“Blue Streak”, it starts, it finishes, you move on with your life. I remember much better police comedies such as “Beverly Hills Cop” (well the first one). It attempts to dish out both humour and action but does neither successfully, it just does them.

In “Blue Streak”, Martin Lawrence (“Bad Boys”, “Big Momma’s House”) stars as a jewel thief named Miles Logan, who must pretend to be a policemen if he is to obtain a precious diamond he hid away years earlier during a failed heist. It’s a pretty funny set-up but the movie never really takes advantage of it and we get left with something real mediocre.

Martin Lawrence is not funny enough to make me laugh and he’s not dynamic enough to be an action star. He spends a lot of time making strange grunting-style noises and it’s not funny. He’s definitely not the worst comedian but he pales in comparison to guys such as Eddie Murphy in “Beverly Hills Cop”. Luke Wilson (“Idiocracy”) stars as his partner and he’s actually funnier than Lawrence (he actually reminds me a lot of Billy from “Beverly Hills Cop”). The other characters are nothing to write home about, particularly the villains.

“Blue Streak” does everything casually; the humour is done casually, the action is done casually and the character development is done casually. What I mean no real effort goes into any of it; it’s done with the bare minimum for one to claim that they’ve done it. Movies such as “Supercop”, “Lethal Weapon” and of course “Beverly Hills Cop” manage to do both humour and action well so why is this film so laid back, unsure of what to do, when so many previous movies have done the framework for one to easily mimic. “Blue Streak” is done with so little desire to do anything that it’s hard to have feelings for it either way.