Be Cool Critic Reviews

Travolta keeps you grooving even when the movie's motor runs down--although it has never revved too high to begin with.Read the full review

A staggeringly flat sequel that trades filmdom for the music bizbiz and could hardly be less cool.Read the full review

Where there was effortless cool in the first movie, there is nothing but manufactured posing here.Read the full review

Lacks both a focus and an edge, making it an amorphous mess.Read the full review

Manages the dubious trick of being both execrable and boring.Read the full review

Although Travolta is as smooth as ever, the picture is a bust, a grimly unfunny comedy with no connection to reality, and worst of all, running on and on for two dismal hours.Read the full review

Be Cool is not really cool as "Get Shorty" was, but it's entertaining, a frivolous cocktail rather than a vintage wine.Read the full review

The hell of it is, Be Cool is tepid entertainment that could be cool if it spent less time entertaining us as if we were demanding a definition of rhythm.Read the full review

Like the characters, the scenes pile up but go nowhere; the story seems fragmented, the actors unmotivated, unmoored. Mr. Gray has a feel for pulp, but is seriously off his game here.Read the full review