Keanu Reeves' cop chops

Zen-like aloofness. Deadpan line-delivery. A certain dumbstruck cool verging on total blankness. These are some of Keanu Reeves' actorly calling cards -- a skill set that allows him to portray everything from a time-traveling stoner ("Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure") to a Messiah-like demigod (in the "Matrix" trilogy). You wouldn't necessarily associate such dude-itude with gun-toting, perp-busting cop roles. But the star's turn in "Street Kings" marks Reeves' fifth outing as a man with a badge and a mission. Although the 43-year-old might never outgrow nagging expectations that he's going to blurt out "No way!" -- even while packing a Glock and clad in Kevlar -- Reeves has excelled at more than his fair share of police parts.

"Point Break" (1991)

The cop: Special Agent John "Johnny" Utah, a loose-limbed FBI agent with a laconic San Fernando Valley drawl who goes undercover, posing as a surfer/action-sports enthusiast to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers known as the Ex-Presidents. Prone to wearing tight T-shirts (highlighting the then-27-year-old Reeves' newly buff physique), he's the kind of guy who doesn't so much act as react to situations -- but nonetheless would jump out of an airplane without a parachute to get his man.

Key dialogue: "Look, Angelo, you think I joined the FBI to learn how to surf?"

"Speed" (1994)

The cop: Officer Jack Traven, a hard-charging young cop faced with a daunting task: He must diffuse a bomb, which a psychopath has placed on a city bus, that's set to go off should the bus' speed drop below 50 mph. In keeping with Reeves' "minimum output-maximum intake" approach to acting, the character is more apt to jump a bus "Dukes of Hazzard" style across an unfinished freeway overpass than speak more than two sentences of dialogue in a given scene. And, of course, he gets the girl (played by Sandra Bullock).

Key dialogue: "I have to warn you: Relationships based on intense situations never work."

"Constantine" (2005)

The cop: Fair enough, John Constantine isn't exactly a cop, insofar as he was never officially one of the boys in blue. He's a supernatural detective, an exorcism-performing antihero with a crucifix-shaped Gatling gun responsible for enforcing an uneasy peace between angels and hell-spawn on Earth. He's been to hell, of course, chain smokes and, as played by Reeves, delivers jokes so deadpan they are DOA.

Key dialogue: The movie's "whoa bro" moment arrives when Constantine gives Lucifer the middle finger.