A THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE
A film review by Chuck Dowling
Copyright 1997 Chuck Dowling
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996) NO STARS out of ***** - C:Martin Lawrence, Lynn Whitfield, Bobby Brown, Della Reese, Roger E. Mosley.
Martin Lawrence stars in, wrote, produced, directed, and supervised the music of this absolutely dreadful "movie" about what might be one of the most unlikable main characters in movie history.
Lawrence plays a "ladies man" who has dedicated his life to the pursuit of women, just so he can have sex with them once and then dump them. Immediately, NO ONE should care what happens to this man. He soon meets his match (Whitfield), who leads him on for days and then decides to take revenge when she realizes she's been used and lied to. Immediately, EVERYONE should be rooting for this woman. However, the film is written so that Lawrence is the good guy in the situation, and Whitfield is just a crazy psycho.
Pauly Shore is a brilliant comedian compared to Lawrence, and I absolutely HATE Pauly Shore. Also, like Adam Sandler in "Billy Madison", not once in the film can Lawrence say a line of dialogue normally. At least one word in each sentence has to be exaggerated for no reason whatsoever and after about five minutes it couldn't be more irritating. "A Thin Line Between Love and Hate" is easily one of the worst films of the year and most definately one of the worst "comedies" of all time. I think that being murdered would be funnier than this movie.
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