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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.
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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Reviews for Held Up
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?
By the end, even the irrepressible Mr. Foxx seems tired and defeated.
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.
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.
Eastin's plot never strays from the predictable nor creates the proper comedic tension and urgency needed for the story to work.
Scenes begin with an amusing premise and a few laughs, but quickly fizzle as the jokes become increasingly one-note.
This slow and talky sitcom may leave its paying customers feeling Held Up.
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