CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Python Hyena National Security (2003): Dir: Dennis Dugan / Cast: Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Eric Roberts, Colm Feore, Robinne Lee: Idiotic comedy that represents unity of race but plays like the umpteenth buddy action film. It stars Steve Zahn as a cop who witnesses the murder of his partner. Martin Lawrence plays a failed trainee who is accidentally locks his keys in his car. When Zahn asks questions he turns it into a racial argument that concludes with Zahn being caught on camera in what appears to be a beating when he is really retaliating at a bee, which Lawrence is allergic too. Zahn spends time in prison thanks to Lawrence's racial arguments. Predictable climax resulting in another failure by Dennis Dugan who has directed such junk as Problem Child and Happy Gilmore. Zahn does what he can with the lifeless material but Lawrence goes into overkill with his racial argument. Both are capable of being funny but this is not intelligent enough material to demonstrate it. Eric Roberts plays the standard villain as if that is any surprise. Colm Feore is also feature, but again here is a talent that is far above this junk. Robinne Lee plays Zahn's ex-girlfriend who broke up with him after he was arrested and now Lawrence must own up to the truth. This is another lame buddy flick in their ever declining quality. This one should be shot to pieces by the millions of bullets fired in this dumb flick. Score: 2 / 10

CaptainCeltic First of, this movie was alright and even hilarious at times...for the first 10 minutes. After that, this movie sunk faster than the Titanic.I'm not sure what the creators of this movie were smoking that made them think it was an action or crime movie, and the only crime was that this movie cost me $0 but cost me 20 minutes of my life. Yes, I stopped watching it. That is the proof of a good movie. I was not paying a dime to see it, and I stopped watching it. I would rather watch a squirrel scratch its back than have finished this movie. The only funny part of this movie was watching Earl Montgomery (Martin Lawrence) was doing the police training exercise and when Earl called officer Hank Rafferty (Steve Zahn) a Nazi, and I'm white. Besides that, nothing much for me. To each their own I guess, and this gets thrown into the same dumpster as Waynes World.

luis figueira The movie's plot line is pretty funny and the action and comedy are good - not laugh out loud good but more like humorous :) I do think that you can watch it more than once. Steve Zahn and martin Lawrence do portray a good but unstable team in the film but thats all part of the humour. Personally I love most action comedies due to the fact that they are uplifting... Honestly though, this is a great comedy and the acting does seem cheap but in a way it does fit in with the whole comedy genre so there are'nt any major problems. Anyway, thanks for reading my review and if you watch the movie.. enjoy it and grab a bowl of popcorn!

Sandcooler I know Martin Lawrence isn't the best actor in the world, but does he really have to play the exact same character in every movie? I mean, I liked him in "Nothing To Lose". Then I moved on. In this one he tries out the buddy cop genre once again, but the chemistry with Steve Zahn just isn't there, which makes everything seem so forced. Especially the emotional scenes are as useless as can be. Watching Lawrence act like he cares about the other guy's paper-thin back story is painful to watch. Then again, the actors probably aren't the biggest problem, given that not even Mel Gibson and Danny Glover could make this screenplay work. A lazy stock crime plot spiced up with no laughs whatsoever isn't exactly my favourite way of spending an evening. At barely an hour and a half I can say that this movie is mercifully short , but that's pretty much all I've got.