All About the Benjamins: Critic Reviews

Something puddles to nothing in this relentless Miami sun.

The action cliches just pile up.

One groan-inducing familiarity begets another.

The comedy is clumsy; the violence vicious.

An entertaining, if somewhat standardized, action movie.

Mugging, not robbery, is the name of the game.

Filled with low-brow humor, gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for life.

The home-run performances of Cube and Epps are handicapped by inept and illogical action sequences.

Slick, quick, rude and exuberantly crude.

The action quickly sinks into by-the-numbers territory.

Goes a long way on hedonistic gusto.

In this refreshingly shameless celebration of money and expensive stuff, director Kevin Bray grabs every retro action-film cliche.

The comedy is tepid, the action is dopey and even the violence is boring and occasionally cruel.

While it has its amusing moments, the uneven pace, underplotted scripting and over-reliance on improvisation eventually take their combined toll.

Violent film for Ice Cube. He can do better.

They failed to get a consistently funny script or a director capable of effectively staging an action scene.

This one is a waste of your Washingtons.

I could go on and on about how funny this film is, because it is truly great comedy.

Directed by Kevin Bray, whose crisp framing, edgy camera work, and wholesale ineptitude with acting, tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut.

It plays like a by-the-numbers action flick that happens to have a few funny lines in it. It is barely watchable.

Hit and miss as far as the comedy goes and a big ole' miss in the way of story.

It's often a sloppy and muddled tale - but there are much worse ways to spend a random 90 minutes.

Unremittingly over-the-top and brutal, All About the Benjamins is as cunning as it is crude.

the heroes become more loathsome as the story progresses.

Director Kevin Bray excels in breaking glass and marking off the "Miami Vice" checklist of power boats, Latin music and dog tracks. He doesn't, however, deliver nearly enough of the show's trademark style and flash.