There's enough nice timing and character surprises to make it click at least half of the time.
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Held Up (2000)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:5
Rotten:24
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: Lackluster performances and fluff humor can't keep this wreck from sinking.
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Reviews for Held Up
Top CriticWhile an attempt to satirize the conventions of the hostage drama may have seemed an interesting notion, Held Up falls down on almost every count.
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It's hard not to wonder if Foxx owed somebody a favor when he signed on to make a movie this amateurish.
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It takes some doing to make performers as magnetic and energetic as Foxx and Long uninteresting to watch, and that's exactly what Rash and Eastin have managed to accomplish here.
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In this disjointed comedy, Foxx is just a Murphy clone.
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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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Held Up is a fish-out-of-water comedy that is all wet from the start.
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Top CriticI'd rather be held up than have to sit through this again.
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This slow and talky sitcom may leave its paying customers feeling Held Up.
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Top CriticThanks to an attractive cast and an air of amiability, much of it works.
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Everybody's timing seems off the beat, as if they're trying to get a handle on the script, which has more tone than jokes.
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It's a movie so foul even the folks at the NAACP Image Awards would have to look the other way.
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Held Up is a real dud, with few laughs, no characterization, little story, a cluster of stereotypes and clichés and just plain nothing for Foxx to do.
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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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Even if it isn't much of a comedy, at least it's a good-spirited one. The cast gives it their all, but the material is hopeless.
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By the end, even the irrepressible Mr. Foxx seems tired and defeated.
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Top CriticThere 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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Top CriticThere's an obligatory feel-good ending that's totally unbelievable, and the raunchy first act banter between Foxx and his girlfriend is disconcertingly at odds with the Preston Sturges-style stuff that follows.
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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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