Blue Streak

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.

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.

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.

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.

Film.com Sean Means

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

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour

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

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

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

Time Richard Schickel

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

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

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

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.

Variety Robert Koehler

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

Dallas Observer Andy Klein

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

Chicago Tribune Barbara Shulgasser

Offers two or three worthwhile laughs.

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.