OK, so most of Martin Lawrence's movies are pretty worthless. But "Nothing to Lose" is pretty funny. Tim Robbins plays a yuppie who gets fed up with his life and drives into the ghetto. There, he meets up with a hoodlum (Martin Lawrence),and the two proceed to form their own plans...at any cost.

I will admit that this movie has practically no artistic value, just a bunch of silly situations. But it's impossible not to like, as both men have to try and respect each other. And anyway, it's just funny when a rich white guy and black ghetto guy have to team up. Worth seeing, if only once.

I wonder if anyone really does own a statue like that.

Successful ad exec Nick Beam (Tim Robbins) finds what appears to be his wife Ann (Kelly Preston) having sex with his boss Philip Barlow (Michael McKean). He's in shock and then T-Paul (Martin Lawrence) tries to carjack him. Instead, he kidnaps T-Paul drives him out into the Arizona desert. They decide to join up to rob Nick's boss in revenge for the affair.

This boils down to simply whether one finds Martin Lawrence funny or not. He's funny with somebody like Will Smith but I don't find his other stuff that funny. I don't find his antics that funny. I need his partner to be loud enough and big enough to throw it all back at him. His partner should be quick and sharp. Only Will Smith has done it for me.

Nothing to Lose is another one of these mismatched buddy comedies. As one actor is black and the other is white there is also a whiff that it was offered to Eddie Murphy who turned it down before Martin Lawrence was cast.

Robbins plays a man who finds his wife cheating and it spirals into a bad day as he encounters carjacker Lawrence but Robbins has nothing to lose and has a death wish and hence begins a road trip with Lawrence getting involved in hold ups and then they encounter two other more ruthless outlaws who pursues them back to Los Angeles.

The comedy and some of the scenes are rather corny and its also patchy. Lawrence although successful in comedy films has always been a little irritating and Eddie Murphy lite to me. Maybe its the scripts he gets or maybe as an actor he has limited range.

Robbins does dramatic well and also throws himself into the slapstick such as his shoes catching fire. However he also has had misfires in the past when he tried his hand in comedy films, remember Howard: The Duck!

There is some nice music especially the end title song but the film also wants to crow bar a social message as Lawrence is educated, clever, resourceful but unable to get a job and reduced to a life of crime. Not sure that works.