Showtime: Critic Reviews

45%

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

25%

RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

50

... Showtime isn't much of a show at all.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

50

So pleased with its own spoofy conceit it stays in annoyingly self-amused, predictable mode.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Top Critic)

It's not so much the generally preposterous premise as it is its sloppy handling that completely unhinges the film.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jessica Winter Village Voice (Top Critic)

90 punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay, screeching-metal smashups, and flaccid odd-couple sniping.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Mark Caro Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

25

The thinness of the conception gives the actors so little room to maneuver that they turn in uniformly one-note performances.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Geoff Pevere Toronto Star (Top Critic)

25

You know you've entered flat dramatic terrain when William Shatner towers over it.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

80

A funny movie for adults and older teens.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Judith Egerton Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

50

Throughout the movie, De Niro scowls and looks as if something smells bad -- and something does. It's the script.
Full Review » 8 years ago
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

63

...the real problem with Showtime is that, for a comedy, it's not nearly funny enough.
Full Review » 9 years ago
John R. McEwen Film Quips Online

60

Pairing no-nonsense actor Robert De Niro and comedy king Eddie Murphy may have been a clever idea rife with possibilities, but they are working for a creative team that ultimately misses its own point.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope

17

Shatner is probably the funniest person in the film, which gives you an idea just how bad it was.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Mark Palermo Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

The uneasy balance of comedy and action -- including a shockingly dumb moment where we're expected to cheer police brutality -- does little justice to either genre.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jon Niccum Lawrence Journal-World

50

Murphy is no more capable of portraying an authentic cop than he is of going to the grocery store without a posse of Hollywood hangers-on.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 3BlackChicks Review

100

Showtime was right on time. I needed the laugh.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jason Clark Matinee Magazine

Showtime is about as crass and ridiculous as a motion picture can get without having the name Jerry Bruckheimer attached to it
Full Review » 10 years ago
John J. Puccio DVDTown.com

50

Showtime is closer to Slowtime.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Sean Burns Philadelphia Weekly

...such an egregious enough example of color-blind, tone-deaf incoherence that it warrants mention even amid the madding crowd of Bruckheimer debacles.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Audrey Rock-Richardson Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)

67

Showtime is one of the hapless victims of the arrogant "if we put together a wry white man and a chatty black man and give them guns, the movie will be funny" syndrome.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Pablo Villaca Cinema em Cena

60

E uma pena que, mais tarde, o proprio filme abandone o tom de parodia e passe a utilizar os mesmos cliches que havia satirizado.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Ian Waldron-Mantgani UK Critic

63

Makes a joke out of car chases for an hour and then gives us half an hour of car chases.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Eugene Novikov Film Blather

42

The very definition of autopilot.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Neil Smith BBC

40

There's surely something wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Larry Carroll Countingdown.com

9

As I try to think back to "Showtime" and type up a review, I'm getting a headache.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

63

Chalk up another big-name star vehicle that fails to live up to a wealth of potential.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Steve Rhodes Internet Reviews

75

It asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up.
Full Review » 10 years ago