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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled, French, Dubbed & Subtitled
When Martin Lawrence (Bad Boys) and Steve Zahn (Daddy Day Care) team up as security guards, no one's safe! LAPD reject and major troublemaker Earl (Lawrence) got L.A. cop Hank (Zahn) kicked off the force for brutality. Now, these two guys who can't stand each other, are stuck working together as lowly security guards. And they're playing cops to bring down a smuggling ring if they can stay alive and stay one step ahead of the real cops. Co-starring Eric Roberts (The Specialist), National Security will take you on a wild ride with the most unlikely heroes ever to wear a badge!
"Wild comic brilliance!" David Sheehan, CBS
Editor's Note
Martin Lawrence stars in this action comedy directed by Dennis Dugan (HAPPY GILMORE). The film concerns an unlikely partnership that forms between two L.A.P.D. rejects. Hank (Steve Zahn) is a straightlaced L.A.P.D. officer who is fired after supposedly brutalizing an innocent black man. It turns out the "victim," Earl Montgomery (Lawrence), is actually just an angry citizen who is allergic to bee stings. Frustrated after being dismissed from the L.A.P.D. academy due to his bad temper, Earl seizes the opportunity to take out his rage on the hapless Hank. But six months later, when Hank is released from prison, he is determined to avenge the death of his partner. Their paths cross once again when Nash (Eric Roberts), the man who pulled the trigger, robs the warehouse where Earl is employed as a security guard. Angry that Nash refers to him using a racial slur, Earl attaches himself to Hank, who wants nothing to do with the trash-talker. But Earl won't back down, and the bickering pair begin to infiltrate the crooked police department that rejected them months before. NATIONAL SECURITY features yet another standout supporting turn from the always reliable Zahn.
| Features | Music Video: "N.S.E.W" By Disturbing The Peace | | Audio: English 5.1, French Dolby Surround | | Subtitles: English, French | | Director Commentary | | Alternate Ending | | Bonus Trailers | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Deleted Scenes |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | National Security - DVD Review By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 11/7/2008 4:31 PM | |
Directors often copy the techniques of respected filmmakers without raising much ire. But when a director borrows liberally from the volatile filmography of pyrotechnic prince Michael Bay, they’re just asking for trouble. Dennis Dugan’s National Security uses enough slow-mo shots and shimmering cinematography in its first 30 minutes to warrant the comparison. The presence of Bad Boys star Martin Lawrence only helps this waste feel like a Bay retread, the kind of garbage Mr. Pearl Harbor would pass on after deeming it far too stupid even for him....read the full review |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 7/6/2004 |
| Running Time: 91 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2003 | | Catalog ID: 607820 | | UPC: 00043396078208 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | USA Today
"...NATIONAL SECURITY surprises by emphasizing well-oiled interplay between its co-leads....The picture is all Lawrence and Zahn, whose dynamics get something going..." 01/17/2003 p.16DLos Angeles Times
"NATIONAL SECURITY, a funny, raucous action comedy, effectively teams Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn in a film that's both laugh out loud funny and surprisingly subtle..." 01/17/2003 p.C10 L.A. Times 7 of 10
National Security, a funny, raucous action comedy, effectively teams Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn in a film that's both laugh out loud funny and surprisingly subtle. Lawrence's Earl Montgomery is so overzealous as an LAPD cadet that he gets drummed out of the police academy and then plays the race card so shamelessly that Zahn's Hank Rafferty, a dedicated cop, loses his badge and winds up serving six months in prison for police harassment. - Kevin Thomas
San Francisco Examiner 7 of 10
Call it a blast from the past, and you won't be far off the mark. National Security plays like a retro recycling of those guffaws-and-gunfire action-comedies that abounded throughout the '80s in the wake of 48 HRS. ... Fortunately for the audience, a couple of first-rate talents are employed to elevate the second-rate material. After recently stumbling in a few rattletrap star vehicles, Martin Lawrence is back at the top of his game here. Better still, his feisty motor-mouth sass is neatly counterbalanced by the laid-back, slow-burning earnestness of Steve Zahn (Out of Sight, Joy Ride). - Joe Leydon
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