Martin Lawrence has already shown that he's comfortable doing action as long as
there's a little comedy thrown in, so this was a no-brainer for both the actor
and director Les Mayfield (Flubber). When the cops catch professional
criminal Miles Logan (Lawrence) stealing a $20 million diamond, he hides it in
a construction site; three years later he emerges from prison to find that the
site has become the LAPD's newest precinct. In order to reclaim his booty,
Logan has to pose as a cop, and through a zany turn of events he ends up
fighting bad guys and solving crimes.
Lawrence is lucky he looks and acts like an overgrown 12-year-old boy --
that's how his floppy-body, rubber-face antics manage to reach deep down to the
juvenile inside and, once in a while, yank out a chuckle before you even know
wazzup. Sure, Blue Streak has gratuitous wacky characters
(pizza-delivery guy with buck teeth and ugly jogging suit) and a few too many
instances of "BAM!" and "Ka-POW!" in Lawrence's dialogue. Then again, nobody
claimed this was the thinking man's movie.
--Jumana Farouky
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