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80Lawrence goes the extreme distance to make you fall out of your chair laughing.
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75A 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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75The 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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75It isn't particularly subtle or original. But it's a good-natured late-summer romp fueled by Lawrence's manic shtick.
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75Apart from Lawrence's goofing, Blue Streak isn't much of a movie.
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75Thinking isn't going to do anyone a bit of good during Blue Streak. Turn off your brain instead and you might enjoy it.
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75A rather witty, streetwise comedy/action movie with a lot going for it.
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70A by-the-numbers action-comedy that is greatly enlivened by Lawrence's pugnacious, fast-mouthed style.
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67In the end, the comedian makes the movie seem better than it really is.
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60The 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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50The story is stale, action uninspired, pacing lackadaisical. The whole production looks a little cut-rate, too.
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50The comedian's thankful willingness to do anything for Blue Streak...is its redeeming grace.
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Utterly lightweight.
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50It's a dumb movie, but it's good for a few profoundly undemanding laughs.
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50Lawrence'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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50The buoyancy is only intermittent.
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40(Lawrence) has every right to be proud of carrying this rickety film on his stooped shoulders.
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40Not a bad concept, and Martin Lawrence is appealing. Unfortunately, the writers have no gift for comic writing.
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40The usual valorizing of guns and vigilante justice and tedious action sequences to begin and end the picture.
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33An empty reminder that Martin Lawrence can be pretty funny, in a spastic, loose-limbed way -- maybe next time he'll get a worthwhile script.
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33How lame have high-concept, no-brain comedies gotten?
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30While the idea may be good, its execution is awful.
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30A dull afterthought and a sorry vehicle for the comic expression of Martin Lawrence.
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30A pooped, poorly executed buddy-cop comedy with more cliches than expletives.
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25Offers two or three worthwhile laughs.
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20(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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Shut up Martin Lawrence.
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6It has the Martin Lawrence stamp. Nothing more. But it's ok :)