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Summary: GET A GRIP PEOPLE!!!
Review: As a white guy, I was not the least bit offended by this movie. I think most people out there simply didn't get it. Martin Lawrence was PURPOSELY playing a character who was over the top in his suspicion of white people, especially cops.I don't understand why so many people are put off. Lawrence was hardly subtle in playing a black Rodney-Kingesque character who then has to team up with the white cop who allegedly abused him. And Lawrence's character is put in his place later in the film when he finds that the Steve Zahn character has a black girlfriend. I admit that this was a little heavy-handed, but that's how this movie goes. That said..it was not a great movie. it was very predictable in plot. I knew right away who the bad guys would turn out to be, and pretty much how the story would unfold. There were some funny moments, but this was pretty standard "odd-couple" action comedy ala Lethal Weapon and Rush Hour, but not nearly as good as those movies.
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Summary: Martin Lawrences best movie since Blue Streak
Review: National Security is the perfect movie to see this year. I saw it the day it came out and I want to see it again. It stars one of the best comedians today (Martin Lawrence) and another funny misfit (Steve Zahn from SAVING SILVERMAN). The movie is funny yet has good action. Here is the plot.
Steve Zhan plays Hank. An LA policeman who is bent on revenge to finding the guy who killed his partner in gun battle. Lawrence is Earl. A guy who just got kicked out of the force after turning a practice session into a disaster. Plus Earl always thinks that people have a problem with him because he is black- not because of his attitude. One day while Earl is trying to have a regular day, he realizes he left his keys in his car and tried to stick his hand in and get it. Hank catches him and interrogates what is going on. While that is happening, a bee comes by and Earl is allergic to bees and so Hank tries to get the bee away but the way they were positioned, it looked like Hank was beating on Earl and a guy who near by got the whole thing on camera. Because of that, a huge commotion started thru out the state about a white cop beating a black civilian. Hank is fired from the police and sent to jail for 6 months and Earl just kicks back and lets the whole thing happen even though he knows it was a bee.
Hank serves his six months and after getting out he tries to do something similar toward police work- a job as a security guard. While on the job, Hanks gets called about a robbery and goes to check it out. It seems that the robbers were the guys he had an encounter with in the past and one of the guys was his partner's murderer. Hank goes into action right away and a fellow security guard who worked in the building comes to back up Hank and that person just happens to be Earl!! The two would've had a long argument but realized it wasn't the time and chased the bad guys but they were stopped by the police. Police that Hank kidnapped Earl for revenge but Earl decided not to have anything bad happen to Hank this time although it would have felt real good. Hank goes on to try find these guys who did the robbery because its personal and Earl thinks it is personal too because one them called him a monkey- and he thinks he was called that because he is black. Both Hank and Earl go on the case even though they are not policemen and along the way they go through many arguments that sometimes lead toward zany consequences like fighting over which to go on the street- right or left and they end up jumping the highway into a pile of portable toilets. Hank and Earl must try to put the past aside so they can help each other to try and find these bad guys.
National Security loaded with intense action, thrilling chase scenes, gun battles, fist fights, and many parts that will make you laugh hard. It's definitely as good as blue Steak and you should see it while it is still in theaters.
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Summary: If you're not sophisticated enough for knock-knock jokes...
Review: This is the ideal movie for those with frontal lobotomies. If you think that a person being beaten, sent to jail and losing his wife--solely on account of his race--is really funny, you'll love this film. This "comedy" has all the fun of watching one's mother die. Other than studio shills and imbeciles, who could like this atrocity? If there were no explosions, car chases and people being killed and maimed by Uzi-type firearms, in a blood splattered contagion of hilarious death and dismemberment, would even the drooling cretins who bring their young children to this kind of racist, violent, filthy "entertainment?" pay money to see it? Is "professional" wrestling too tame for them? I saw it on TV--Cinemax, so it was sorta free; but I still felt cheated. I can't imagine the "director" of this garbage laying down a commentary tract...has he no shame? taste? conscience? The more people I know, the more I like my dog.
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Summary: This was a good movie despite what the other people say
Review: I don't know whats wrong with you people talking about oh hes racist its hurting me, if you dont like it that ... for you its part of the movie alright? And this one guy says there "were too many racial jokes like, DWB, driving while black, and even the light is white." First of all, DWB is a real thing, the person who wrote the script didnt just make it up. Being a black person I would know that there is such thing as DWB. I knew this when I was about seven years old, and its amazing to me that there are people that have never heard of this. Then theres even the light is white, come on its a joke, lets all go sit in a corner and cry about it. Anyway, after correctig these peoples reviews a little bit, I have to say that National Security was a good funny movie, as long as you arent stuck on the only two racist jokes in the whole movie. Its about Martin Lawrence (Earl) trying out to get into a police academy. They wont let him in because hes just really crazy and they think that he'll get someone hurt. Then comes the part where he locked his keys in his car and hes sticking his arm in the window and the cop comes along and he starts getting mad at the cop and theres a bee that flies behind the police officers head and so Earl tells him hes allergic to bees, and so the officer tries to swat away the bee with his stick and it looks like he is beating Earl so then a guy in the park gets it on tape and takes it to the police station and the guy gets locked up for 6 months because Earl doesnt even try to keep the man from going to jail. when the guy gets out he loses everything. His wife, his badge, his house, everything. The fired police officer has to go through the security and police academy again, but fails at winning his badge back and has to work with Earl as a security guard. While Earl is supposed to be guarding a werehouse, the other security guard shows up because he hears people inside. Earl comes out with his
Glock 18c or "Earl Jr.," and attemps to shoot the robbers, they end up getting away and then the police catch the security guards speeding. The robbers are the people who killed the police officers partner in the beginning of the movie, and they have millions of dollars worth of some kind of metal in the shape of a beer keg. The rest of the movie is where they are trying to get the metal, and turn it in to the cops, and then in the end..... see the movie.
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Summary: FUNNY!!!!!!
Review: TWO RENT A COPS WHO HAVE A QUESTIONABLE PATH MUST TEAM TO STOP AN ILLEGAL SMUUGLING OPERATION INVLOVLING A RARE TYPE OF METAL. ITS FUNNY AND HAS GOOD ACTION
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Summary: Martin---Sending Us Back to Slavery in a Handbag
Review: I used to like Martin so I put up with his antics and his racist films. But enough is enough! One reviewer claimed we " blacks " need to get a grip? And that the film didn't offend them. Probably because that reviewer was white. Yeah if you're white you probably won't be able to see the sickness in this film black people can. The point is Martin is famous enough where he can stand up for himself and refuse these buffoon-type roles. His movies remind me of the old days when whites used to paint their faces black and portray us. Well I don't care about Martin and his reasons for taking these kinds of films. I no longer support him because it seems to me his parts are getting more and more ignorant and he continues to portray blacks in a light that we've been trying to run from for thousands of years. I wouldn't spend one dime of my money on this trash and unless you find racist jokes and a black guy acting like an ignorant moron funny, you won't spend yours either. Sometimes you can " ignore " a film like this but the problem is that Martin does these kinds of films all the time and it's ridiculous. Martin sold out the minute he began making these stupid films. I won't be watching another one of Martin's films---assuming he makes anymore.
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Summary: Bombs Away
Review: Imagine a movie that throws every racist black joke cliche you could ever think about into an 88 minute movie. Then imagine that it is recycled every few minutes. National Security is a comedy that is not only unfunny, but is also unoriginal, full with cliches, and downright pointless.
The movie centers around Earl Montgomery (Martin Lawrence), a security officer, and Hank Rafferty (Steve Zahn) an ex-police officer who turns security officer after what seems to be a phony Rodney King type beating. Now, this is where the movie starts to go wrong. It takes the typical black/white man stereotype and turns it into a cop movie that dares to enter where no one has gone before- make consistent black jokes from a black guy. Don't get me wrong, I'm not using black in a derogatory way, but merely to point out that these "African-American" or so called black jokes are unfunny and dull.
Later, the two somehow stumble upon a plot to take a precious metal-alloy that will make a crooked cop and some other thiefs rich. By coincidence, this group is also responsible for Hank's partners death. Because of this, Hank goes to revenge his partner.
This movie could have been replaced with stick figures and I would have been just as delighted.
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Summary: Typical Martin lawrence
Review: This movie is completely typical of Martin Lawrence's racial views, and is just like every other movie he's in. Completely racist against everyone who is not black. Besides that the movie was still completely predictable, low budget acting, and poor dialogue. It obviously must have been written by martin lawrence himself.
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Summary: Had some funny moments but....
Review: I did not hate this movie, but Martin's characters racial comments got on my last nerves, and I'm black!!!! I mean the cop was trying to hit a bee and it turned into police brutality case. There were some parts of the movie that made me chuckle, but I'm glad I did not see this one in theaters.
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Summary: Martin---Sending Us Back to Slavery in a Handbag
Review: I used to like Martin so I put up with his antics and his racist films. But enough is enough! One reviewer claimed we " blacks " need to get a grip? And that the film didn't offend them. Probably because that reviewer was white. Yeah if you're white you probably won't be able to see the sickness in this film black people can. The point is Martin is famous enough where he can stand up for himself and refuse these buffoon-type roles. His movies remind me of the old days when whites used to paint their faces black and portray us. Well I don't care about Martin and his reasons for taking these kinds of films. I no longer support him because it seems to me his parts are getting more and more ignorant and he continues to portray blacks in a light that we've been trying to run from for thousands of years. I wouldn't spend one dime of my money on this trash and unless you find racist jokes and a black guy acting like an ignorant moron funny, you won't spend yours either. Sometimes you can " ignore " a film like this but the problem is that Martin does these kinds of films all the time and it's ridiculous. Martin sold out the minute he began making these stupid films. I won't be watching another one of Martin's films---assuming he makes anymore.
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