Absolutely Fantastic

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

I saw this late at night on a minor channel and I put it on expecting a laugh or two. Martin Lawrence is a good comic actor and I reckoned he might be a good stand-up comedian/actor in the style of Richard Pryor.I couldn't have been more wrong. This concert was awful. It was full of racist comments directed at white people, Muslims and people from India (Muslims and Indians are the same thing in Lawrence's narrow mind) and rambling, clichéd cod-philosophy (Lawrence, like many black comics and directors, can't resist the urge to preach when given a platform. Do we really need a lecture on Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights struggle during a stand-up comedy show?). Then there were his fawning comments designed to ingratiate him with women, it made my skin crawl listening to him.Worst of all, the show simply wasn't funny and I found it boring. I turned over halfway through and flipped back to find him either still preaching or going on and on and on about the birth of his child (there was no humour in the story of the birth of his child and it was self-indulgent on his part to bore us with the details. He clearly didn't have very much to say or he would have cut this section of the show out).This show was rubbish: Runteldat!

From the man who gave us you go girl/boy, wazzzup and talk to the hand, comes the comedy of a genius. He takes us into his world and explains what exactly happened - TRUTHFULLY. He tells it like it is, but with great humour. For me first it was Richard Pryor, then Eddie Murphy, now it's my man Martin. He speaks of one of the best documentaries ever filmed, Eyes on the Prize and talks fondly of his namesake, the late-great, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Fine, he may say f*** alot, but he's very passionate and that word is for the passionate to express themselves. Def Jam's original host made me laugh, cry and cheer. I recommend to all of you who want a good laugh and don't have too many hang ups. Bring us some Mr. Lawrence.

The comedian Martin Lawrence tells his audience at the half-way through his concert film "Runteldat" about his days at HBO. He points out to them: "Ya'll better remember who was the original host of Def Comedy Jam ya'll unforgetful bunch of motha****ers". Indeed he did get some respect for that and then some.The comic keeps it more real in the confessional level and he talks in detail about the events of 9/11,his own turmonial involving his confrontation with the police on various charges and his own brush with death including the near death breakdown in the middle of traffic on a Los Angeles freeway in 1996. This is clean but raunchy cleanup with the same get-a-load-of-me bluster he flaunted on "Def Comedy Jam" and in his own X-rated 1994 concert film "You So Crazy",but beneath the braggadocio he comes off as a warmer,more,self-savvy and altogether a very funnier person(something that Eddie Murphy may need to go back to getting his career a boosting battery charge of his film career).Anyway its a confessional comedy lite from a performer who should realize,by now,that he only gets funnier the more he reveals. Also,to make a note this was filmed at Consitutional Hall in Washington,D.C. where Marian Anderson who refused entrance by the Daughters of the American Revolution which she was cordially invited by first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Nowadays you see Martin Lawrence doing concert films and that lets you know that there a change a coming and its here.

Martin was funny..at times.. but sometimes it was just mildly entertaining. no new jokes, nothing that will knock you off your seat. The best part was about his own life incidents. I didnt realize how near death he was. Recommended only to the hard core Martin fans.