Chris Rock runs for president.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 24, 2010

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

But in his acting pursuits, Rock just doesn't do well. He's stiff and uncomfortable on camera, especially when it comes to romantic or emotional scenes.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 19, 2003

A missed opportunity.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 10, 2003

[Rock] seems to think that expanding his critiques to feature-length form requires a cookie-cutter white southern governor as the enemy and lots of "bling bling" style as a positive counterpoint.

| Apr 4, 2003

It's pretty much a toothless dog.

Full Review | Apr 1, 2003

The satirical parts are sharp and funny while the broad comedy is banal and not funny. It makes for an insanely uneven movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 31, 2003

... I liked this premise in movies like Dave, or the Eddie Murphy movie The Distinguished Gentleman, where the unknown or the underdog becomes the candidate or even the president, but this is so poorly done.

Full Review | Mar 31, 2003

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 30, 2003

Not the sharpest political humor I've ever heard, but it gets my vote for the stupidest fun I've had in a long time.

| Mar 28, 2003

Though the comedy falls short of a debacle -- which is what such egocentric projects tend to be -- it isn't as sharp, fast or funny as Rock's stand-up routines.

Full Review | Mar 28, 2003

It's fast and funny and easily the smartest thing Rock has done in a long while.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 28, 2003

It's mostly just bland and occasionally embarrassing.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 28, 2003

A pleasing and occasionally very funny movie that maintains a mild but consistent hold on its audience.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 28, 2003

[Rock] and Bernie Mac ... provide a furious combination of stylistically different but equally effective jabs at the status quo.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 28, 2003

It hits easy targets with broad swipes, and its simple message is the same as Disney kiddie fare: Be yourself.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Mar 28, 2003

Ascends to caustic comic outrage every so often and is dopily amusing the rest of the time.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 28, 2003

Now safe is commendable in a car or a household appliance, but it doesn't measure up in a comedy. Safe just isn't funny.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 28, 2003

Based on Rock's awkward performances, it's anybody's guess why DreamWorks thought the comic was remotely ready to step behind the camera.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 28, 2003

What it does wrong is hard to miss, but what it does right is hard to find: it makes an angry and fairly timely comic attack on an electoral system where candidates don't say what they really think but simply repeat safe centrist banalities.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2003