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National Security (Special Edition)

National Security (Special Edition)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hilarious
Review: The movie doesn't start off as Martin Lawarnce and Steve Zahn as partners. Hank Steve's character is a cop and Martin's characters gets his keys stuck in his car and Steve thinks Earl Martins character is stealing his car. Hank then trys to consult Earl but he won't bit. A bumble bee then stumbles in and Earl is alergic to bumble bee's and Hank trys to get it out and a local citezin records this incident. Then Earl charges Hank with assualt because he's black. You have got to watch this film. It is fu&^$&& funny!!!!WATCH IT!!!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Goofy and entertaining - but nothing special
Review: In this goofy cop drama, Martin Lawrence plays Earl, a white-bashing, easily terrorized black man who sends Los Angeles cop Hank (Steve Zahn) to jail because of his hysterical and inaccurate testimony. When, six months later, the two find themselves unwittingly together as security guards protecting a warehouse during a heist, they team up to track down the bad guys. Lawrence is funny at first with his poor-oppressed-black-guy routine, but it gets tired - and even offensive - fast, mostly because Earl is such a buffoon; he seems too clownishly stupid to be much more than a stereotype. Hank is the straight man, and you can't help feeling sorry for him as he endures Earl's completely misguided riffs. Yeah, this film has some laughs, especially during the slapstick scenes, but they are either mild or mindless, fine as long as you don't expect uproarious comedy.

This film is definitely a rental, not a purchase. It is entertaining, humorous, but nothing you'll remember in a few days.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Another OTT Martin Lawrence production
Review:
Laugh out loud funny in places, confronts racist stereotyping head-on and very slyly, but overall suffers from being another Martin Lawrence vehicle at the expense of story, coherence, depth and meaning. Strictly one for multiplex enthusiasts. 4 stars for them, 2 for everyone else.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: National Security
Review: Martin what were you thinking?? Didnt you learn anything from Black Knight?? I didn't laugh once watching this movie. A waste of Martin's great talent

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Pretty good.
Review: This is about a guy( Martin Lawrence), who accuses a cop( Steve Zahn) of beating him, so he can get on the police force, whn really he was just beating a bee that Martin Lawrences charactar was afraid of. So he goes to prison for 6 months, than they reunite, and have to stick together to take down some criminals. Good Film!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: RACIST
Review: I love Martin Lawrence movies such as "Blue Streak" and "Nothing To Lose" but this one was poor. The one thing that was most annoying was the amount of racist jokes in it - it made Martin look like an arrogant racist schmuk! Almost everything he said in the movie had some sort of racist involvement and after a while it gets annoying and frustrating. Probably the reason why the movie was a box office dud!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Zahn was alright, Martin is Martin
Review: If you want to waste your money, watch this movie. By far the worst movie I've seen in a while. But seriously, I think he's been in ENOUGH COP MOVIES, and Hollywood should start looking for fresh faces and new material, because I could've sworn I've seen an identical plot on another movie. Whoever came up with this movie, or helped put it on the big screen, needs to be subsequently put in jail, and forced to watch what their toil and labor has produced...crap.
As for Martin Lawrence, please tell me I'm not the only one who notices that he acts the same in every movie.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Funny and Entertaining
Review: While we may have been here before in terms of the action and story line (the reason for the four stars), I saw this movie in theaters and howled with laughter almost throughout the entire film. Including when I saw it again on DVD. Martin Lawrence plays LAPD reject and troublemaker Earl who gets L.A. cop Hank (played by Steve Zahn) kicked off the force for police brutality. These two guys end up working as security guards for the same company (named National Security). Then the two team up to halt a smuggling ring as well as try to uncover corrupt LA officials if they can stay one step ahead of the real police and not kill each other at the same time. I think the 'because I'm black'/victim mentality adds to the humor of Lawrence's character and Zahn is well cast as Lawrence's sidekick. Or is Lawrence Zahn's sidekick?
Anyway, I thought the added features with the alternate and deleted scenes were interesting. I also felt that the alternate ending (which is included in this special edition) should have made the final cut. Overall I enjoyed this movie. Its good slapstick fun packed with action.


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