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Blue Streak
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Mixed or average reviews
Based on 26 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 5 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Michael Berry
John Blumenthal
Stephen Carpenter
Directed by: Les Mayfield
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 17, 1999
DVD: February 8, 2000
Running Time: 93 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13
Starring Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Peter Greene, Dave Chappelle, Nicole Ari Parker, Graham Beckel, and Robert Miranda
Martin Lawrence plays a jewel thief who impersonates a police officer and teams with an unsuspecting rookie partner (Wilson) in order to recover a diamond he once hid in the police station's ventilation system.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
TNT RoughCut Matt Kelsey
Lawrence goes the extreme distance to make you fall out of your chair laughing.
USA Today Andy Seiler
Thinking isn't going to do anyone a bit of good during Blue Streak. Turn off your brain instead and you might enjoy it.
Boston Globe Jim Sullivan
A rather witty, streetwise comedy/action movie with a lot going for it.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
It isn't particularly subtle or original. But it's a good-natured late-summer romp fueled by Lawrence's manic shtick.
San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
Apart from Lawrence's goofing, Blue Streak isn't much of a movie.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
The plot is formula all the way, but Lawrence has found a way to incorporate the physical techniques of the great silent stars with his standup comic's arsenal, and it's a pleasure to watch him at work.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A Martin Lawrence performance that deserves comparison with Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy, with a touch of Mel Gibson's zaniness in the midst of action.
Read Full Review >Film.com Sean Means
A by-the-numbers action-comedy that is greatly enlivened by Lawrence's pugnacious, fast-mouthed style.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
In the end, the comedian makes the movie seem better than it really is.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Jessica Winter
The contortional physical shtick familiar from Lawrence's sitcom, laden with a dollop of Three Stooges violence, should keep the boys happy.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Milton Kent
Utterly lightweight.
San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
The comedian's thankful willingness to do anything for Blue Streak...is its redeeming grace.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Curtis Morgan
The story is stale, action uninspired, pacing lackadaisical. The whole production looks a little cut-rate, too.
The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder
The buoyancy is only intermittent.
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
It's a dumb movie, but it's good for a few profoundly undemanding laughs.
Read Full Review >Film.com Tom Keogh
Lawrence's style is purely will-it-stick-the-wall-or-not, and when it doesn't he looks pretty puny up there on the big screen.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour
(Lawrence) has every right to be proud of carrying this rickety film on his stooped shoulders.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
The usual valorizing of guns and vigilante justice and tedious action sequences to begin and end the picture.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Schickel
Not a bad concept, and Martin Lawrence is appealing. Unfortunately, the writers have no gift for comic writing.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
How lame have high-concept, no-brain comedies gotten?
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark
An empty reminder that Martin Lawrence can be pretty funny, in a spastic, loose-limbed way -- maybe next time he'll get a worthwhile script.
Washington Post Rita Kempley
A pooped, poorly executed buddy-cop comedy with more cliches than expletives.
Read Full Review >Variety Robert Koehler
A dull afterthought and a sorry vehicle for the comic expression of Martin Lawrence.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Paul Malcolm
(Lawrence)'s not just unfunny, he's coarsely anti-funny. The film just lurches from one dull skit to the next without bite or much of a point.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
[Anonymous] gave it a7:
Decent, somewhat funny entertainment. Some good action here and there.
Pat C. gave it a 3:
I went with this simpleminded fare and actually chuckled a few times while making a mental note to catch more of Lawrence's films. Then got to the end, where the action flip-flopped across an international boundary like a movable feast that wouldn't hold still long enough for me to take a bite. Left hungry. Reconnected brain. Erased mental note.
Maria W. gave it an 8:
Martin Lawrence does it again! He will make you laugh with what he does and what he says!!
[Anonymous] gave it an 8:
This movie is funny.
