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Release Date: 09 December, 2003 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $11.99 You SAVE: $3.00! Cast: Complete Cast (19 total) |
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LAWRENCE & ROBBINS FUNNY ¿ ¿ ¿ BUT
Martin Lawrence and Tim Robbins are two tremendous Hollywood talents with a very broad range reaching from drama to comedy. Therefore, even with a dumb script Lawrence and Robbins made an excellent comedy team.They played off well one against the other. BUT . . .
NOTHING TO LOSE opens with a stupid premise: a young advertising executive (Robbins) goes nuts when he mistakenly "catches" his gorgeous wife in bed with his boss. This launches the action in the movie along the lines of a guy run amok with an attitude of "nothing to lose" ... thinking he's lost his wife, and by default his career. While driving along in a daze, Lawrence jumps in his car in a failed attempt to carjack Robbins. Instead of handing over his car and wallet, Robbins goes on a suicide drive with the hapless would be holdup man holding on for dear life. Thus begins their adventure together.
Gratutious racism instead of clever dialogue in NOTHING TO LOSE is offensive. When Eddy Murphy once in awhile responds in a white-guy, black-guy movie using the term "whitey" it's O.K. (e.g., TRADING PLACES and BEVERLY HILLS COP). When in a FAMILY THING (see my review), James Earl Ray asks his half brother Earl Pritcher (played by Robert Duvall), "how does it feel to be a colored?" that's O.K. too. These are in the context of the plot and characters, and it makes sense because it is consistent with the story line. But in NOTHING TO LOSE, Martin Lawrence keeps addressing Tim Robbins as "white boy" and "whitey," and it's NOT "O.K." Why? In the context of Lawrence's character (who we later get to know as a decent out of work, self-educated, unemployed, loyal family man black-guy) this incessant "whitey" and "white boy" is totally out of character. This can be so-called racism in reverse; a kind of stealth racism. It is still racism in a movie trying to pretend to be "hip" and "cool" .... and fails at both!
Well that's the writer and director Steve Oedekerk 's fault. Instead of trying to immortalize himself on screen (he plays the wacky security guard), Oedekerk should have focued on making the movie! On the positive side, there are several good car chase scenes (special effects) and fairly humorous hold-up scenes. The similarly talented McGinley and Esposito played two real bad guy crooks competing with and pursuing the Lawrence/Robbins amateur crooks. In the end there is no morality or deep humor in the movie. Given the great acting talent available to Oedekerk, NOTHING TO LOSE wound up being a pretty limp product.
This movie is worth seeing for the occasional funny scenes which Lawrence and Robbins manage to pull off .... but other than that, don't expect much from this flick.
Martin Lawrence and Tim Robbins are an amazing duo.
Martin Lawrence, from the instant classic sit-com Martin, as well as other excellent movies and comedy, teamed with Tim Robbins from Shawshank Redemption. There will definitely be worthy results in this movie. It's a hilarious comedy featuring Tim Robbins as a executive who catches his wife in bed with his boss, and goes for a drive. Martin is waiting to car-jack Tim Robbins, however, he picked the wrong day to do it and Robbins takes off, bringing Martin with him. They rob a couple stores and eventually Tim Robbins concocts a plan to rob his boss, but while in the process of completing this move, he and Martin are trailed by two other criminals, and get into various encounters with them on their way, each one turns out to be hilarious. Just one of those movies you have to witness for yourself, it's a shame some people are criticizing Nothing To Lose because of the sound equipment used and just the situation in the movie. It doesn't matter how many times a black/white uniting movie is made just as long as they add something new and refreshing to it that makes it worth watching. And Nothing To Lose does just that. And criticizing a movie just because there's a little bit of swearing in it? Preposterous, it would be understandable if the entire movie was filled with bad words but this movie is definitely not one of those. In my opinion, this is a very good movie, but putting two talented actors together you shouldn't expect anything less. Nothing To Lose is a comedic, interesting and just all-around excellent film. This is coming from someone who doesn't even like movies that much. So listen to my advice, and try out Nothing To Lose, starring Martin Lawrence and Tim Robbins.
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