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NUMBERS
Box Office: $37,904,545
VHS Rentals: $12,640,000
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CONSENSUS
Showtime starts out as a promising satire of the buddy cop genre. Unfortunately, it ends up becoming the type of movies it is satirizing.
CAST & CREW
Robert De Niro, Eddie Murphy, Rene Russo
Directed by Tom Dey
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SYNOPSIS
No-nonsense LAPD detective Mitch Preston (ROBERT DE NIRO) is a man of few words and even less style. All he asks is that he be left alone to do his job. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, action violence, language, and some drug content
RUNTIME
1 hour, 32 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Mar 15, 2002
Video: Aug 13, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Warner Bros.
GENRE
Action/Adventure, Comedies, Action, Buddies, Cops, Los Angeles, California
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Showtime Site
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 "The movie is never less than watchable and consistently entertaining, but the need to push gags too far keeps tripping it up."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"Chalk it up to my adoration for both De Niro and Murphy, but I had a pretty good time with this movie - despite its myriad flaws."
-- Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM
 "Even the finest chef can’t make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog, and Robert De Niro can’t make this movie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comedy."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"Makes a joke out of car chases for an hour and then gives us half an hour of car chases."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"Not that any of us should be complaining when a film clocks in around 90 minutes these days, but the plotting here leaves a lot to be desired."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Director Tom Dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut Shanghai Noon, but Showtime's uninspired send-up of TV cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks."
-- Michael Tunison, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"Showtime is by no means great cinema, but it does succeed in taking your mind off terrorism, global warming, taxes, and impending old age for about 95 minutes."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"The subject could have been the focus of sharp satire, but here it's
treated as bland sitcom fare instead...Tepid, stale and endlessly
predictable."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"There's surely something wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits."
-- Neil Smith, BBCI FILMS
"Shatner is probably the funniest person in the film, which gives you an idea just how bad it was."
-- Robert Roten, LARAMIE MOVIE SCOPE
"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."
-- Audrey Rock-Richardson, TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN (UTAH)
"This strenuously unfunny Showtime deserves the hook."
-- Mark Ramsey, MOVIEJUICE!
"Showtime is closer to Slowtime."
-- John J. Puccio, DVDTOWN.COM
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"É uma pena que, mais tarde, o próprio filme abandone o tom de paródia e passe a utilizar os mesmos clichês que havia satirizado."
-- Pablo Villaca, CINEMA EM CENA
"It is really quite ironic then that the one guy putting out consistently good comedy is Hollywood's most serious actor."
-- Joshua Tyler, FILMCRITIC.COM
"One of those films that started with a great premise and then just fell apart."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"... has virtually no script at all ..."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"Neither the funniest film that Eddie Murphy nor Robert De Niro has ever made, Showtime is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while. Before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cop comedy it set out to lampoon, anyway."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"One funny popcorn flick."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"[N]o matter how much good will the actors generate, Showtime eventually folds under its own thinness."
-- Rene Rodriguez, MIAMI HERALD
"It asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"...pitiful, slapdash disaster. A DOA dud from frame one."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
"It's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the feet with cop flick cliches like an oily arms dealer, squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain."
-- Jackie Potts, CITYSEARCH
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ROTTEN 14%
Avg. Rating: 4.4/10 |
"Showtime's starry cast could be both an asset and a detriment. Those who trek to the 'plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves. But ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as Mr. De Niro."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"90 punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay, screeching-metal smashups, and flaccid odd-couple sniping."
-- Jessica Winter, VILLAGE VOICE
"De Niro looks bored, Murphy recycles Murphy, and you mentally add Showtime to the pile of Hollywood dreck that represents nothing more than the art of the deal."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"Showtime is a fine-looking film with a bouncy score and a clutch of lively songs for deft punctuation."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Showtime isn't particularly assaultive, but it can still make you feel that you never want to see another car chase, explosion or gunfight again."
-- Charles Taylor, SALON.COM
"It's getting harder and harder to ignore the fact that Hollywood isn't laughing with us, folks. It's laughing at us."
-- Paul Tatara, CNN
"Between them, De Niro and Murphy make Showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"A small fortune in salaries and stunt cars might have been saved if the director, Tom Dey, had spliced together bits and pieces of Midnight Run and 48 Hours (and, for that matter, Shrek)."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"[P]artnering Murphy with Robert De Niro for the TV-cops comedy Showtime would seem to be surefire casting. The catch is that they're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders."
-- Tom Russo, BOSTON GLOBE
"It's really yet another anemic and formulaic Lethal Weapon-derived buddy-cop movie, trying to pass off its lack of imagination as hip knowingness."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
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"A grating, emaciated flick."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Showtime" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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