National Security (film)

National Security is a 2003 American film about two disgraced former police officers working as security guards are mismatched when thrown together to bust a smuggling operation tracking a criminal manufacturing ring involving an extremely durable rare metal being welded into beer kegs.
 * Directed by Dennis Dugan and written by Jay Scherick and David Ronn.

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Hank Rafferty

 * I had a partner! I would have taken a bullet for him! You I'm having a hard time not shooting!
 * I know baby. But I promise you. My life is already pretty much figured out.
 * [A tall woman is holding Earl up with one hand] Okay, put him down. [Woman looks at him quizzically] In a minute or, two. Don't hurry.

Earl

 * [Recurring line] What the problem is?
 * Your partner got killed. You lost your job. You went to jail. Your girlfriend walked. You got a job as a security guard at a hundred and eighty-two dollars a week. You know what you are, Hank? You're a black man.
 * [After firing off two shots an a senior woman's vehicle, making it skid to a halt] Ma'am, you may now, reprocure, your vehicle. [The vehicle instantly explodes]
 * [Upon seeing Washington shows up with a hit squad] He Must've Grown Up In A White Neighbourhood [On seeing his being held at gunpoint] Oh, thank you Jesus!

Dialogue

 * [Earl is trying to reach for the keys in his car and Hank is walking up to him]
 * Hank: Need some help?
 * Earl: Are you asking me if I need some help or am I stealing this car?
 * Hank: Are you stealing this car?
 * Earl: Does it look like I'm stealing this damn car?
 * Hank: A little bit.
 * Earl: Why, 'cause I'm black? If you saw a white guy doing this you'd give him a reward.
 * Hank: Let me see your license.
 * Earl: I ain't showin' you a damn thing! This is my car and I didn't do anything wrong. You owe me an apology.
 * Hank: You're in dangerous grounds here, bub, I'd be careful what comes out of your mouth next!
 * Earl: Oh, you want to hear what comes out of my mouth next? You're... a... fucking... pig!


 * Hank: Do you actually believe the crap that comes out of your mouth?
 * Earl: I'm not really sure until I'm finished talkin'.


 * Hank: This is a beer keg. It doesn't make any sense.
 * Earl: It makes sense when you put together the pieces.
 * Hank: What pieces?
 * Earl: It's obvious. The CIA, they're smuggling alcohol into the inner city in an effort to further subjugate the black man.


 * Earl: This isn't the first time I was arrested for DWB.
 * Detective Frank McDuff: DWB?
 * Earl: Driving While Black.


 * Hank: [Annoyed at Earl] You got something in your teeth.
 * Earl: [Opens mouth] Where, here or here? [Hank punches Earl in the mouth]


 * Hank: [Flashing police badge] Get out of the damn car!
 * Woman motorist: [Slapping Hank] Didn't your mama teach you any manners? The least you could do is ask me nice!


 * Nash: I thought I shot you. You must be one tough monkey.
 * Earl: [Laughs] You and the monkey jokes, huh? Didn't your momma teach you any manners while you were humpin' her?


 * Earl Montgomery: [After narrowly being stung by a bee] Is it gone? Everything's okay?
 * Denise: [Upon discovering he let Hank go to prison for a bogus race crime] Not from you! [Punches him in the mouth]
 * Earl Montgomery: [Reeling from being smacked in the jaw] Did she have to hit me that hard''?


 * Hank: Do you know how to hot wire a car?
 * Earl: what, you think because i'm black I can hot wire a car
 * Hank: Well can you?
 * Earl: Yeah! but not because I'm Black

Cast

 * Martin Lawrence as Earl Montgomery
 * Steve Zahn as Hank Rafferty
 * Colm Feore as Detective Frank McDuff
 * Bill Duke as Lieutenant Washington
 * Eric Roberts as Nash
 * Timothy Busfield as Charlie Reed
 * Robinne Lee as Denise
 * Matt McCoy as Robert Barton
 * Brett Cullen as Heston
 * Cleo King as Woman in Car
 * Gerry Del Sol as Booking Clerk
 * Ken Lerner as Hank's Lawyer
 * Mari Morrow as Lola

Taglines

 * This January, a buddy comedy without the buddies.