Blue Streak
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Movie Reviews of Blue Streak
Movie Review: Great action, bad comedy
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie really surprised me. I expected another unintellectual juvenile comedy. It wasn't like that at all. In fact, the worst part about this movie were the absurd attempts at comedy. This is an action film. And Lawrence appears to be an excellent action film actor. The little bits of comedy thrown in were just horrible and broke the cohesiveness of the rest of the movie. I highly recommend to action fans. Anybody else will hate it.Miles Logan (Lawrence) is a professional jewel thief who's caught in a major heist. In the escape attempt, he hides the prize diamond in a ventilation shaft in what he thinks is an abandoned building. He's arrested shortly thereafter and spends two years in prison. When he returns for his loot, he discovers the abandoned building is actually an LAPD station, and the ventilation shaft he's trying to reach is on a secured floor. So he steals a security pass and poses as a cop to try to get to the shaft. From then on, it's one adventure after another as the police think he's a real detective.
Not really many bad things to say about this except that most of the comedy was not only useless, it hurt the movie. Exclude the comedy and you have an excellent action flick. I still give it ****.
Movie Review: Martin Lawrence's entertainment!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love many movies starring Martin Lawrence. In my humble opinion, this is actually better than Big Momma's House. He is a wannabe cop, and the officers get him to act like one, then he crosses the border of Mexico at the end and they try to but they were at the other side. I don't like giving away stuff, but I think this is also the most original of what he's done. Then there's these other guys there too who I forgot what they did but they were kinda ghetto....This is worth the money at any price. It's funny, it's entertainment, it's impressive.Movie Review: James Berardinelli ...i loved it as you can see
Summary: 5 Stars
Blue Streak appears to be Martin Lawrence's attempt at a Beverly Hills Cop - and it's not a particularly effective one. Even though I'm not a booster of the 1984 Eddie Murphy vehicle, it nevertheless possessed one critical asset that is entirely absent from Blue Streak: energy. This movie is stillborn. In general, action/comedies are dubious enterprises, and this one makes it apparent why. When the action isn't exciting and the comedy isn't funny, the result is almost painful. Lawrence has become involved in a film that makes us acutely embarrassed for him. Lawrence's past movies have been hit-or-miss affairs. With the exception of A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, the actor/comedian has not gone solo, and this has been to his advantage. He's at his best when he has someone of equal stature and screen presence to play off of. In Bad Boys, it was Will Smith. In Nothing to Lose, it was Tim Robbins. And in Life, it was Eddie Murphy. Now, in Blue Streak, it's... Luke Wilson? I suppose the idea is that Wilson is intended to be the straight man, but Lawrence's antics are rarely amusing enough to warrant someone in that role, and the script lacks the deftness to handle anything more sophisticated than Lawrence dressing up in a disguise and acting like an idiot.
The story postulates the unlikely (but nevertheless potentially amusing) scenario that lifelong thief Miles Logan (Lawrence) is masquerading as a cop to retrieve a huge diamond he hid in one of the police station's air ducts two years ago. Of course, Miles only intends for the charade to last about an hour - just long enough for him to get into the secure part of the building, find an entrance to the ventilation system, retrieve his "property," and get out - but a series of coincidences conspire against him. Almost before he realizes what's going on, he has been saddled with a strait-laced partner named Carlson (Wilson), has made his first bust, and is being promoted to lead detective in the burglary division. What's more, Miles discovers that police work isn't all that bad. Unfortunately, two characters from his past surface to put his plans in danger, and one, the oily Deacon (Peter Greene), is out for blood.
The film relies heavily on Martin Lawrence for its success, but the actor is unable to deliver convincingly. Given the right material, Lawrence can be very funny (even in Nothing to Lose, a mostly-forgettable film, he had some hilarious moments), but there's nothing in Blue Streak that unleashes his comic potential. He's left floundering in a story that wants to turn him into an action hero, which he isn't. Little help is provided by the supporting cast, either. Luke Wilson (Home Fries) is bland, Peter Greene (Pulp Fiction) plays his usual role as a psycho, and David Chappelle is consistently irritating.
Director Les Mayfield (Flubber) mistakenly believes that if he throws enough pyrotechnics and gunfights onto the screen, the audience will forget about things like plot and character development. Since this is a comedy, we don't expect much of either here, but, for Blue Streak to work on any level, there has to be something more substantial than the pointless, paper-thin offerings of this screenplay. The film gets bogged down in the routine, tension-free chases and shoot-outs that typically sink these kinds of productions. Towards the beginning, it briefly seems as if Blue Streak intends to do something with the premise of the crook who unwittingly becomes revered as a top cop, but that aspect is quickly relegated to background noise. Unlike Bill Murray's The Man Who Knew Too Little, Blue Streak doesn't have the gumption to stretch things to ludicrous levels. With so little to hold an audience's attention, Blue Streak is a 95-minute waste of time that will have all but the most undiscriminating viewers seeing red.
Movie Review: its a Martin's Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
this was an outstanding movie.. my husband watches this movie over and over and over again and laugh every time.. what more can I say this is really good comedy.. Martin and his many roles and his pizza guy, cop, theif.. truly outstanding cant wait till his next movie come out...Movie Review: What did you expect from Martin Lawrenece
Summary: 3 Stars
Overall the story is predictable, silly and is exactly what I expected it to be. If Martin ever gets upset because he has been typecast it is his own fault. But I still liked the movie for what it was. As a comedy of this nature, it was on the up and up, just not my genre I guess.