What Does He Saying at the End on Blue Streak Mean
| Blue Streak | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Les Mayfield |
| Written by | Michael Berry John Blumenthal Stephen Carpenter |
| Produced by | Neal H. Moritz Toby Jaffe |
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| Cinematography | David Eggby |
| Edited by | Michael Tronick |
| Music by | Edward Shearmur |
| Production | Columbia Pictures |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing |
| Release date |
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| Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $36 million[1] |
| Box office | $117.7 million[2] |
Blue Streak is a 1999 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Les Mayfield. Inspired by the 1965 film The Big Job, the film stars Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Dave Chappelle, Peter Greene, Nicole Ari Parker and William Forsythe. Lawrence plays Miles, a jewel thief who tries to retrieve a diamond he left at a police station, whereupon he disguises himself as a detective and gets paired with a real policeman to investigate burglaries. The film was shot on location in California. The prime shooting spot was Sony Pictures Studios, which is located in Culver City, California.
Blue Streak was released theatrically by Columbia Pictures on September 9, 1999 and opened as the number one movie in North America. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, it went on to gross nearly $120 million at the worldwide box office against a $36 million budget.[2] The film's soundtrack album, featuring a number of popular urban/hip-hop artists, was certified platinum.
Plot [edit]
Jewel thief Miles Logan participates in a $17 million diamond heist in Los Angeles, where one of his accomplices, Deacon, turns on them, killing Eddie, Miles' best friend, before attempting to take the stone from Miles. As the police arrive, Miles hides the diamond in the ducts of a building under construction; Deacon flees and Miles is arrested.
Upon his release from prison two years later, Miles attempts to reunite with his girlfriend, who breaks it off for lying about being a criminal, prompting him to retrieve the diamond. Finding the building where he hid the diamond is now an LAPD police station, he goes inside, discovering the diamond is hidden in the ducts of what is now the Robbery/Homicide detective bureau, which requires a key card to access.
Miles returns disguised as a pizza deliveryman, steals an access card and visits his forger Uncle Lou. The fake badge and transfer papers allow Miles to enter the station, posing as newly-transferred police detective Malone. While trying to access the ducts, he inadvertently foils a prisoner escape and is teamed up with newly-appointed Detective Carlson.
They are sent on a burglary call, where Miles quickly solves it as fraud perpetrated by the owner. On the ride back, they stumble upon an armed robbery being committed by Miles' friend and former getaway driver Tulley. Miles intervenes, arresting him before he's shot, but Tulley demands $50,000 to keep quiet about who Miles really is. He makes another attempt to locate the diamond, but is interrupted by Carlson, who has discovered Miles is not who he claims to be. Convincing Carlson that he is from Internal Affairs, Miles tries to get back to searching for the diamond, but they are sent out on another call. While out, they capture a truckload of heroin. Afterwards, Miles finds the diamond in the evidence locker and finally has it, but accidentally drops it into the load of heroin they seized. The FBI demands the heroin for testing.
A panicked Miles suggests the FBI and his cops unit use the heroin as bait in a sting. He arranges to be with the heroin in the delivery truck, but is soon joined by Tulley (whom he had set free from holding) and Deacon; during the drug deal, Deacon exposes Miles as a cop to the drug runners. While Miles and Tulley attempt to distract them, the police and FBI raid the deal. Deacon escapes with the diamond in an armored truck and the police and FBI follow as he approaches the border to Mexico. The police and FBI are forced to halt their pursuit at the border, but Miles steals a patrol car and chases Deacon. Miles forces him to wreck the truck and offers him a deal: Deacon gives Miles the diamond and allows him to arrest him in exchange for Miles taking him back to the US and cutting him back in on the diamond. He agrees, and Miles immediately double-crosses him by handcuffing him to the wrecked truck for the Federales. Deacon draws a gun to shoot him but Miles turns and shoots him dead, avenging Eddie's death.
Miles walks back to the border where both the FBI and police demand explanations; he tells them he is an undercover Mexican officer and has to report back to his fellow Federales. A few inches over the border, Carlson and Hardcastle stop him, revealing they know who he really is, but do not arrest him as they are grateful for all of his help and see him as a friend. They also say the FBI can't reach him over international borders, as he is a few inches over the border. After they share a bittersweet goodbye, Miles heads off to Mexico with the diamond.
Cast [edit]
- Martin Lawrence as Miles Logan/Detective Malone
- Luke Wilson as Detective Carlson
- Dave Chappelle as Tulley
- Peter Greene as Deacon
- William Forsythe as Detective Hardcastle
- Graham Beckel as Lieutenant Rizzo
- Robert Miranda as Detective Glenfiddish
- Olek Krupa as Jean LaFleur
- Saverio Guerra as Benny
- Richard C. Sarafian as Uncle Lou
- Tamala Jones as Janiece
- Julio Oscar Mechoso as Detective Diaz
- Steve Rankin as FBI Agent Gray
- Carmen Argenziano as Captain Penelli
- John Hawkes as Eddie
- Nicole Ari Parker as Melissa Green
- J. Kenneth Campbell as FBI Section Commander Peterson
- Frank Medrano as Frank
Reception [edit]
Box office [edit]
The film opened at #1 with a weekend gross of $19,208,806 from 2,735 theaters for a per venue average of $7,023.[3] It ended its run with $68,518,533 in North America, and $49,239,967 internationally for a total of $117,758,500 worldwide.[2]
Critical reception [edit]
Blue Streak had received mostly mixed reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 36% "Rotten" rating based on reviews from 69 critics and an average rating of 4.80/10. The critical consensus reads: "Martin Lawrence lends his comedic touch, but the movie isn't much more than standard action-comedy fare."[4] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 46 out of 100 based on 26 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews."[5] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[6]
Gene Seymour of the Los Angeles Times described the film by saying that "it starts out like a caper flick that shifts, almost by accident, into an episode from the old Martin TV series [until] eventually, it settles for being a bleached, cluttered photostat of Beverly Hills Cop, if only a bit more clever than the original."[7] Lawrence Van Gelder of The New York Times also compared the film to Beverly Hills Cop, and stated that "in this instance, the buoyancy is only intermittent." [8]
Roger Ebert praised the film, giving it 3 stars out of 4 and writing: "Martin Lawrence is a comic actor with real talent, not always shown to best advantage. Bad Boys (1995), his cop buddy movie with Will Smith, was not a career high point, and it took a certain nerve to make another one. But Blue Streak works."[9]
Cancelled sequel [edit]
There were plans for a sequel to Blue Streak, but the sequel did not materialize.[10] [11] [12] [13] Instead, its screenplay was reused for the film Bad Company.[ citation needed ]
Remakes [edit]
The storyline of the 2008 Indian Telugu language film Blade Babji, starring Allari Naresh and Sayali Bhagat was inspired by this film which was then remade in Tamil as Kasethan Kadavulada (2011) and in Kannada as Kiladi Kitty (2012). [14] [15]
See also [edit]
- The Big Job, a 1965 movie with a similar plot
References [edit]
- ^ "Blue Streak (1999) - Financial Information".
- ^ a b c Blue Streak at Box Office Mojo
- ^ Natale, Richard (September 20, 1999). "Comedy 'Blue Streak' Is Off and Running at No. 1; Box Office: Costner's 'Game' takes second spot; low-budget 'Beauty' enjoys strong opening weekend". The Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2010-11-04 .
- ^ "Blue Streak (1999)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster.
- ^ "Blue Streak Reviews". Metacritic.
- ^ "CinemaScore". cinemascore.com.
- ^ GENE SEYMOUR (September 17, 1999). "MOVIE REVIEW; Lawrence Gets Behind the Wheel". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2012-11-24 .
- ^ Van Gelder, Lawrence (September 18, 1999). "FILM REVIEW; When Too Much Success Plagues a Diamond Thief". The New York Times . Retrieved 2012-05-29 .
- ^ Roger Ebert. "Blue Streak". Chicago Sun Times . Retrieved 2012-05-29 .
- ^ "Lawrence on a Hot Streak". ABC News. October 20, 2000.
Blue Streak 2 would re-team Lawrence's criminal character with cop Luke Wilson in the time-tested 48 Hours buddy formula.
- ^ Fleming, Michael (October 19, 2000). "Col's $20 mil double dip for Lawrence". Variety.
- ^ Rebecca Ascher-Walsh (February 6, 2001). "Cut It Out. Plus, plans for a Blue Streak sequel". Entertainment Weekly.
Blue Streak screenwriter Steve Carpenter has just handed in a script for the sequel
- ^ Bradford Evans (May 26, 2011). "The Comedy Sequels That Never Happened". Archived from the original on December 1, 2012. Retrieved November 25, 2012.
- ^ "Blade Babji". Sify . Retrieved 2021-08-26 .
- ^ "'Kiladi Kitty' Ready for Release". 2012-06-04. Archived from the original on 2012-06-04. Retrieved 2021-08-26 .
External links [edit]
- Blue Streak at IMDb
- Blue Streak at Rotten Tomatoes
- Blue Streak at Box Office Mojo
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Streak_%28film%29
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