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Blue Streak

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Blue Streak reviews
46
7.0 User Score:

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Based on 26 critic reviews
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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.

What The Critics Said

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80

TNT RoughCut Matt Kelsey

Lawrence goes the extreme distance to make you fall out of your chair laughing.

75

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.

75

Boston Globe Jim Sullivan

A rather witty, streetwise comedy/action movie with a lot going for it.

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75

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.

75

San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

Apart from Lawrence's goofing, Blue Streak isn't much of a movie.

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75

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.

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75

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.

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70

Film.com Sean Means

A by-the-numbers action-comedy that is greatly enlivened by Lawrence's pugnacious, fast-mouthed style.

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67

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak

In the end, the comedian makes the movie seem better than it really is.

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60

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.

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50

Baltimore Sun Milton Kent

Utterly lightweight.

50

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

The comedian's thankful willingness to do anything for Blue Streak...is its redeeming grace.

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50

Miami Herald Curtis Morgan

The story is stale, action uninspired, pacing lackadaisical. The whole production looks a little cut-rate, too.

50

The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder

The buoyancy is only intermittent.

50

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

It's a dumb movie, but it's good for a few profoundly undemanding laughs.

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50

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.

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40

Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour

(Lawrence) has every right to be proud of carrying this rickety film on his stooped shoulders.

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40

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

The usual valorizing of guns and vigilante justice and tedious action sequences to begin and end the picture.

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40

Time Richard Schickel

Not a bad concept, and Martin Lawrence is appealing. Unfortunately, the writers have no gift for comic writing.

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33

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

How lame have high-concept, no-brain comedies gotten?

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33

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.

30

Washington Post Rita Kempley

A pooped, poorly executed buddy-cop comedy with more cliches than expletives.

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30

Variety Robert Koehler

A dull afterthought and a sorry vehicle for the comic expression of Martin Lawrence.

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30

Dallas Observer Andy Klein

While the idea may be good, its execution is awful.

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25

Chicago Tribune Barbara Shulgasser

Offers two or three worthwhile laughs.

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20

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.

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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.

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