Blue Streak 1999

Critics score:
36 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Roger Ebert, At the Movies: Assembled with style. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Still, the movie is pretty bad. It's Rush Hour meets 48 Hours meets Bad Boys except this time around there's only one bad boy and the script and direction are subpar. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Most of the film is just Mr. Lawrence goofing around. Read more

Barbara Shulgasser, Chicago Tribune: Unimaginative. Read more

Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times: Read more

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more

Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle: Blue Streak falls victim to bad cliches. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Lawrence seems trapped in his jug-eared, slightly clownish nervousness, like a sidekick suddenly shoved into the spotlight. Read more

Globe and Mail: Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Lawrence has become involved in a film that makes us acutely embarrassed for him. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Apart from Lawrence's goofing, Blue Streak isn't much of a movie and its formula of stunts, anti-authority humor and a chase-and-crash finale is predictable enough to be depressing. Read more

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Robert Koehler, Variety: In the wake of a summer of capers and cons, Blue Streak arrives as a dull afterthought and a sorry vehicle for the comic expression of Martin Lawrence. Read more

Jessica Winter, Village Voice: The contortional physical shtick familiar from Lawrence's sitcom, laden with a dollop of Three Stooges violence, should keep the boys happy. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: A pooped, poorly executed buddy-cop comedy with more cliches than expletives. Read more