All About the Benjamins (2002)
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 76
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 53
A sloppy, poorly directed action-comedy, All About the Benjamins is too derivative and gratuitously violent.
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 16
A sloppy, poorly directed action-comedy, All About the Benjamins is too derivative and gratuitously violent.
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Rap star and actor Ice Cube produces, co-writes, and stars in this comic crime thriller that reunites him with his Next Friday (1999) co-star Mike Epps in the 48 Hrs. (1982) mold. Cube plays Bucum Jackson, a Miami bounty hunter for Martinez Bail Bonds who's tired of his dangerous, unprofitable profession and wants to start his own private investigation firm. Lacking stake money, Bucum is forced to hunt down a small-time grafter named Reggie Wright (Epps), a fast-talking confidence man who's
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Cast
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Ice Cube
Bucum -
Mike Epps
Reggie Wright -
Eva Mendes
Gina -
Tommy Flanagan
Williamson -
Carmen Chaplin
Ursula -
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Roger Guenveur Smith
Ramose -
Anthony Michael Hall
Lil' J -
Lil Bow Wow
Kelly -
Anthony Giaimo
Martinez -
Jeff Chase
Mango -
Gino Salvano
Mickey -
Evelyn Brooks
Ms. Steinberg -
Joan Turner
Ms. Scharfenberg
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All Critics (87) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (54) | DVD (11)
The home-run performances of Cube and Epps are handicapped by inept and illogical action sequences.
Top CriticGoes a long way on hedonistic gusto.
In this refreshingly shameless celebration of money and expensive stuff, director Kevin Bray grabs every retro action-film cliché.
Mugging, not robbery, is the name of the game.
Something puddles to nothing in this relentless Miami sun.
One groan-inducing familiarity begets another.
Violent film for Ice Cube. He can do better.
They failed to get a consistently funny script or a director capable of effectively staging an action scene.
This one is a waste of your Washingtons.
I could go on and on about how funny this film is, because it is truly great comedy.
Directed by Kevin Bray, whose crisp framing, edgy camera work, and wholesale ineptitude with acting, tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut.
It plays like a by-the-numbers action flick that happens to have a few funny lines in it. It is barely watchable.
Hit and miss as far as the comedy goes and a big ole' miss in the way of story.
It's often a sloppy and muddled tale - but there are much worse ways to spend a random 90 minutes.
Unremittingly over-the-top and brutal, All About the Benjamins is as cunning as it is crude.
the heroes become more loathsome as the story progresses.
Audience Reviews for All About the Benjamins
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Reggie: Who do you think I am, Mel Gibson?
A stupid funny buddy-action-comedy that works because of how well Cube and Mike Epps get along. A lot of fun to watch, with nothing else to it, but still funny enough. And Eva Mendez is always welcome, so that also helps. Funny parts and decent action.
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