Held Up

A pleasant and surprisingly polished fish-out-of-water comedy.

Sweetly mediocre.

This is a cheap-looking lowbrow comedy that likely would have gone straight to home video.

All the principals in this cinematic mess have had moments of glory on stage and screen, and one can only hope they got paid well for participating in this comedic embarrassment.

The talented people in front of the camera fail to bring anything original, interesting, or even funny to this tedious would-be comedy.

It looks like the film is angling for a "Northern Exposure" reunion, except with none of the regional eccentricity.

A real dud, with few laughs, no characterization, little story, a cluster of stereotypes and clichés and just plain nothing for Foxx to do.