ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

slightlymad22 Showtime (2002)In 2002, Murphy tried to move away from the kid friendly movies to disastrous box office effect. He started off the year by teaming with Robert De Niro (who was reinventing himself as a comic actor) in this Buddy Cop Picture.Plot In A Paragraph: Two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based television cop show, while tracking down the manufacturer and distributor of an illegally made semi-automatic firearm.It starts off well (especially the first 30 minuted or so) and I was enjoying myself. Sadly, it ends up becoming the type of movies it is making fun of. So it's early promise is not fully lived up to, but I still liked it.There is decent chemistry between the two leads. Every good scene in this movie features De Niro and Murphy. Usually without specially effects or action. William Shatner shows up to give Murphy and De Niro acting tips which is a lot of fun. All in all, it's an enjoyable action comedy for me. Showtime ended 2002 as the 70th highest grossing movie of the year, with a domestic haul of $38 million dollars. Against an $85 million budget.

RoboRabbit89 I'll just get right to it, I really liked this film it was fun. Eddie and Robert have great chemistry and work well together, Rene Russo was fun in this and the action was cool.I own this on VHS but I first seen this as a rental form the library back in 2009.Overall, a good buddy cop film, it's sad that this didn't do very well, I think this is the best Eddie movie before his movie slump.I give it a 5/10. It's fun to watch and if your an Eddie fan I think you'll like it too.

Chrysanthepop 'Showtime' didn't work for me much during the first viewing but I got a chance to watch it for the second time and enjoyed it more. The film toys with the interesting idea of a cop reality show, comparing how police life really is to how it's portrayed on screen but the over the top action sequences which are also very long, goes against this very concept. 'Showtime' falls in its own trap but it did have potential to be a better film given the concept. It is the comedic track between Murphy and De Niro that stands out. The two actors, along with Rene Russo, somewhat make up for the deficiency of this movie and during the second viewing I was able to pay more attention to this rather than the storyline which is weak. I would like to see the two work together again, with a better script.

bkoganbing Watching Showtime I got the impression that the producers got the idea to put Robert DeNiro and Eddie Murphy just for the sake of having a film that co-starred the two of them. Other than that I can't think of a reason to justify the film's existence. Not that it isn't amusing in spots, it certainly is, but the concept is so completely ludicrous that the laughs are somewhat muted.The thing that really got me was Eddie Murphy's character. I can't seem to wrap my mind around the concept of someone being a police officer as strictly a day job. When I was working person at New York State Crime Victims Board I had to deal with all kinds of cops and they ran the gamut between the really dedicated and some real slugs, but I can't think of one who thought that this was just something I do until I get my career going in an area far afield. I mean, can you really see Eddie Murphy or anyone else going through the rigors of the real Police Academy, not the screen version, just to get a day job?Anyway DeNiro is your basic hard working detective who's on the trail of a major gun dealer. He's undercover and Murphy is part of his backup. So what does the showboating Murphy do, he calls a reality based TV series like COPS to film the action. So DeNiro's bust gets blown sky high, but the producer of the show gets some good footage of Murphy and DeNiro and decides on a new reality based television series. So these unwilling partners get joined and try to continue working DeNiro's case with all the TV cameras around.Eddie Murphy's a funny guy, I loved him in Beverly Hills Cop and in the Doctor Doolittle movies, but he's done better things than Showtime and Robert DeNiro certainly has. I guess Murphy wanted a chance to work with DeNiro and DeNiro must have gotten one hefty paycheck to do this film.