Movies
National Security
Bickersome mixed-race buddy action-comedy, whose action is little distinguishable from the action in many noncomedies. Steve Zahn, with bristly hair and mustache of equal length, and the general demeanor of a man trying to bench-press 300 lbs., manages to stay in character, or near it, while Martin Lawrence stays nearer the mike on a concert stage. Cars and vans crash through glass doors, fences, barrels of water, port-a-potties -- six, seven, eight times, always in slow-motion. Bullets ping, chip, splash, shatter, splinter -- six, seven, eight hundred times. Pay for this line of work must be significantly higher than for the assembly of Big Macs, but job satisfaction must not. Directed by Dennis Dugan. 2003.
— Duncan Shepherd
Reader Rating:
- MPAA Rating: PG-13
