National Security Page #5

Synopsis: Earl and Hank have only one thing in common: they're both L.A.P.D. rejects. One just got kicked out, the other can't even get in. After confronting each other on opposite sides of the law during a traffic stop that escalates out of control, these two luckless individuals end up partnered as lowly security guards. Despite being damned to the lowest rung of the law enforcement ladder, Earl and Hank uncover a sophisticated smuggling operation led by Nash and his band of thugs. When Earl and Hank get their hands on some hot property, they go on the run from, first the bad guys, then the L.A.P.D.--led by Lt. Washington and Detective McDuff. What these two unlikely partners do to law enforcement is a crime, but they just might save the day. That is, if they don't kill each other first.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Director(s): Dennis Dugan
Production: Sony Pictures
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
31
Rotten Tomatoes:
11%
PG-13
Year:
2003
88 min
$35,764,982
Website
1,394 Views


- Go!

No! My car!

No, not my car!

Somebody shoot that monkey!

What did you call me?

Let's go, now!

Get them in here!

Go, go, go!

- Get out of my car!

- Because I'm a black man?

This has nothing to do

with you. It's personal!

Damn right it's personal. White boy

back there called me "monkey." Drive!

- Get out, now!

- Look, man.

I been waiting my whole life

for sh*t like this to go down.

If you're gonna shoot me, shoot me.

That's the only way I'm getting out.

They getting away, man!

Come on! Go!

Earl?

Man, this slow-ass,

damn Flintstone car, man.

We might as well be

peddling with our damn feet.

- What's wrong with this piece of junk?

- I don't know.

I was gonna take it for

a regular maintenance...

...but for the past six months

I've been in prison!

You should've got more time.

Pushing me into cars and putting

me in satanic chokeholds.

You were resisting arrest! I was

authorized to use any force...

We could go back and

forth on this all night long, man.

Fortunately, there are courts

to handle this matter.

According to the courts...

...you were assaulting and battering

me like a hillbilly on his wife.

Yo, yo, yo!

Oh, sh*t. This is how I'm

gonna conceal the weapon.

Pull over! Pull over!

Get the van!

- You pull over, buddy!

- No, get the van!

- Drop the gun!

- Get the van!

- Drop it!

- Get the v...

Damn!

If I would've gotten out with

a wallet in my hand...

...l'd have bullets all in my ass!

That's some bullshit, man.

Security guard, huh, Hank?

That's a shame.

- Hey, Washington, how you doing?

- Better than you.

- You okay, man?

- You know how it is, my brother.

Just a little shaken up, that's all.

Let me see if I got this figured out.

You get out of prison,

pissed with your life...

...you decide to pay your buddy Earl

a visit. Things got out of hand...

...shots are fired, police respond just

in time to catch Hank trying to get...

...away with you in his car, probably

holding you at gunpoint. Am I correct?

Amazing. You are very, very good.

Wait a second. This is crazy.

I wasn't out for revenge.

Shut the hell up! Just shut the hell up.

I'm tired of your goddamn lies.

I got a restraining order saying you can't

get within 100 feet of this guy.

So I don't really give a damn what

you have to say. All I need from you...

...is your testimony and his ass

goes back to prison. Tomorrow.

Nothing would make me happier than

to see this man go back to prison.

Good.

For the heartache...

...and the trauma.

One time he took the club

and he switched it around...

...with the handle sticking out

and bop, right there.

Can you see that little cut,

right there? Anyway...

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