTA video games. Story is OK, and the kitten is indeed very cute. I would recommend watching this. And at the same point i m not. I give this a 5/10 for very long and sometime pointless dialogues.

I love comedy and my wife tolerates that so when I can get her to watch a comedy with me, I am really hoping she will like it. Once we finished the movie the very first thing she said was "boring" and sadly I have to agree with her. If I had not read in the film synopsis that the main character had just suffered a breakup with his girlfriend, it would have been easy to miss. That part was very much rushed and not well developed. And that is how the rest of the movie went. It was like a series of skits strung together most of which were not very well developed and only loosely tied together. I really wanted to like this movie ... which for me made it tolerable. It was a bit humorous at times, but no real LOL moments ... simply a few chuckles once in awhile. The best part of the movie was the cat and they did do a few creative things with the cat, but other than that this is not a movie I would ever watch again or recommend to a friend.

A promising film considering the talent involved however it falls short. Still worth watching for a few laughs here and there. I just feel that if Key and Peele directed this, it would have been funnier. Anyway, the movie is about two friends who go undercover into the ghetto in order to save their pet cat, hilariously named Keanu.. which means cool breeze in Hawaiian. So yeah, the concept behind the movie are right up Key and Peele's wheelhouse. But honestly this film should have been better. I would blame the director but now that I think about it, frankly the writing is lacking the comedic punch needed to make this a classic comedy, which it should have been.

So glad I didn't pay to see this mess in theaters. I love key & Peele's sketch comedy and throw in the always beautiful Nia Long for good measure and you have my attention; plus, I'm a cat lover to boot. All that said, as others have noted this thinly plotted violent comedy is just a series of sketches that drag on way too long. This would have made a funny 30 minute special episode. But at 100 minutes, it's just one over-long scene after another. Yes, there are other things Key and Peele are trying to do in addition to the laughs. But a comedy is first and foremost judged on being funny, not a chore to sit through.Let's just forget this first (and hopefully not the last) feature film outing from this duo and remember them for a great TV show and fitting send off for Pres. Obama.