How watchable this film is depends almost exclusively on your tolerance of Martin Lawrence. It's pretty much entirely his movie. Wilson is just barely there at all, and the rest of the players are there to play off Lawrence(or maybe rather, for him to play off), or provide obstacles for him in his continued quest for the diamond. I'm not quite sure why exactly we should care about his character... he's not sympathetic, and his actions are all motivated by his desire to get his hands on the aforementioned former piece of coal. The action is somewhat limited, but OK. It may have gone more for comedy than excitement, well, that, or the director didn't know how to do proper action(and the end of the last bit to feature it came out of nowhere). The plot is decent, I guess. The acting varies. Chapelle... you wouldn't know he was funny, from this(he certainly was in Robin Hood: Men in Tights). Greene, well, all you have to do to know the guy can play an unsavory character is watch either Pulp Fiction or The Mask. The music selection is, if nothing else, fitting. Some of the humor is gross-out comedy, and, while it could have been worse(which it probably would have been, had they not been trying for a PG-13... how they got it, I do not know, there was profanity enough), seemed... unnecessary. I recommend this to... fans of Martin Lawrence. 6/10
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