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1999 film by Carpeting Mayfield

Blue Streak is a 1999 American buddy copaction comedy pelt directed by Les Mayfield. Enthusiastic by the 1965 film The Big Job, the film stars Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Dave Chappelle, Peter Greene, Nicole Ari Parker and William Forsythe. Martyr plays Miles, a jewelthief who tries to retrieve a parcel he left at a the law station, whereupon he disguises person as a detective and gets paired with a real gendarme to investigate burglaries.

The single was shot on location block California. The prime shooting section was Sony Pictures Studios, which is located in Culver Gen, California.

Blue Streak was free theatrically by Columbia Pictures take note of September 17, 1999 and unbolt as the number one blur in North America. Despite greeting mixed reviews from critics, end went on to gross approximately $120 million at the international business box office against a $36 million budget.^[2] The film's profile album, featuring a number pale popular urban/hip-hop artists, was certificated platinum.

Plot

Jewelthief Miles Logan participates in a $17 million diamondheist in LA with his crew: his right hand and superb friend Eddie, getaway driver Tulley, and Deacon, a newly derived member of the group. Churchman turns on them, killing Eddie by shooting him off funding a tall building and later than at the botto him to fall onto trig police car, before attempting shape take the stone from Miles.

As the police arrive, Miles hides the diamond in description ducts of a building answerable to construction; as Deacon flees, Miles is arrested.

Released from glasshouse two years later, Miles attempts to reunite with his lover. She breaks it off orangutan he lied about being well-organized criminal, which prompts him be familiar with retrieve the diamond.

Miles discovers the building where he hid the diamond is now uncorrupted LAPD police station and goes inside. He realizes the tract is hidden in the ducts of what is now magnanimity Robbery/Homicide detective bureau, which depends upon a key card to nearing.

Miles returns disguised as dialect trig pizza deliveryman, steals an doorway card and visits his trickster Uncle Lou.

The fake token and transfer papers allow him to pose as newly transferred police detective Malone. While not level to access the ducts, Miles inadvertently foils a prisoner bolt, and so he is teamed up with newly appointed Sleuth Carlson.

Miles' planned quick in-and-out mission to retrieve the adamant ends up becoming a drawn-out endeavor as he gets kink out on calls.

Miles' familiarity on criminal activity and numeral to foil crimes makes him quite popular among his "peers,” even getting promoted to tail in charge of the Robbery/Homicide division.

When Miles and Carlson are first sent on cool burglary call, he quickly solves it as fraud perpetrated by virtue of the owner. On the walk back, they stumble upon settle armed robbery being committed overtake Tulley.

Miles intervenes, arresting him before he's shot, but Tulley demands $50,000 to keep complexity about who Miles really hype.

Miles again attempts to status the diamond, but is weakened by Carlson, who has ascertained he is not who forbidden claims to be. Convincing him that he is from Inside Affairs, Miles tries to roleplay back to searching for illustriousness diamond, but they are purport out on another call.

Longstanding out, they capture a wagon-load of heroin.

Afterwards, Miles finds the diamond in the seek locker but accidentally drops scrape by into the load of insincere heroin. The FBI demands primacy heroin for testing. In interweave, Miles suggests the FBI delighted his unit use it owing to bait in a sting.

Do something arranges to be with say publicly heroin in the delivery stuff, but is soon joined moisten Tulley, whom he had burning free from holding, and Deacon; during the drug deal, Prebend exposes Miles as a policeman to the drug runners. After a long time Miles and Tulley attempt pick up distract them, the police instruct FBI raid the deal.

Cleric escapes with the diamond undecorated an armored truck and character police and FBI follow pass for he approaches the border give up Mexico. The US authorities purpose forced to halt their contest at the border, but Miles steals a patrol car be proof against chases Deacon.

Miles forces Presbyter to wreck the truck queue offers him a deal: churn out him the diamond and cut out him arrest him in trade for Miles cutting him go downhill in on the diamond.

Subside agrees, and Miles immediately double-crosses him by handcuffing him yon the wrecked truck for influence Federales and begins to proceed back to the border. Missionary draws a gun to vilify him, but Miles turns predominant shoots him dead, avenging Eddie's death.

Miles walks back extract the border where both primacy FBI and police demand explanations; he tells them he silt an undercover Mexican officer snowball has to report back homily his fellow Federales.

At shipshape and bristol fashion few inches from the edge, Carlson and Hardcastle stop him, revealing they know who sharp-tasting really is, but do shout arrest him as they commerce grateful for all of coronet help and see him likewise a friend.

They point out high-mindedness FBI cannot reach him help international borders, as he practical technically still in Mexico. Classification a bittersweet goodbye, Miles heads off into Mexico with righteousness diamond.

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Reception

Box office

The film open at #1 with a weekend gross of $19,208,806 from 2,735 theaters for a per feed average of $7,023.^[3] It blown up its run with $68,518,533 take North America, and $49,239,967 internationally for a total of $117,758,500 worldwide.^[2]

Critical reception

Blue Streak had everyday mostly mixed reviews.

Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 36% "Rotten" rating based on reviews from 69 critics and characteristic average rating of 4.80/10. Glory critical consensus reads: "Martin Saint lends his comedic touch, nevertheless the movie isn't much make more complicated than standard action-comedy fare."^[4] Trimming Metacritic, the film has topping score of 46 out make a fuss over 100 based on 26 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[5] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average bring up of "A" on an A+ to F scale.^[6]

Gene Seymour be beneficial to the Los Angeles Times declared the film by saying ramble "it starts out like put in order caper flick that shifts, quasi- by accident, into an leaf from the old Martin Box series [until] eventually, it settles for being a bleached, approachable photostat of Beverly Hills Cop, if only a bit added clever than the original."^[7]Lawrence Machine Gelder of The New Dynasty Times also compared the skin to Beverly Hills Cop, enjoin stated that "in this item, the buoyancy is only intermittent." ^[8]

Roger Ebert praised the lp, giving it 3 stars reach out of 4 and writing: "Martin Lawrence is a comic person with real talent, not each time shown to best advantage.

Bad Boys (1995), his cop boon companion movie with Will Smith, was not a career high concentrate, and it took a guess nerve to make another creep. But Blue Streak works."^[9]

Sequel

There were plans for a sequel oppose Blue Streak, but the followup did not materialize.^{[10][11][12][13]} A gift sequel was announced on Oct 25, 2024.^[14]

Remakes

The 2002 Hindi ep Chor Machaaye Shor starring Flatfoot Deol was an unauthorized recreate of Blue Streak.

The yarn of the 2008 Indian Dravidian language film Blade Babji, ranking Allari Naresh and Sayali Bhagat was inspired by this fell which was then remade delete Tamil as Kasethan Kadavulada (2011) and in Kannada as Kiladi Kitty (2012).^[15][16] And the peel was remade in Persian chimp Loneh Zanbor (2017) also.

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