If you want to get philosophical about "National Security," you could ask yourself this: Would you be able to forgive and perhaps even befriend the man who wrongly accused you of a crime that got you sent to prison?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 28, 2023

All the good stuff can be guffawed at in the opening half-hour. After that, you're on your own.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 5, 2020

Indistinguishable dumb action comedy.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 26, 2010

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 5, 2005

If... Martin Lawrence and Adam Sandler [were] in the same movie, it might... create an anti-comedy field so strong that both their careers would be sucked into the vortex...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 4, 2004

A patently offensive, racist and repulsive waste of celluloid, an affront to blacks, whites and human beings in general.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Sep 6, 2003

Put your hands up and back away from this rent-a-flop.

| Original Score: 38/100 | Aug 29, 2003

If rampant misogyny and racism sound like a laugh riot, by all means see National Security, a 'comedy' so aggressively unpleasant that it's worthy of squirms.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jun 26, 2003

This is lowest common dominator filmmaking in every sense of the word, which shouldn't come as any surprise to anyone familiar with the oeuvre of director Dennis Dugan.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 19, 2003

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 19, 2003

As disposable as they come, National Security is a modestly entertaining re-hash of cop-buddy films of the 80s.

| May 10, 2003

This is a two-star movie dragged down a star because of its unrepentant racism.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 21, 2003

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 22, 2003

Dugan's predictable, thin-plotted lark reads as little more than a black guy-white guy Three's Company.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Mar 4, 2003

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 27, 2003

Is it a thoroughly offensive attempt to disguise a reactionary view of African-Americans as manipulative, self-serving, serial complainers as 'comedy'? Definitely.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 18, 2003

A truly inane and flat action comedy.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 9, 2003

It's too bad Martin already made What's the Worst That Could Happen? The title really fits this one.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 31, 2003