Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 01/17/2003(USA)
Release Date: 05/27/2003
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD
Run Time: 88 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Language, Adult Humor, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
Adversaries become wary allies in this free-wheeling
action comedy.
Hank Rafferty (
Steve Zahn) is a Los Angeles Police Department officer who finds himself out of a job after he becomes involved in a violent altercation with police academy flunk-out
Earl Montgomery (
Martin Lawrence), escalating into a media event which brings the LAPD a wealth of bad publicity. Unable to find work,
Hank finally takes a job as a "rent-a-cop" with a private security firm -- and discovers to his annoyance that his new partner is
Earl. While neither of them are thrilled to be working together on the lowest strata of the law enforcement community, the two find themselves dealing with bigger crime than they expected when they stumble across evidence of a elite smuggling network operated by criminal mastermind
Nash (
Eric Roberts).
Hank and
Earl want to put
Nash out of business, and they try without success to persuade the police of the importance of the case. But before long they discover it's not just
Nash's men who are after them, but two high-ranking LAPD officials,
Lt. Washington (
Bill Duke) and
Detective McDuff (
Colm Feore).
National Security was directed by
Dennis Dugan, who'd previously helmed antic
comedies starring
Adam Sandler and
Chris Farley; this film also marked
Martin Lawrence's entry into the elite of Hollywood's
comedy stars, with
Lawrence taking home a 20-million-dollar paycheck for his work on the picture.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
