Review of Keanu (2016) by Djakeir — 19 Mar 2019

So a movie about a cat. No. It seems that ethnicity and race has always been a source of income and inspiration for Jordan Peele and as much as Get Out was a bore Keanu, despite being on the polar opposite end of genres, doesn't provide an exception to this.

Funny animals deserve to remain on poorly edited YouTube clips or washed up daytime home video TV shows, not made into a film. Similarly the jokes were out of place, in fact they were out of sight, this film failed to make me laugh a single time. Too often the genre of comedy is seen as a free pass to botch a script, story and frankly the film industry, Keanu being a fine example of all of these. I wish some respect was shown to the craft here but like the films point all was lacking. Poor Tiffany Haddish, a promising upcoming comedic actress, is being hindered by recent films such as this and night school. Granted Tiffany managed to create a likeable character you could cling on to in order to survive the 1.5 hours. As a person who likes to laugh with and not at, I have made an observation through watching many failed comedy films is that being loud, frantic and annoying doesn't translate to comedy. Isn't that right Kevin Hart.