National Security

Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn star in this action-packed comedy by director Dennis Dugan about a hapless ex-cop and an LAPD reject who have to work together as lowly security guards. The two uncover a sophisticated smuggling operation and soon find themselves up to their necks in trouble when they are on the run from the smugglers and the police. Also starring Eric Roberts., Action-comedy/mismatched-buddy flick about two rent-a-cops who stumble onto a major smuggling operation fronted by a criminal mastermind and protected by dirty cops., Martin Lawrence is at his wisecracking best as a motormouthed rent-a-cop teamed with a reluctant partner in this action-packed buddy comedy. The mismatched duo stumble across a major smuggling operation overseen by a master criminal, and when they take their suspicions to the police, they learn that dirty cops are on the hood’s payroll., Earl and Hank are equal on terms when they are considered incompetent policemen. Incompatible as they are, Earl and Hank still do bust a smuggling racket by Nash and gangsters., Men who could not cut it on the real police force take jobs at rent-a-cops and discover a major smuggling operation fronted by a criminal mastermind and protected by dirty cops., Two mismatched security guards are thrown together to bust a smuggling operation., Cop Hank is jailed after a brawl with police academy reject Earl. Leaving prison, Hank finds a job as a security guard, but he’s paired with the one man he doesn’t want to see ever again. Buddy actioner where the ‘heroes’ are more interested in beating each other than the villains., Buddy action comedy in which two LAPD rejects are forced to go on the run when they uncover a sophisticated smuggling operation while working as security guards. With the criminal gang and the LAPD on their heels, the unlikely partners seem more intent on fighting each other than the villains., The mismatched cops variation of the buddy comedy genre gets taken out of mothballs for this farce directed by longtime Adam Sandler collaborator Dennis Dugan. Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn star, respectively, as Earl Montgomery, a loudmouthed police academy reject, and Hank Rafferty, a mild-mannered cop who is disgraced and dismissed from his job. Having met once before on a traffic stop, the two men are less than thrilled to be paired together as security guards. When the two men discover a complex smuggling scheme, however, they put aside their animosity to investigate the criminal scheme. They soon learn that the illegal enterprise involves a mastermind named Nash (Eric Roberts) and a new, virtually indestructible metal that’s worth a fortune. Unable to persuade Hank’s former police department superiors that they’re onto a huge case, the two partners must devise a way to expose the sophisticated scam and bring down Nash on their own. National Security co-stars Colm Feore, Bill Duke, Timothy Busfield, and Wayne Knight., Buddy action thriller in which two LAPD rejects who end up as security guards are forced to go on the run when they uncover a sophisticated smuggling operation, but they seem more intent on fighting each other than the villains., Hank Rafferty is a Los Angeles Police Department officer who finds himself out of a job after he becomes involved in a violent altercation with police academy flunk-out Earl Montgomery, escalating into a media event which brings the LAPD a wealth of bad publicity.