Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

shabrianna One of the best movies ever. So many great stars in this movie,all together for one time. This is an epic FKN CLASSIC film. They don't make em like this anymore. Well maybe some Kevin Hart and Martin Lawrence... Yes! Deep movie about real true life personal relationship. This movie is real. Not many people in REAL LIFE get to experience the beauty of the friendship and bond displayed in this film. But it is possible. It is real. Don't give up on people.

mail-873-825928 This was the pinnacle of Eddie Murphy's career. Between his raunchy stand-up and his nonsensical family popcorn fluff came this gem of a movie. While the movie has some yucks to it, its not a beginning to end laugh-out-loud fall-from-your-seat spit- your-soda-out type of funny. Rather, it is a lighthearted take on some serious subject matter. Wrongful imprisonment, racial injustice in the south, crime and punishment, the point of pointlessness of life itself. Murphy's performance as a two bit hustler is right on the money, equal parts funny and smarmy. Lawrence too, deliver's an uncharacteristically fine performance as his frustrated counterpart. A suitable watch with or without popcorn, a good family movie, be ready to laugh and cry for this altogether unexpected opus.

david-sarkies I guess one could say that this is a comical and Negro version of The Shawshank Redemption. The plot runs almost identical - they are innocent but are sentenced to spend the rest of their life in prison. The truth of their innocence later comes out but it is to late, and nobody ever hears because the only people who know land up dead. In the end, though some elaborate plan, they escape.There is a difference in the themes though. The Shawshank Redemption is subtly a horror movie in which the horror of spending forever in one place, with the glimpse of hope, is portrayed. In this movie there is hope, but it is in crazy plans, and it is relationships that are the focus, and also it is a comedy as opposed to a horror. Most people don't see the Shawshank Redemption as a horror, but a horror this is not, rather it is a comedy.There is little that I can say about this movie except that it runs like a typical Eddie Murphy movie. Eddie plays his typical fast talking, con-man character who always has another scheme to make him rich, and the scheme generally does not work. Martin Lawrence plays the straight laced character who sees everything Murphy does is too risky and tries, unsuccessfully, to talk him out of it. They are, and end up being, the odd couple - two friends who can't really get along.This was a cool movie, and though it is slow at places, when the laughs come, they come as one would expect Eddie Murphy to deliver them. I guess the best was the cornbread gag, and later the drug smuggling gag. They also have out takes at the end (somebody seems to have been copying Jackie Chan) and there is a nice surprise with this one.

tieman64 "Life" is one of Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence's better movies, a funny and at times poignant comedy about two small time crooks who are wrongfully convicted of murder and given a life sentence at a South Mississippi prison. Without seeming pretentious, the film dips into various social, even contemporary issues, dealing comically with police perjury, corrupt/disinterested judicial systems, incompetent defence lawyers, institutionalized racism, a legal system which leaves defendants hanging, the sanctioning and covering up of injustices, shattered dreams and an underclass who are oppressed by a criminal justice system for the system's own social/political benefit. Mostly, though, the film's an excuse for Lawrence and Murphy to drop some F bombs. To date it's Murphy's last R rated movie.With moments of overbearing sentimentality the films at times seems to pander to the "Shawshank Redemption" crowd, but much foul mouthed humour, wisecracks and buddy banter help offset this.8/10 – With "Bowfinger" and "Life", 1999 was perhaps Murphy's last respectable year as a comedian. Worth one viewing.