Movies starring Martin Lawrence
48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, and Lethal Weapon were all, to some extent, reasonably entertaining action films. The unavoidable result of their success has been a long string of sequels and rip-offs. The latest is Bad Boys, an overlong sample ...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-04-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Tea Leoni, ...
Has the passage of 18 years and the removal of Michael Bay from the director’s chair revived or redeemed the roadkill represented by the previous Bad Boys sequel? To a certain extent, yes, but only when one considers that the third installme...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-01-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action
Director: Adil El Arbi, Billal Fallah
Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Joe Pantoliano, ...
The only thing as bad as bad comedy is bad action. Bad Boys II has plenty of both. In fact, those two things are all it has, unless you count the small helping of bad drama. When it comes to this movie, the word "bad" initially seems highly appr...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-07-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Gabrielle Union, ...
I’m not sure what more I can say about Bad Boys: Ride or Die, the fourth installment in the over-the-hill franchise, that I haven’t written in reviews of the previous films. Unsurprisingly, considering it has the same directors as the third Ba...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-06-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Brief Nudity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Action/Comedy
Director: Adil & Billall
Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, ...
Death at a Funeral addresses the question of whether a British comedy featuring a bunch of white guys can translate into an American setting with a group of (primarily) black characters. Since the answer is "yes," this says something about the fle...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-04-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Neil LaBute
Cast: Chris Rock, Columbus Short, Peter Dinklage, ...
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate is muddled to the point of tedium. The screenplay is credited to four writers, and its unevenness argues that none of them were on the same wavelength. Subplots start but never finish, characters come and go...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-04-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Violence)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Martin Lawrence
Cast: Martin Lawrence, Lynn Whitfield, Regina King, ...
On the surface, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins is just another Martin Lawrence comedy, filled with slapstick, crude sexual shenanigans, and cruelty to animals. But, looking a little deeper, one discovers a surprisingly dark undercurrent. There's a p...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-02-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Malcolm D. Lee
Cast: Martin Lawrence, Joy Bryant, Mo'Nique, ...
Wild Hogs is more tired, worn out, and sagging than its protagonists - an arthritic comedy whose humor is below mediocre and whose drama is cringe-worthy. Were it not for the marketability of its stars, this movie would be headed directly for Netf...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-03-02
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Walt Becker
Cast: Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, ...