Why so much hype?

Absolutely Brilliant!

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The purpose of a movie is to entertain, nothing else. This one fails badly. The dialogue is terrible. The movie is slow. The one good scene has a character never in the movie again. I could give you examples of why this film never achieves it goal, which isn't what you might think from the opening, but that would waste your time as much as this movie. Spend two hours watching clouds instead.

Two LAPD detectives who moonlight in other fields investigate the murder of an up-and-coming rap group.One of the few major critics to give it a positive notice was Roger Ebert, who awarded the film 3 out of 4 stars. I am surprised by Ebert on this one. While I do not by any means think the movie is as bad as most people seem to, I would be hard pressed to say it was good. Something about it just seems off.I got the impression that this sort of movie would work well as a television program, especially in today's world with the bigger budgets TV shows. It would make a good running gag to have cops who moonlight as other things.

Maybe it's just me. Whenever I watch a movie under the genre "comedy", I always expect the movie to make me laugh like a moron. The problem with smart comedies is that they excel in being smart, but they are also extremely lame in triggering actual laughter. Sometimes a really smart joke is spoken by one of the characters, and by the time you realize that it is a smart joke and you find the humorous bit, the stain-power of the joke has already gone stale. For me, I merely smiled. In the crime-thriller aspect, although this movie was sufficient for people's thirst for thrills, I couldn't help but feel that the reason for the murdering and the choice of the murderer was a bit too lame, and somehow I feel that movies like the first Rush Hour and many crime movies derived from crime novels have done better. If the writers/directors/producers of the film kept the genre of the film as simply an action film and not anything else, then it might get better ratings. Summary? Great action film. Lame crime/comedy film, which might explain why it got "a 30% approval rating based on 155 critics' reviews" (wikipedia). PS. Harrison Ford's acting is still awesome

I didn't watch this expecting Oscar performances or an Oscar type script. I just wanted to watch a movie that entertained. And it did. Without huge gobs of blood, without cuss words every other second etc. I LOVED when H.Ford's character goes in to J.H.'s yoga class and Josh asks him how he found him. Harrison says, " I'm psychic." Josh goes, "Really?" and means that. hahah And all the women fawning over Josh is too funny and cute. Not to mention all the real estate stuff with Harrison Ford...trying to stay afloat. There is a LOT of that right now. hahahWorth watching and chill on the criticisms...geez, it is a movie, not brain surgery, right? Bad cop...no donut.