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Critics Consensus: The action in National Security is mindless, while the humor says nothing insightful about racial issues.
Critic Consensus: The action in National Security is mindless, while the humor says nothing insightful about racial issues.
All Critics (89) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (79) | DVD (10)
It's too bad Martin already made What's the Worst That Could Happen? The title really fits this one.
As the two cop manqués overcome their dearth of common sense to save the day, the film achieves a comic playfulness.
Despite some tasty contributions from Lawrence and Zahn, too much of National Security has the bland flavor of microwaved leftovers.
Someone has to save us from Lawrence's onslaught of cinematic dross.
A lame blend of comedy and action in which both credibility and laughs are blown to smithereens.
A retread of all those buddies-in- the-cop-car pictures of the 1980s; not even slightly dusted off.
Indistinguishable dumb action comedy.
If... Martin Lawrence and Adam Sandler [were] in the same movie, it might... create an anti-comedy field so strong that both their careers would be sucked into the vortex...
A patently offensive, racist and repulsive waste of celluloid, an affront to blacks, whites and human beings in general.
Put your hands up and back away from this rent-a-flop.
If rampant misogyny and racism sound like a laugh riot, by all means see National Security, a 'comedy' so aggressively unpleasant that it's worthy of squirms.
This is lowest common dominator filmmaking in every sense of the word, which shouldn't come as any surprise to anyone familiar with the oeuvre of director Dennis Dugan.
C
Super Reviewer
Complete crap, this movie wasn't even funny one bit!
a hot black chick would never date Steve Zahn
Very funny.
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