Dorathen Better Late Then Never

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Randy Coates Held Up is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. After watching it, I've decided that Jamie Fox needs to return the Oscar he won. This movie is so bad, it erases everything good he's ever done.It is not at all funny. Jamie Fox goes to buy a car in Arizona with his fiancée and calls it their "vacation". And if that didn't get her mad, imagine how mad she got when she realized he paid $18,000 for it instead of the $5,000 he said it cost! Apparently he though she was a moron who would never figure out all their house money was used. So she leaves. Hilarity ensues as he tells her he doesn't need her anyway, then chases after the cowboy-filled pickup truck she's getting a lift in to tell her to come back! You'll catch your breath from all the laughing right around the time he gets some hilarious advice from a gas station hillbilly about how to treat a woman by buying her flowers for no reason, etc. He'd go after her and catch her at the airport but - get ready to laugh some more - he locked his keys in his car! HAHAHAHA! Then he pays some kid to get it unlocked, but when the kid unlocks it... he STEALS it! HAHAHAHAHHA! He calls the police but they're all at the small town little league game (did I mention the part where Jamie Fox's fiancée has bad diarrhea so he takes her to a porta-john, and his car alarm goes off, RUINING the home town's chances to score with bases loaded? No? Well it was hilarious too!) Anyway, he's stuck there, and before the only deputy on duty (Jake Busey in no doubt the proudest acting role he's ever been given $100 to perform) can show up, boneheaded Mexican criminals rob the place! It's SO funny because the one guy is saying "don't use our names" but the OTHER guy keeps saying their names! He's so stupid, it's hilarious! Did I mention the Sip and Zip/Gas Station guy has no quarters? Man, what kind of gas station has no change? Luckily the stupid hip-hop-wannabe country kid who hangs out in the gas station playing Atari Joust has lots of quarters and thinks Jamie Fox is his hero, Puff Daddy, because stupid rednecks like him can't tell black people apart! HAHA! That's so crazy! And there's two people from Northern Exposure in the show, but that's not so funny.When Deputy Jake Busey shows up to fill out the stolen car report, the poop hits the fan and a hilarious stand-off ensues. Jamie Fox is so scared he yells funny things and puts his legs up on the store's door handles for some reason! That was really funny. A lady banged her shoe on the counter and he thought it was a gun so he grabs the kid and screams "Not you you're too young, are you bleeding?" That was really funny because he looked like a panicky fool, and everybody else knew that nobody was shooting a gun.Did I mention something to do with a mysterious crate the criminals were after? Yeah, that would be the "plot" I guess, but it was pretty pointless, and not quite as HILARIOUS as the rest of the movie (oh hey something else, his new car's radio? It's an old fashioned 8-TRACK PLAYER! LOLOLOL ROFL OMG!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!! That's hilarious!) Then he goes to the airport and they get back together, I think, not sure though, couldn't watch any more of it because I have knives in my kitchen and would have had to kill myself.Oh except for the scene where Jamie Fox gets a cut on his cheek, then starts to cry like a woman! That was SOOOOO FUNNY! Because he keeps trying to act like this tough guy, but then he's crying and screaming! HAHAHHAAH! Oh man! HAHHAHAHAHHAH!!!!!Oh and the part where the police report on the news that Jamie Fox is actually boxing celebrity Mike Tyson, because they are also rednecks who can't tell black people apart! HAHAHHAHAH!!!! I could go on and on and on and on and on with all the hilarious and original jokes they had in this movie that would just make you laugh out loud and roll on the floor, holding your stomach. You should know that if you watch this movie your stomach will hurt for weeks because of all of the laughing you will definitely do.Like the part where they try to cut the power in the station, but actually they cut the power to everyone else in town first. Can't these crazy rednecks do anything right? HAHAHAHAHA!!!!Anyway, avoid this movie, it sucks poop.

egypt24 This movie is a comedy but not for chunk eaters. It tells a typical story of a gang band robbery by a group of Hispanic's in a deserted land store somewhere before the borders with Mexico.At the beginning of the move the Hispanic's kidnap an African-American, some weirdos and the store owner. The local authorities are totally incapable of managing the situation (hostage) and the funny thing is that, when the local sheriff calls for help, help cant find its way to the small deserted village where the story unfolds. This is to show how central governments neglect near border or small cities in USA. Many other examples of USA government, social and racial mockery through the movie, always funny. I didn't like the end. It was so typical that it didn't fit to a movie like this one, a sort of "political" slapstick comedy.

george.schmidt HELD UP (2000) *1/2 Jamie Foxx, Nia Long, Barry Corbin, John Cullum, Jake Busey, Michael Shamus Wiles, Sarah Paulson, Eduardo Yanez, Julie Hagerty. (Dir: Steve Rash) Jamie Foxx is a definite up and coming star in the making.Witness his eponymous WB tv series, his stint on the ensemble Fox hit, 'In Living Color' and last year's dramatic acting debut in Oliver Stone's bone-crunching look at pro football as a cocksure, divaesque quarterback in 'Any Given Sunday.' That's what makes it all the more difficult to figure out why he squandered his naturally given gift in this lame fish-out-of-water comedy.Foxx stars as a put-upon guy named Mike who's traveling cross country with his sexy girlfriend Rae (the luscious Long, equally wasted) only to wind up in a podunk backwater Arizona desert town, North Butte. After a quarrel due to Rae learning Mike has spent nearly every dime into the vintage Stuedebaker they're tooling around in leads a seriously angry Rae to leave Mike to his own resources as she bums a ride in a pick-up of good ol' boys to head back to the local airport for the first plane back home to Chicago.Chagrined Mike winds up facing a firecracker string of bad luck from getting his classic ride carjacked, to being left with fifty bucks and finally being held up in the convenience store he's been dumped at. There is the meat of the action – more or less – as Mike uses his sarcastic tone to great effect in negotiating with the dim novice robber Rodrigo (Yanez) who can't command two thoughts at the same time. Among the hostages include a local gal named Mary (Paulson, an uncanny Kelly Preston look-alike), a leather capped biker (Wiles) so engrossed in his magazine reading he barely notices the crime except to pontificate on every germaine item that pops into conversation a la Cliff Clavin of 'Cheers', and the world-weary store owner Jack (Cullum, late of the cult tv series 'Northern Exposure'), who has an answer for everything as well.To gum up the works is the local sheriff, Pembry (Corbin, also from 'Exposure'), who has an ax to grind with Mike for ruining his little league baseball game which is still in progress as he tries to command his inept squad of Barney Fifes including his by the book deputy Beaumont (Busey, son of Gary) who provides the official rules of negotiation by the FBI from its cellophaned shrink wrapping.Foxx does the best with the dog-eared hoary plot such as it is and does his own riff on this ill-advised comedy attempt of 'Dog Day Afternoon' with not much at risk and a pedestrian pace by the director Steve Rash. The one running gag of a kid in the store thinking Mike is Puff Daddy is the atypical type of humor strung out for a laugh.The only thing that's held up is the audience's patience and the tight leash the film has on its star's true talent.

MichaelOates "Held Up" is one of the those feel good comedic movies that doesn't require a whole lot of thought. "Held Up" is an enjoyable comedy that played like a comedy of errors. Jamie Foxx is a comedian that almost matches the comedic level of someone like Chris Rock. This was the perfect match for Foxx and the movie because I don't think "Held Up" could have been made without him. I enjoyed how Foxx mixed the comedy with scenes of drama. It gave a nice balance to a light-hearted and good natured film. Everyone played a comedic part in this film from Barry Corbin to Nia Long and Jake Busey. "Held Up" is just good fun.I would disagree with those who call "Held Up" the worst movie made.