Bulletproof

You judge a movie by its own standards, right? Bulletproof, starring Damon Wayans and Adam Sandler, is rambunctious, crude, ridiculous, violent and -- incidentally -- very funny. Read full review

The homoerotic subtext of the whole buddy movie oeuvre has never received quite the explicit lampooning it gets in this quirky, crash-and-burn action-comedy. [6 Sept 1996, p.8]

That it works as well as it does is because the stars, Damon Wayans and Adam Sandler, have an easy rapport and some good one-liners, and the film is short and manic. Read full review

Bulletproof is a raunchy exercise in macho posturing -- but thanks to a layer of satire, the new action comedy at Bay Area theaters provides a few zingers of lowbrow entertainment. Read full review

Directed by Ernest Dickerson, the film looks fine, as one might expect, but isn't particularly funny and often makes no sense. Read full review

Bulletproof, directed by Ernest Dickerson from a screenplay by Joe Gayton and Lewis Colick, is really a screwball love story disguised as a macho action film. Read full review

The whole sorry business is incontrovertible proof that Hollywood learned all the wrong lessons from 48 HRS.: Bring back Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy, please! Read full review

A fitfully funny retread of "48 Hours," "Fled" and dozens of others. Read full review

The criminal activity onscreen in “Bulletproof” is penny ante compared with the felonious slaughter of story, character and logic exacted by the pic’s filmmakers. Read full review

Bulletproof is a lobotomized rehash of Midnight Run. [11 Sept 1996, p.4D]

Bulletproof is both offensive and depressing, from its sociopathic mix of graphic violence and slapstick to its severe career blighting of the once-formidable Ernest Dickerson. [6 Sept 1996, p.3D]

The two guys are potentially amusing but the screenplay is so naked in its manipulation of emotion that it feels infantile. Read full review

Universal should have marketed this formulaic drivel as the taboo love story it really is, and then watched its stars run for cover. Read full review

Does the testosterone fly? Not as fast as the potty jokes. Ditto the homophobe jokes zing! zing! Read full review

Dickerson's newest film is an embarrassment of near epic proportions. Read full review

It's too easy to say that only fans of Adam Sandler and Damon Wayans should consider seeing Bulletproof, since it would be excruciating to anyone else. It's also unfair, because those fans would be better served to respectively watch "Happy Gilmore" or "The Last Boy Scout" another time than suffer through this latest - and possibly all-time worst - entry in the buddy-action-comedy genre. [7 Sept 1996, p.2B]