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All About the Benjamins (2002)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Tommy Flanagan Trio, Anthony Michael Hall, Eva Mendes
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They failed to get a consistently funny script or a director capable of effectively staging an action scene.
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 home-run performances of Cube and Epps are handicapped by inept and illogical action sequences.
Director Kevin Bray excels in breaking glass and marking off the “Miami Vice” checklist of power boats, Latin music and dog tracks. He doesn’t, however, deliver nearly enough of the show's trademark style and flash.
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by: shivors 3/11/02
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