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Release Date: Sep 15, 2000; Rated: R; Length: 119 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Crime; With: Jamie Foxx and David Morse
D+
By Steve Daly
Steve Daly
Steve Daly
Steve Daly is a senior writer at EW, and also author of EW.com's Money Shot column

Director Antoine Fuqua's exhaustingly over-cut, ultra-baroque visual style keeps the film lurching back and forth from one scene to another, as jailbird Jamie Foxx winds up with a transmitter unwittingly buried in his jaw so that he'll lead a surly federal agent (David Morse) to The Evil Mastermind. Through two distended hours, Foxx's wise-guy charm is played against Morse's uptight ferocity in a way that often panders to stereotypical views on race relations, giving the whole picture a patronizing air. D+


Posted Sep 29, 2000
 

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