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Summary: What the Problem Is???
Review: Anyone who gives this movie less than 4 stars doesn't know a great movie when they see it. First of, MARTIN LAWRENCE IS THE MAN!!! The movie is great, and Martin Lawrence is hilarious. I didn't stop laughing at all both times I saw it, and its at least as funny as blue streak. When I read these other reviews, i was about to go all off in here...but you got your boys. Any true Martin Lawrence fan cannot miss this movie, and neither can anyone who wants to see 2003's best comedy.
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Summary: I enjoyed it
Review: This movie is one of my favorite movies from Dennis Dugan. Although i don't think Martin Lawrence isn't that funny, I thought he was funny in this movie. I really don't know what the problem is with this movie. I think the people who said this movie was terrible are low jealous pricks who wish they had the talent to act like Steve Zahn and to have the comedy Martin Lawrence had in this movie.
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Summary: National Security
Review: This is undoubtedly one of the worst films that I have ever seen. My son and I went to see the film, and in comparing notes afterward, we had a great laugh over the fact that ten minutes into the film we were both waiting for the other to suggest leaving this mindless piece of trivia. This film has a plot that defies belief, character development that is weak and shallow, and lacks any entertainment value. I gave this film one star, because there was no zero rating provided. This is a film that a potential viewer should place in the must not see category.
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Summary: An offensive movie
Review: This movie is one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time. It seems like an attempt to make fun of race relations, but the way the whole movie played out it was actually very offensive. If a movie was made, reverse the role of the two races, and Jesse Jackson would have sued. I tried to ignore the first few race jokes, but when that's all that the movie had to offer, I realized that it was just getting to me, so I left the movie 20 minutes before it finished (I wanted to leave earlier...). The movie is about a cop whose partner died then a few days later sees Martin lawrence sticking his hand in through a car window and thinks he is stealing the car, Martin lawrence thinks that the cop stopped him because he was black. A bee comes, Martin Lawrence says he was allergic, so the cop tries to swat it with one of those beating sticks the police carries around. this is caught on film, making it look like he was trying to hit lawrence. The cop guy gets in the slammer for 6 months. Then he gets out of prison...thats where the plot just got REALLY stupid involving people smuggling special metallic junk. The movie was just [junk].
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Summary: A Bad Film watch out.
Review: for anyone that has a brain in their head don't go & see this film it is dumbfounding fodder for your mind, it makes you dumber every second you are subjected to it . although it has it's moments i would give it the rasberry award for worst film of 2003 . martin is soo annoying i want to kick [him] out of there & get an actor that could really act the only thing hold this sorry film together was steve zahn who is funny not acting like it & does great job plus actors that played the bad guys .save your money & rent blue streak it's funnier trust me.
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Summary: What the problem is?
Review: Well, the problem is that Martin Lawrence is worthy of a much better script. One might also expect something better from the Director of such hits as Big Daddy & Happy Gilmore, even Problem Child! This is actor/director Dennis Dugan's first film since 2001's Saving Silverman (also featuring Zahn), which wasn't very good but did have some funny moments. National Security has its moments too, but there are too few. Still, I don't blame the Director, the fault is in the writing. When I found out that the guys that wrote "I Spy" & "Serving Sara" wrote this, it started making sense. Martin Lawrence (also exec producer, whatever that means) seems to be doing a lot of cop comedies - Bad Boys, Big Momma's House (he's FBI in that), and Blue Streak, not to mention Bad Boys 2 and Blue Streak 2 coming soon! Seriously. Granted each of those roles has a twist, but here he is once again in a similar role playing a security guard/cop wanna be in National Security. I'm a big Martin Lawrence fan, but National Security just wasn't very good in comparison to those other films. The major weak spot is the running racial jokes ("DWB = driving while black", "Even the light is white!", "I'm against interracial relationships, when the man is white.", blah blah blah). Actually by the time that last line came, the theatre audience I was with on opening night was dead silent. The fact that Martin's character acts like he doesn't like white people is hammered in to the viewers head and anything that might be funny about this is drained out about half way into the film. There are also stereotypes of black people, a lot of them played out through Lawrence's character and others like the woman who Zahn's character orders to get out of her car and then the she slaps him like 3 times and goes crazy. How many times have you seen this in a movie? Lawrence's other films are strong because they can appeal to anyone and racial humor is all but non-existent. This film in no way measures up to his other films in laughs. There are funny parts, actually very funny parts, but they're almost eclipsed by the continuous "joke" that must remind us every 5-10 minutes that "by the way, Martin's character hates whitey! ha, ha, ha!" Oh yeah, I liked how they had to "justify" the white cop and show he wasn't a racist by giving him a black girlfriend (Did they actually ever kiss each other? and if she loved him, wouldn't she know he didn't lie about beating Martin's character? Guess not.) Also the only cop of high rank who wasn't crooked was the black cop, nice touch. This movie doesn't just casuaully use racism as a source of humor...it's obsessed with racism. Its like the writers just ran out of ideas and said what could we make Martin's character like...I know, he can dislike white people and mention it every 5 minutes! This is the last kind of movie this country needs right now. If its point was to show how stupid racism is, that would be different, but instead it just treads the same territory and uses the same old tired racial "jokes" & stereotypes that have been done to death. Wow, I thought "Black Knight" & "What's the worst that could happen?" were disappointing! By the way, the new catch phrase "what the problem is?" can only be funny the first few times. Around number 12 it kind of got old. "Its like that?" "Oh its like that." I'm gonna go watch Blue Streak now!
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Summary: Better than expected...
Review: I saw the previews for this one, and I thought that, at the worst, it would a buddy, cop, action, comedy movie that would be a good way to burn an hour and a half. Color me surprised, then, when it turned out not only to to be a buddy, cop, action, comedy movie, but an engaging buddy, cop, action comedy movie with some weight to it. Taking its cue from Rodney King, the film shows honest cop Hank having his career ruined when he is videotaped helping a black cop-wannabe, Earl Montgomery, avoid a bee sting. Naturally, he looks like he is beating Montgomery, who does little to help him when questioned by authorities. Railroaded into prison, and then forced to take a job as a security guard, Hank works to solve a very personal case on his own time. Naturally, he is forced to team up with Montgomery, also a National Security company employee. Along the way, there are lots of stunts, shootouts, and action when the bad guys try to stop Hank from solving the case. The film had some good moments of drama as well, from the opening sequence, to Hank's admission of what he saw and how it affected him, and why he wants the bad guys to pay. I also liked the way it turns the "bad cop" and "racist cop" sterotypes on their head. I had to wonder if Hollywood has started to lean away from the PC, lock-step, hard left, traditional view of race relations (what with recent films like "Barbershop" and "National Security"), in favor of a more honest and realistic view of the issues. The film was nicely compact, tightly designed, directed, and scripted. And did I mention it was funny? The disasters that face Hank, and then both Hank and his ersatz partner Montgomery, are right on the money when it comes to laughs. Martin Lawrence reigned in his more annoying qualities as Montgomery, while Steven Zahn was a pleasant surprise as the put-upon police officer Hank. I wouldn't say that "National Security" was groundbreaking cinema or anything, but I really had a good time watching it, and I think you will too.
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Summary: Not As Bad As The Newpaper Review Claims...
Review: ... Anyway, if i were to grade this as a critic, I would've given it a 2. It's not Martin Lawrence's best work, but it has it's funny parts and the action's fair. The thing that really annoyed me was the amount of racist jokes. Sure, Martin Lawrence doesn't mean to insult everyone, but it seems like everyone's aganist the white cop, and he never really gets back at Lawence. Is this how black people felt about "Undercover Brother"? Anyway, all of that aside, it is a good movie in some ways. It has your usual Martin Lawrence jokes, which is disappointing to some people, but to a lot more, it's just fine. Martin plays the same thing as he does in just about every single other movie he's in...a cop. Well, not at first, he isn't. At first, he plays a rejected LAPD trainee who just got booted. Cracky and upset, he makes his way back to his car, when he realizes he left his keys inside. He reaches his hand in the half open window, making it appear he's trying to [take] the car, so a cop stops to talk to him. That's when the "because I'm black" lines start. I won't reveal what happens between the two, because that's a main part in the movie, but anyway, the cop is cranky as well because his partner was recently killed. The movie's a normal length, about an hour and a half, but in some parts you feel like you've just got done seeing The Two Towers. Corny and unbelievable, you can't go to see this movie with hopes of "Dr. No", not that anyone does, but this Lawrence movie does have an unusaully high action level. Go see this sometime. Bring a friend. Ignore the paper and the critics.
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Summary: Okay
Review: I wasn't expecting much from the film, "National Security," but what I got wasn't that great either. This film revolves around a man (Martin Lawrence) who is trying to be a cop. He gets kicked out of the police academy and must resort to being a security guard. One day he comes face to face with a police officer (Steve Zahn) who accidently thinks Lawrence's character is breaking into a car. What happens next looks like a Rodney King beating, but really isn't. Zahn's character is sent to jail and when he gets out can only find a job as a security guard. Zahn's partner was also killed, so once he's out of jail, he's on a quest to find his partner's killer. Lawrence and Zahn then team up, under crazy circumstances, to find the killers and bring them to justice. There are a few funny moments in the movie, but they are far and few between. Martin Lawrence's previous films, such as "Bad Boys" and "Nothing to Lose" were much better and funnier. I would have to agree with others when they say there were too many racial jokes throughout the film. Just about every sentence that came out of Martin's mouth had some sort of racial slur in it. After awhile it became very annoying. Those who really enjoy Martin Lawrence's films may enjoy this movie, but I would suggest just leaving this one on the shelf and waiting for "Bad Boys 2" to come out this summer.
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Summary: Good film,but flawed...
Review: National Security was a good film,but had some flaws.The stunts and action secquences were satisfying,but if there had been more action in the film,the action would have been excellent.Another flaw is that Steve Zahn's acting was horrible as Hank Rafferty.Zahn wasn't convincable one bit.Terrible casting choice.Also,Martin Lawrence took up most of the movie with racist humor and dialogue and being afraid of bees.Overall,you should see this movie.Rating:9/10
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