| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2002

This prison dramedy's muddled, episodic script seems to have gone on a hunger strike for humor!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Life desperately wants to let Murphy and Lawrence be actors, but it can't imagine them as anything more than rowdy showmen.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Lawrence and Murphy make an entertaining team!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

An unexpectedly moving surprise!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A very funny/surprisingly poignant story!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Lively, packed with colorful characters and spiked with outbursts of outrageous banter!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Ribald, funny and sometimes sweet, and well acted by Murphy, Lawrence and a strong supporting cast.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Lawrence's best movie and one of Murphy's best!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

We have been treated to something we normally would never get in a prison comedy like this: a little delicacy with the humor.

| Jan 1, 2000

Life plays more like This Is Your Life for Eddie Murphy, cobbling together elements from his earlier, funnier movies.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Funny, sad, conventional, unpredictable -- just like the real thing!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000