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“Blue Streak” is in the upper echelons of a cop buddy genre, resting in the “Lethal Weapon” aisle. It has all the standard features of a cop comedy, like the standard Dunkin Donuts endorsement, but its creative in execution – and there’s a powerful central performance from Martin Lawrence that is hard to describe without invoking Mel Gibson’s over the top action vehicle cliché alongside Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
Lawrence opens the film with a evocative caper scene; he plays jewel thief Miles Logan and the character is starting to plan a complicated burglar which involves illegal entry, disabling alarm systems, and steel escape cable plans. Everything goes wrong, alas, and he finds himself on a construction site armed with a seven thirteen million dollar diamond disguised as a light. He tapes it inside a tunnel duct, gets arrested, and is sent off to prison.
Two years lapse. Back on the pavement, he spots his ex – there is no joy. (‘I didn’t come over to see you for two years. Isn’t that a hint?’) Now there is even more bad news. The edifice being erected happens to be a police station and the diamond is buried deep in there somewhere. How to get it? He attempts to reach the burglary department on the third level by posing as a lunatic pizza deliveryman. Not the best plan, but he keeps winging it, and for some reason he is getting confused with an actual cop. Before long he is on the street with a new partner (Luke Wilson) who is an overjoyed traffic officer working with a genius like Miles.
Miles is clearly no ordinary cop. It does not take long for his partners to learn his name and badge number don’t match. But he is so self-assured, and so barbaric in brutalizing suspects, they take him as a genuine officer, of some sort, that has colonized the department. His boss (William Forsythe) likes everything about him and has arguments on the true nature of his identity. FBI? Internal Affairs? CIA? The movie, by Les Mayfield (“Encino Man”), does not get stuck on the paradox that Miles is a criminal trying to be a police officer. It takes that as a fact and builds humor around it – for example, in a hilarious moment, where Miles stumbles into a hold-up of a convenient store, but it is being done by one of his former criminal associates. While the other cop is keeping them at bay from a distance, Miles tries to barter for the criminals’ lives in a very crazy, yet innovative way.
Is it alright if I ask you some questions that seemed out of place in the previous conversation? Still, if the old friend keeps his mouth shut, Miles will give him 10 grand and only one night in jail. In those situations, I have always wondered why someone would even consider saying, ‘Alright, $20,000?’ But I like a car chase that actually entertains me, and it doesn’t matter if it is in the middle of a war that is raging within a civilization. Why don’t we just put aside these subjects? I do remember that casting of the villains is really important for the sub genre which is a combination of comedy and action. ” Martin Lawrence is a comedian that sometimes gets over shadowed by the fact that he is actually good at what he does. I know it might sound weird, but I do have the best interest of the nation in heart and I totally get where he’s coming from. He is currently undergoing vigorous jogging routines to get back in shape after suffering non-fatal heatstroke.
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