30
While the idea may be good, its execution is awful.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
50
The story is stale, action uninspired, pacing lackadaisical. The whole production looks a little cut-rate, too.
75
San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann
Apart from Lawrence's goofing, Blue Streak isn't much of a movie.
75
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
The plot is formula all the way, but Lawrence has found a way to incorporate the physical techniques of the great silent stars with his standup comic's arsenal, and it's a pleasure to watch him at work.
60
Village Voice by Jessica Winter
The contortional physical shtick familiar from Lawrence's sitcom, laden with a dollop of Three Stooges violence, should keep the boys happy.
75
New York Post by Jonathan Foreman
It isn't particularly subtle or original. But it's a good-natured late-summer romp fueled by Lawrence's manic shtick.
40
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
The usual valorizing of guns and vigilante justice and tedious action sequences to begin and end the picture.
50
The New York Times by Lawrence Van Gelder
The buoyancy is only intermittent.
20
(Lawrence)'s not just unfunny, he's coarsely anti-funny. The film just lurches from one dull skit to the next without bite or much of a point.
40
Not a bad concept, and Martin Lawrence is appealing. Unfortunately, the writers have no gift for comic writing.