The Distinguished Gentleman Critic Reviews

The Distinguished Gentleman is an easy, breezy romp of a movie, a low comedy of highly entertaining order.Read the full review

Murphy's comic brilliance is at the service of the story and he positively shines with a number of diverse and zany impersonations, most enjoyably a Jesse Jackson takeoff.Read the full review

With a refreshing absence of earnestness, the movie mainly spins out many variations on a theme: Easy Street begins and ends on Capitol Hill. [03 Dec 1992]Read the full review

While the result is inevitably middle of the road, it still manages to be the funniest picture Murphy has made in quite some time. [04 Dec 1992]Read the full review

The film is content to remain at the level of the mildly entertaining, with no real surprises and not much sass. [04 Dec 1992]Read the full review

Uneven but occasionally quite funny political satire.Read the full review

The Distinguished Gentleman prefers to give us measured laughs at a leisurely pace, and then it settles for the sellout upbeat ending. Ho hum.Read the full review

All The Distinguished Gentleman has is Eddie Murphy doing his best to be the life of the party. By the end of the movie you wish he would just go to another party.Read the full review

Despite Murphy's campaigning, Gentleman deserves a veto. [04 Dec 1992]Read the full review