Earl Montgomery (Martin Lawrence) lies and tells police that he was beaten by a good cop named Hank Rafferty (Steve Zahn) after getting kicked out of the Police Academy. Sending Hank to jail for a hate crime, Earl continues to live his life without any problems, working as a security guard at a warehouse until he realizes Hank has been given the same job after getting out of prison and that they are being the victims of a smuggling operation. The two team up and adventure to stop the smugglers.
This is a mildly humorous action-comedy with some good action sequences but fails to find itself entertaining throughout. I lost my patience with the film about an hour in and was not anticipating the finale at all. Martin Lawrence's performance is just annoying and UN-original. He plays the same character in every film!! Steve Zahn puts up the only decent performance and keeps this film from failing miserably. The scene in which he is thrown into jail for his "hate crime" was absolutely hysterical but the rest of the film just fails to keep up with the entertaining beginning. Overall, this movie is just your everyday Martin Lawrence crap and is no different from any other low-budget comedy.
I do not recommend this film.
This is a mildly humorous action-comedy with some good action sequences but fails to find itself entertaining throughout. I lost my patience with the film about an hour in and was not anticipating the finale at all. Martin Lawrence's performance is just annoying and UN-original. He plays the same character in every film!! Steve Zahn puts up the only decent performance and keeps this film from failing miserably. The scene in which he is thrown into jail for his "hate crime" was absolutely hysterical but the rest of the film just fails to keep up with the entertaining beginning. Overall, this movie is just your everyday Martin Lawrence crap and is no different from any other low-budget comedy.
I do not recommend this film.