Absolutely Brilliant!

Absolutely brilliant

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Martin Lawrence, Tim Robbins, John C. McGinley, Giancarlo Esposito, Kelly Preston and Michael McKean star in this 1997 comedy. Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption) plays mild-mannered executive, Nick who assumes his wife, Ann (Preston) is having an affair. Lawrence (Bad Boys) plays Terrance, a would-be thief who is looking for work. He and Nick cross paths when Terrance tries stealing Nick's car, but Nick decides to kidnap him. Soon, they get into mischief when they decide to steal together. Nick and Terrance become friends in the process and when Nick learns his wife is not cheating on him, he tries to make things right as well as Terrance. McGinley (Wall Street) plays criminal, Davis, Esposito (The Usual Suspects) plays his partner, Charlie and McKean (Coneheads) plays Nick's boss, Phil. This is a good comedy, Lawrence & Robbins are great in this and together. I recommend this.

I love how Tim Robbins' character loses his mind in Nothing to Lose! Nothing to Lose is a really funny, very good movie, mostly for its interesting interactions between Robbins and Lawrence's characters in their hilarious adventure they share together! Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence is a somewhat unusual pairing. Writer and director, Steve Oedekerk, came up with a great premise, a man down and out in his love life feeling like he's got nothing left to lose, Robbins, crosses paths with a car jacking thief looking for himself a little something to gain, Lawrence, and let's just say the two then proceed to hit it off in a very funny manner! Oedekerk really did fairly nice to bring the film's premise together as a very good film, fairly nice, but the end of the movie is a bit of an easy exit, and the beginning lead up to the movie's main portion of Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence is sort of scrambled and uncertain of how to get into the story, almost feeling like a different type of movie, thank God though that the sensational Kelly Preston plays a strong presence in the beginning, but once Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence meet, Nothing to Lose gets very good and amusing. The previous sentence I just wrote is rather pointless and I suggest that you do not even read it, except only for the part about the incredibly gorgeous Kelly Preston, oh wow! Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence make this movie as good as it became. These two stars share great chemistry with great comedic timing, even Robbins! Tim Robbins has never been this good in a comedy! He is funny! And Nothing to Lose is one of Martin Lawrence's better movies; it's up there with Life and Blue Streak for Lawrence's best comedy. Lawrence's best comedy is Life, but I can honestly say that I like all of his comedies, and honestly, what am I talking about, I love Martin Lawrence, of course I like all his comedies. Martin is like my favorite show! Martin is the greatest, Lawrence, not the show, well the show is but, so is Martin! When I first watched Nothing to Lose I loved it, and nothing has changed. Nothing to Lose is so funny, and the two lead actors, Robbins and Lawrence, really make the movie great. This movie is one of the moreso unknown about good comedies so you should give it a good chance if you haven't already seen it and it should be definitely worth it.

Before Hollywood got it's hands on him, Martin Lawrence was an outrageous and hilarious stand-up comedian. In recent years, he was been toned down, in an effort to turn him into another Will Smith, but back in the day, there were few who were as funny or extreme as Martin Lawrence. Nothing To Lose is a great example of just how good, Lawrence was during his prime. The story follows Nick Beam, (Tim Robbins) a man who has seen something that no man should ever see. Devastated and downtrodden, Beam drops everything and goes for a drive, when a street thug named T, (Martin Lawrence) puts a gun in his face and tries to take his car. Beam's responds by laughing and saying, "Boy did you pick the wrong guy on the wrong day," and then he floors it, taking us into an improbably, but terrific adventure. Ever since his portrayal of Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption, Tim Robbins has been tight-cased into these high profile dramatic roles, making it hard to remember that he actually got his start doing comedy. The lanky, lovable, anger-crazed man he plays in this film is absolutely hysterical. The chemistry between Robbins and Lawrence is what makes this film work. They both have a distinct form of comedy that you wouldn't expect to work as well as it does, but I can say without hesitation that this under the radar comedy is one of the funniest movies I have seen in a very long time.

The plot isn't even /structured right/. The ending makes /no sense/. It's /racist/. And bottom line, I'm still trying to figure out what Hollywood idiot still believes that crossing and then "breaking" Black and white stereotypes is funny. Not only have we seen this a million times, but it /never/ happens in real life, so it feels fake, and probably wouldn't happen this way either. But again, this one is particularly bad, because the story itself isn't even well-written or structured according to the traditional rules of film. It's just /horrible/.Look, Martin Lawrence's character is a /carjacker/. Do you /know/ any actual car jackers? They aren't poor misunderstood sorts with a heart of gold who've been driven to this by poverty. To bring yourself to jack someone's car, you're /really/ low. Tim Robbins's character sees his wife /screwing someone else/ and discovers, "oops, he was mistaken." Their relationship couldn't possibly have been as good as it turns out in the end if a) she didn't bother to look for him, just worry, and b) he decided to end it all once he found out (and what kind of self esteem is that?!). I mean, he doesn't even question her explanation! So you can't buy a single thing in this film. If they'd wanted to use a car jacker, make it funny by either having him driven to it by some absurd circumstance (make /Robbins/ the car jacker), or make him a /real/ car jacker, and make it a Black comedy. This is just some movie comedy crap that has been largely forgotten for a reason.