Movie Reviews for Blue Streak

Blue Streak

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Movie Reviews of Blue Streak

Movie Review: The best comedy in a long time
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is hilarious! If everyone would stop comparing it to "Beverly Hills Cop", they would agree with me. Dont get me wrong, Beverly Hills Cop was a great movie- just different from Blue Streak. If you like "Bad Boys" or "Big Mommas House", you will surely like this.

Movie Review: ...comedy's best feature is its short running time
Summary: 1 Stars

I am not a fan of director Les Mayfield, who has brought us such ... fare as Flubber and Encino Man. I am always willing to change my opinion of someone's abilities, especially if it's a negative opinion. In this case, my view of Mr. Mayfield remains the same. The best thing to me about Blue Streak is that it is a very short movie. I decided to start this review off with these comments because people differ so much over what they find funny. So, Flubber fans can stop now reading now.

The movie starts with a spectacular heist. Miles Logan [Martin Lawrence] and his cronies are lowering themselves into a skyscraper from its roof. Object: a $17,000,000 diamond. As ambitious as this opening is, it is remarkably similar to high-tech robberies in recent movies like Entrapment and The Thomas Crown Affair. The reason for this is obvious to me. People who make movies do not generally hang out with these types of thieves. Research into this line of work is by nature sketchy. Therefore, movie makers get their ideas on how such a feat can be brought off from the same source we do - the movies.

The robbery is a botched one, but Miles gets as far as nabbing the diamond before he is caught. Just as the cops rush in, he manages to hide it in some ductwork of a high-rise under construction. After spending two years in prison, he returns to retrieve his prize. There is a small problem. The building turns out to be the new headquarters of the LAPD. It's as well guarded as Fort Knox. Undaunted, Logan tries to get in by posing as a pizza delivery guy. When this fails, he returns armed with fake IDs and paperwork. He claims to be a detective who has been reassigned to the precinct. This works too well. The police accept him as one of their own, and our criminal is suddenly a cop.

Based on reading this clever plot, you might assume that this movie should be hilarious. Indeed, any of the following stars might have made it so - Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Chris Rock. While Martin Lawrence is tolerable in his sitcom Martin, he seems unable to master the longer time span that movies require. His wise cracks and bodily contortions wear off too quickly. In the scenes where he is teamed up with detective Carlson [Luke Wilson], things work.It is possible that Martin's talents work best when he has a partner to bounce off of. It is also possibile that Les Mayfield's heavy-handed direction was too much for him. Time and again, Mayfield takes scenes which could have been brilliant and makes them flat. There is also a problem with Lawrence's character. When a person incessantly makes smart remarks, it's hard to relate to them unless there is some side to them that is lovable. There is nothing to love about the totally self-centered Logan, and this makes us start to not care if he gets the diamond back or not.

Movie Review: We've Seen This Before
Summary: 1 Stars

A familiar plot: a likeable crook, clueless cops, incompetant henchmen, and a fortune to be gained. How many times can anybody see the same thing again? This film brings nothing fresh to this situation. Lawrence tries too hard to make the weak script funny by doing what he does best, playing loud and obnoxious, and mugging. There are very few genuine laughs, and unfortunately, more than a few scenes that depict tired racial stereotypes. For Martin Lawrence fans only.