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01 2008

All About the Benjamins

Name Ice Cube Cube Vision production company, and, unlike some other gamma title, the moniker is apt. Former rapper, no doubt, an eye for entertainment, as shown in his successful comedy Friday “and” Next Friday, which he co-wrote, and his outstanding skill debut director, Players Club.

All About the Benjamins, Cuba in the last writing / starring (and now production) efforts show that the ex-NWA star vision is still alive. Arguably cubes of the most entertaining film after three kings, Benjamins is one helluva romp, drawing in Florida environment Bad Boys injection, but he was stylish sass Guy Ritchie in the British crime capers.

Cube plays a Miami bounty hunter named Bucum (as in “Book em, Danno”) Jackson, who makes a decent life for catching bail-jumpers for a high short bondsman (Anthony Giaimo). Bucum But not satisfied with just collect paycheck. He wants to make a few serious “Benjamins” by starting his own firm with his eyes receptionist, Pam (Valerie Rae Miller), but could not raise the capital. example, currently, Bucum grumbles just before departure from collecting another small-time hood too stupid to show on his court date.

One client wanted to short-con artist Wright Reggie (Mike Epps) - not that we get to see any of his plans, as Reggie seemed to prefer store with the help of some foul-mouthed sexagenarians. But somehow, it provides a decent apartment on the beach and keep the attention of leggy Latina Gina (Eva Mendes). Heck, he even money to blow on Idiot tax, the so-called state lottery.

After Reggie Gina, and actually win the lottery is an example of how implausible Benjamins is. The fact that they Bucum and Pam get mixed up with some ruthless jewel thieves “$ 20 million heist would make absurd - if the film is not so much fun. No music-video director Kevin Bray works in the way of, keeping Events rolling along at a steady clip, and with the help of a camera and editing tricks to spice events on the screen, not to exceed them.

Brey also wise to allow Cuba and participate in improvisational Epps ago, and they continue to do so well in next Friday. Cube skillfully plays straight man Epps “all yakkin ‘trickster, and as a result of chemical closer to Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin in repartee Starting at midnight than Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in the Bad Boys in. Unlike Lawrence, whose shtick is made up of several types of routines recycled over and over again, Epps is original and funny comics flow. He, like Chris Tucker without whine, riffing on everything in mind in an energetic yet naturalistic manner. Yes, it is always running off at the mouth, but somehow it would feel wrong if it were not.

It is only toward the end that all O Benjamins stumbles. There, in the period of necessary villain-who’s-not quite dead end, and the finale could probably speak, as the opening credits roll. However, Epps providing constant flow of zingers (his lambasting of the necessary European classic bad guy), Mendez, and traded villain Carmen Chaplin (granddaughter of Charlie) providing eye candy, and Kubik Writer showing flashes wacko originality (dig that the soul — torture scene!), in the movie, faults can melt away in the oppressive heat of Miami. (There’s even a sequence equipped unrecognizable Anthony Michael Hall in the groin tasered receipt!), it may not always receive gold, but definitely worth Benjamins Hamilton.

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