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75All About the Benjamins has: flash, cash, and enough videogenic eye candy to make ''Miami Vice'' look like ''Little House on the Prairie.''
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70Did what I had yet to see any other entrant in this arena do, it crossed generational lines and had 18 year-olds and 50 year-olds talking about the merits of the same film.... and that is truly it’s greatest accomplishment.
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63It's fun to watch the stocky, scowling Ice Cube and skinny, jittery Epps play off each other; they click on screen.
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63This is a movie fantasy, folks -- like James Bond, without the smarm and martinis.
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58This is Epps' showcase. He can't cover all the film's flaws, but he'll sure gab your ear off trying.
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50Unfortunately, the home-run performances of Cube and Epps are handicapped by inept and illogical action sequences.
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50The strange case of a movie that clunks in every possible way but the ultimate way -- it entertains.
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50Such overkill might seem like an asset to teenage boys (and those who think like them). The rest of us are better off not wasting our Washingtons.
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50Oddly, the most appealing thing about the movie is that in an age of ever-escalating special effects, it's refreshingly low-tech, more like a '70s action movie than a modern-day one.
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42Something puddles to nothing in this relentless Miami sun.
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40This is high school fantasy straight outta Compton. As such, it has a certain compelling enthusiasm.
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40Glitz and speed help alleviate cavernous plot holes and rote gangsta misogyny, while the gleeful violence, pointlessly sappy lulls, and racial sparring are leavened a bit by capricious auto-critique.
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40Its dark-edged crime-caper plot is so formulaic it seems almost ritualized. Yet Ice Cube and Mike Epps enact their standard odd-couple tango with such ease and brio, you'd think they'd never seen such movies before.
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40Boilerplate crime comedy.
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38Those who need little more than a car chase, gunplay, pretty girls and a solid soundtrack will be entertained. And Ice Cube fans won't be disappointed. Everyone else may want to think twice before shelling out hard-earned dollars.
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38Director Kevin Bray, whose clichéd style betrays his music-video roots, devotes far too much time to the mechanics of the illogical plot.
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38Ice Cube possesses real screen presence, and it's a shame to see him squander his talents here. He and Epps made me laugh in "Next Friday." They made me squirm here.
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38Strings of four-letter words are a poor substitute for dialogue, and it's not until the movie is almost over that someone realizes there's no reason, other than assumed macho posturing, for Cube's character to go after these bad guys so hard.
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30A witless, bloody, unpleasant mismatched-buddy movie.
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30This movie, a chaotic caper film at heart, wrecks its comic tone with some moments of gruesome violence.
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30Plays like a knockoff of Michael Bay's already derivative and much more fun "Bad Boys," only with even less plot. It also recalls the worst qualities of John Singleton's mean-spirited "Shaft."
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The whole movie feels stiff and awkward whenever the actors stop chasing each other long enough to talk.
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20The unnecessary nastiness, even sadism, of much of the violence also bears mentioning if you're expecting more of the benignly cartoonish silliness of Cube's lone directing effort, "The Players Club."
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20The comedy is tepid, the action is dopey and even the violence is boring and occasionally cruel.
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20You can laugh with or without irony. Or you can simply stay away.
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It's painful watching a talented thespian diminish himself so. It's clear he did it for the Benjamins.
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