Showtime (2002) Critic Reviews

Would seem to be surefire casting. The catch is that they're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders.Read the full review

The movie's funny in the opening scenes and then forgets why it came to play.Read the full review

De Niro seems to be reacting to nothing so much as the lame movie he's stuck in.Read the full review

From frame one Showtime displays an ingenuity, cleverness and briskness that never flags.Read the full review

The moment Showtime begins to take itself even remotely seriously, it loses whatever edge it might have had -- and that occurs less than 15 minutes into the proceedings. The best time for Showtime is no time.Read the full review

Add Showtime to the pile of Hollywood dreck that represents nothing more than the art of the deal.Read the full review

A disgrace to the talents of Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy, but it's not enough just to say that. It's also a disgrace to the talents of Rene Russo and whoever drove the coffee truck to the set every day.Read the full review

A buddy cop movie that pretends to spoof buddy cop movies along with reality TV shows, Showtime is so lazy and artless that … that … it saps my will to come up with a good quip: Witless in itself, it is the source of witlessness in others.Read the full review

Plays every convention twice, once as parody and once by the book, but the movie, trying to be two things at once, fails at both.Read the full review