(rated R, 90 mins.) Bounty hunter (Ice Cube) has dreams of owning his own investigation firm in Miami, but for now he’s stuck working for a company that tracks lowlife. Like all Hollywood bounty hunter characters (yeah, sure), he’s set up as a real rapper underdog that’s underpaid, unorthodox and uses the prefix “mother” to the “f” word a lot. When he sets his sites on pursuing a bail jumper (Mike Epps), the two led to an abandoned warehouse, that little did they know is a drop-off point for a major diamond heist operation. Trying a hip-hop version of “48 Hours” the two join forces and work out their own personal issues as well. Issues we don’t even care about. Money can make people do funny things (reads the tagline), but in this case they aren’t very funny. And, the movie is so laden in violence we are never sure if it’s meant to be a comedy or an action flick. Yet money seems to be the only thing holding the otherwise distasteful film together. Ice Cube and Epps try to be charismatic with little chemistry and end up being more annoying than Martin Lawrence meets Chris Tucker.
