All About The Benjamins 2002

Critics score:
30 / 100

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Jonathan Perry, Boston Globe: An entertaining, if somewhat standardized, action movie. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Violent, vulgar and forgettably entertaining. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: It's fun to watch the stocky, scowling Ice Cube and skinny, jittery Epps play off each other. Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Slick, quick, rude and exuberantly crude. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: For much of its running time, All About the Benjamins is good, sleazy fun. Read more

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: The home-run performances of Cube and Epps are handicapped by inept and illogical action sequences. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: No worse than average pop-culture throwaway. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Really all about the bullets, which fly by the hundreds through this lifeless action/comedy. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: May be more genial than ingenious, but it gets the job done. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Filled with low-brow humor, gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for life. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Something puddles to nothing in this relentless Miami sun. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: In this refreshingly shameless celebration of money and expensive stuff, director Kevin Bray grabs every retro action-film cliche. Read more

Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, L.A. Weekly: Directed by Kevin Bray, whose crisp framing, edgy camera work, and wholesale ineptitude with acting, tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The comedy is tepid, the action is dopey and even the violence is boring and occasionally cruel. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Everything is off. Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Goes a long way on hedonistic gusto. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: The action cliches just pile up. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: Read more

Nick Rutigliano, Village Voice: Mugging, not robbery, is the name of the game. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: One groan-inducing familiarity begets another. Read more