Martin Lawrence stars in this action comedy directed by Dennis Dugan (HAPPY GILMORE). The film concerns an unlikely partnership that forms between two LAPD rejects. Hank (Steve Zahn) is a straightlaced officer who is fired and imprisoned after supposedly brutalizing an innocent black man. It turns out the 'victim', Earl .. Read more
| Starring | Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Eric Roberts, Timothy Busfield |
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| Director | Dennis Dougan |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Comedy |
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Martin Lawrence stars in this action comedy directed by Dennis Dugan (HAPPY GILMORE). The film concerns an unlikely partnership that forms between two LAPD rejects. Hank (Steve Zahn) is a straightlaced officer who is fired and imprisoned after supposedly brutalizing an innocent black man. It turns out the 'victim', Earl Montgomery (Lawrence), is actually just an angry citizen who, frustrated after being dismissed from the police academy due to his bad temper, seized the opportunity to take out his rage on the hapless Hank. But six months later, when Hank is released from prison, their paths cross once again when Nash (Eric Roberts), the man who killed Hank's partner, robs the warehouse where Earl is employed as a security guard. Angry that Nash refers to him using a racial slur, Earl attaches himself to Hank, who wants nothing to do with the trash-talker. But Earl won't back down, and the bickering pair begin to infiltrate a smuggling ring and the crooked police department that rejected them months before.
| Starring | Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Eric Roberts, Timothy Busfield, Bill Duke, Colm Feore |
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| Director | Dennis Dougan |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 25 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 29 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Comedy |
| Language | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | Arabic, Bulgarian, Croation, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 22 Sep 2003 Blu-ray: 03 Nov 2008 Production year: 2003 |
| Format | DVD |
You would think that after Blue Streak, Beverly Hills Cop, Lethal Weapon and countless others, the law enforcement section of the buddy movie genre had been exhausted. Then along comes this poorly executed vehicle for Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn. Lawrence plays a wannabe cop who's booted out of the academy and becomes a security guard; Zahn is an ex-policeman who was sent down for six months after being falsely accused, by Lawrence, of a racist assault and is also forced to find work as a guard. Naturally they are thrown together and end up on the trail of the ruthless crooks who were responsible for the death of Zahn's partner. This is dumb, tasteless and short on laughs, while the film's dated vibe is summed-up by Eric Roberts's ineffectual turn as the chief bad guy.
"NATIONAL SECURITY, a funny, raucous action comedy, effectively teams Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn in a film that's both laugh out loud funny and surprisingly subtle..."
This movie on the front of it looks good. However it starts off a bit too dramatic for a comedy and progresses the same way. The drama really got in the way of the comedy and ruined the whole film, due to the fact it's not really supposed to be a serious movie. There are only really a couple of funny moments and you can see them on the trailer. I wouldnt recommend this movie.
Good film bad ending - should have spent more time making sure that the end was good - thanks, the truth.