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The Nice Guys
Why this pick
Its mismatched, out-of-their-depth duo and shaggy criminal plot deliver the same blend of action, profanity-laced banter, and cheerfully ridiculous escalation.
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MOVIE2016 1h 39m USA
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The Other Guys
Why this pick
This similarly sends unlikely, socially awkward partners into a disproportionately large crime plot, using macho posturing and sudden action for big comic reversals.
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Midnight Run
Why this pick
Its cranky odd-couple chemistry, comic criminal peril, and increasingly chaotic chase make it a strong older counterpart to Keanu's buddy-driven mayhem.
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Hot Fuzz
Why this pick
It pairs affectionate genre parody with real stakes and precision-timed action, creating the same satisfying collision between suburban normality and ludicrous violence.
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Why this pick
For Keanu's pleasure in ordinary men play-acting confidence amid a dangerous underworld, this offers an exuberant buddy dynamic and self-aware action-comedy escalation.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Smoke and Oil Dresden (Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key), a pair of assassins known as the "Allentown Brothers", enter a drug-processing facility run by a Mexican drug cartel and kill everyone inside, including the boss King Diaz. The pair take Diaz's cat Iglesias, but when they are momentarily distracted by policemen arriving, the cat escapes. Meanwhile, Rell (also played by Peele) has just been dumped by his girlfriend; he finds the cat on his doorstep, takes an immediate liking to it, and names it Keanu. Rell's cousin Clarence (also played by Key) comes over to cheer him up and meets Keanu as well.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jordan Peele
Rell Williams / Oil Dresden
Keegan-Michael Key
Clarence Goobril / Smoke Dresden
Tiffany Haddish
Hi-C
Darrell Britt-Gibson
Trunk
Jason Mitchell
Bud
Nia Long
Hannah
Madison Wolfe
Alexis
Jordyn A. Davis
Belle