Watching a bunch of talented and famous actors having fun in a movie that is parody on every gangster movie they were in is a pure pleasure. Based on the novel written by Elmore Leonard, Peter Steinfeld did an adaptation for the movie and did the screenplay as well, in order to get this movie directed by F. Gary Gray. The whole story revolves around Chili Palmer (John Travolta), who was once a streetwise mob criminal. Later he went into a movie business, placing himself in a chair if a producer, and this time, he is more into music business. As always, he can't switch the aspects like that. There is a vicious Russian mob clan that has their hands on music production and they aren't sharing. Looking tough and doing his thing, he manages to take a young and ambitious singer Linda Moon (Christina Milian) under his protection and does his magic. Along the way he encounters various mobsters who can either help him or harm him. He succeeds in dealing with both groups. And he does everything his way, the Chili way. The situations and persons he encounters along the way are more than hilarious- from Raji (Vince Vaughn), Linda's manager, who thinks he's black, over Elliot (Dwayne Johnson), who thinks he's in 80s, to Russian mob criminals on his back.
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