All About the Benjamins
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| All About the Benjamins | |
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Cube Vision Productions | |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
Release date |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15 million |
| Box office | $26 million[1] |
All About the Benjamins is a 2002 American
Plot
Tyson Bucum is a bounty hunter trying to acquire the funds to start a private investigation firm, and Reggie is a small-time hustler and bail skipper previously apprehended by Bucum three times. Reggie lives with Gina, his trusting girlfriend. One day, Reggie buys a lottery ticket and wins $60 million. However, he spots diamond thieves running away, and he hides in their van. Reggie escapes the thieves but runs into Bucum. The two of them cannot stand each other, but they team up to retrieve Reggie's wallet with the lottery ticket, and to catch the diamond thieves and recover the diamonds.
Cast
- Ice Cube as Tyson Bucum, a bounty hunter who has a hatred for his job due to low-budget payment and teams up with Reggie, eventually befriending him.
- Mike Epps as Reggie Wright, a con artist who teams with Bucum.
- Eva Mendes as Gina, Reggie's girlfriend.
- Tommy Flanagan as Robert Williamson, the main antagonist, a speed boat dealership owner trying to get his hands on $20 million in diamonds.
- Carmen Chaplin as Ursula, a diamond thief working for Williamson and also his lover.
- Valarie Rae Miller as Pam, Bucum's girlfriend who is also his co-worker.
- Roger Guenveur Smith as Julian Ramose, a diamond thief working for Williamson.
- Anthony Michael Hall as "Lil J", a con artist and drug dealer who is arrested by Bucum earlier in the film.
- Anthony Giaimo as Martinez, Bucum's boss.
- Robert MacBeth as Mr. Dwight Sheldon, a local store owner who shows great annoyance of Reggie.
- Bob Carter as Mr. Barkley, a wealthy man who has a batch of diamonds, wanted by Williamson.
- Bow Wow as Kelly (Lil Bow Wow), a neighbor of Reggie.
- Barbara Barron as Mrs. Barkley, the wife of Mr. Barkley.
Reception
All About the Benjamins received generally mixed reviews from critics. On the
Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine wrote that: "[T]he film simultaneously embraces and rejects the dog-whistle vaudeville of Rush Hour and the testosterone overload of Bad Boys, and the result is an absurd, sometimes elegant look at cultural emancipation via the buck."[4] Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum gave the movie an overall C− grade, writing that: "I don't know if Cube is melting as he warms up his persona to be all things to all audiences — tough but tender, rap-real but corporate-ready — or if Epps' off-spin, discount-Tucker prattle is slowing Cube's game. But something puddles to nothing in this relentless Miami sun."[5] Russell Smith of The Austin Chronicle criticized the film for being "another slice off the increasingly stale buddy-pic loaf" that came after 48 Hrs., highlighting the "random disconnectedness" of the action scenes as "downright insulting" and the nasty violence for coming across as "benignly cartoonish silliness".[6]
Soundtrack
A soundtrack containing
References
- ^ "All About the Benjamins (2002)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
- ^ "All About the Benjamins". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved February 25, 2024.
- Fandom, Inc.Retrieved November 18, 2021.
- ^ Gonzalez, Ed (February 27, 2002). "Review: All About the Benjamins". Slant Magazine. Archived from the original on November 18, 2021. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
- ^ Schwarzbaum, Lisa (March 6, 2002). "All About the Benjamins". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on October 4, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
- ^ Smith, Russell (March 15, 2002). "All About the Benjamins - Movie Review". The Austin Chronicle. Archived from the original on November 18, 2021. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
