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Genres:
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Action /
Comedy /
Crime /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Kevin Bray
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Actors:
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Antoni Corone,
Carmen Chaplin,
Valarie Rae Miller,
Gino Salvano,
Tony Ward,
Anthony Giaimo,
Dominic Chianese Jr.,
Bob Carter,
Ice Cube,
Mike Epps,
Tommy Flanagan,
Eva Mendes,
Jeff Chase,
Roger Guenveur Smith,
Anthony Michael Hall
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Duration:
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98 min.
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Rating:
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(5.3/10)109.5
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Plot Summary:
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Bounty hunter Bucum Jackson (Ice Cube) teams with small-time con artist Reggie Wright (Mike Epps) in an attempt to manage a missing stash of diamonds and a pool ticket importance millions.
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All About the Benjamins
Applying the scruffy, slacker mood of Friday to a caper plot that seems downloaded from Elmore Leonard's out basket seems presumptuous at best. Yet All About the Benjamins shows this blend can go down more smoothly than one would have imagined. Granted, its dark-edged crime-caper plot is so formulaic it seems almost ritualized. Yet Ice Cube and Mike Epps enact their standard odd-couple tango with such ease and brio, you'd think they'd never seen such movies before. A lot of generic thrillers could profit from their easy-does-it byplay.
Scowling as implacably as ever, Ice Cube is Bucum (as in ''book 'em'') Jackson, a skip tracer for a lowlife Miami bail-bonds outfit, whose ruthless efficiency in rounding up parole violators and other lowlifes goes unappreciated b...
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