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Held Up (2000)

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Reviews Counted: 28

Fresh: 4

Rotten:24

Average Rating: 3.1/10

Consensus: Lackluster performances and fluff humor can't keep this wreck from sinking.

Runtime: 88 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Foxx portrays Michael Dawson, a successful Chicago businessman whose life falls apart while he's driving to the Grand Canyon with his gorgeous fiancee, Rae (Long). When Rae discovers that he has... Foxx portrays Michael Dawson, a successful Chicago businessman whose life falls apart while he's driving to the Grand Canyon with his gorgeous fiancee, Rae (Long). When Rae discovers that he has used their savings to buy the car, she cuts off the engagement and leaves him behind. Intent on driving back to Chicago to win Rae back, Michael instead finds himself stuck in a hillbilly town when a young punk steals his car. And when a gang of bandits attempts to rob the "Sip & Zip," it's up to Michael to keep the bumbling thieves and incompetent cops from doing real damage to each other. [More]

Starring: Jamie Foxx, Nia Long, Barry Corbin, Jake Busey

Starring: Jamie Foxx, Nia Long, Barry Corbin, Jake Busey, Andrew Jackson

Director: Steve Rash

Director: Steve Rash
Screenwriter: Jeff Eastin
Story: Erik Fleming, Jeff Eastin
Producer: Neal H. Moritz, Jonathon Komack Martin, Stokely Chaffin
Composer: Robert Folk

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Greg Muskewitz
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07/24/01
Ryan Cracknell
Apollo Guide

Which is scarier: Foxx, abandoned in a hick town, caught up in a botched robbery attempt; or you, trapped inside a theater, forced into watching this god-awful movie?

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By the end, even the irrepressible Mr. Foxx seems tired and defeated.

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Athan Bezaitis
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In this disjointed comedy, Foxx is just a Murphy clone.

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Dennis Hunt
San Diego Union-Tribune

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01/01/00
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

It might be Foxx who's the hostage in Held Up, but by the time the static, feeble movie crawls to a close it's the audience that will feel trapped.

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01/01/00
Frank Swietek
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There are points in the movie where you think you're ready to laugh, but, like the movie as a whole, they don't amount to much.

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01/01/00
Gene Seymour
Newsday
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Thanks to an attractive cast and an air of amiability, much of it works.

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George Meyer
Orlando Weekly

Eastin's plot never strays from the predictable nor creates the proper comedic tension and urgency needed for the story to work.

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Jim Judy
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Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

I'd rather be held up than have to sit through this again.

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Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
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Scenes begin with an amusing premise and a few laughs, but quickly fizzle as the jokes become increasingly one-note.

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