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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: The movie lacks anything approaching a rhythm -- which, as everyone knows, is the record business' deadliest sin. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The moment you formally anoint something as cool, you kill the qualities that made it cool to begin with, because coolness has no greater enemy than self-awareness. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Keeps wandering off on tangents, and after a while its audience does, too. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: A bright, colorful misfire. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: The bits with Cedric the Entertainer and his gun-toting posse struck me as a flaming racist outrage, and casting The Rock as a flamboyantly gay actor/singer must have looked funnier on paper. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: One of the cuddliest, cutest movies you'll ever see about mobsters and murderers. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: This stunningly inept movie is an early contender for worst film of 2005. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Even Travolta seems disinterested in this bloated sequel, which revisits all the old gags but doesn't possess a tenth of the energy found in the original. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: What was keenly ridiculous in print seems clueless and uncouth onscreen now. Gray embraces the inanities Leonard seemed to be lampooning. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: 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 more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: I was really glad when it was over. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: There's really no need to pay much attention to the plot. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: It can't decide if it's a comedy or a musical -- rocking ballads by Milian and a duet with Aerosmith's Steven Tyler are sweet interludes but ruinous to any sense of paced humor. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Tepid entertainment. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Nothing is more uncool than trying too hard. Read more
Ken Tucker, New York Magazine/Vulture: Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Travolta's best film in years -- as well as a one-man summation (with occasional sidebars) of what it means to be an icon. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: The book's various thugs, pistol-waving gangstas and Russian mafia are so cartoonishly portrayed they're about as scary as members of the Wile E. Coyote Fan Club. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: John Travolta returns as the reformed mobster he played in Get Shorty. But while Get Shorty rode the Pulp Fiction craze with finesse, Be Cool is running on empty. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: [A] very marginal misfire. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: There's an excess of corn, confusion and chaos in Be Cool, but not much of anything you could call comedy. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It's unchallenging but amusing enough. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Be Cool lacks both a focus and an edge, making it an amorphous mess. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: One character after another, one scene after another, one cute line of dialogue after another, refers to another movie, a similar character, a contrasting image, or whatever. The movie is like a bureaucrat who keeps sending you to another office. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The movie feels more like a cavalcade of personalities than anything resembling a story. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It's instantly forgettable, but smooth fun most of the way. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The only worse thing than starring in a bad movie is using it to call up memories of a time when you were terrific. That's not cool at all. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: If you're looking for a primer on the worst ways to adapt an Elmore Leonard novel, look no further. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Like being spritzed by a bottle of stale seltzer. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: F. Gary Gray seems a clueless bystander, watching the new machine attempt to clone the earlier model's rhythms, gestures, and confidence, but never knowing which switches to flip. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Perfect testament to what Hollywood does best: turn entertaining originals into dull sausage meat. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: It's kind of -- hmmmm, less than good, a little better than not bad, almost all right, mediocre without being grating, sort of in the C-minus-to-C-minus-minus range. Read more