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Blue Streak
Sony Pictures Entertainment

Blue Streak reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 46 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
6.5 out of 10
based on 26 reviews
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MPAA 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.


GENRE(S): Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Michael Berry
John Blumenthal
Stephen Carpenter
 
DIRECTED BY: Les Mayfield  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: February 8, 2000 
Video: February 8, 2000 
Theatrical: September 17, 1999 
RUNNING TIME: 93 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

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

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 6.5 (out of 10) based on 4 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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