Miles
is a jewel thief who gets double-crossed by a ruthless partner with
heisting a large diamond in Los Angeles. Before getting nabbed by
the cops, Miles hides the diamond in a large airduct in a building he
is in. After a couple of years in prison, Miles is out to get the
diamond back and is shocked to realize the building is now home to a
rather high security police headquarters. Miles assumes the identity
of a police officer to gain access inside, and ironically gets
assigned as the lead burglary detective. Now he has to keep fooling
the cops, while the man who double-crossed him is now on his case to
get the diamond as well.
BLUE STREAK
is one of the most painfully unfunny and inept comedies to come out
in 1999. Martin Lawrence mugs and ad-luibs his way through a script
with no funny lines as if one could make a film funny through sheer
high-energy antics. had the script had a little credibility to work
with, perhaps he might have succeeded, but the film is so bereft of
any idea of what it's doing, it merely calls attention to how
desperately Lawrence is to spark some comedic situations where none
can be found. Doing little or no research into police procedures (or
criminal ones for that matter), this film has no believable legs to
stand on and offers only idiotically contrived moments we've seen
done a hundred times before. Bad performances, bad directing, bad
screenwriting...what would you say that adds up to? BLUE STREAK is
one streak that truly BLEW.
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