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FilmPG-132003

National Security

ActionComedyCrime

Directed by Dennis Dugan

Earl Montgomery, a bombastic police academy reject, and Hank Rafferty, a disgraced, mild-mannered cop, can't seem to escape each other. They met on opposite sides of the law during a routine traffic stop that escalated out of control; now as lowly security guards they're thrown together to bust a smuggling operation. From TMDB

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National Security is a 2003 action comedy crime film, directed by Dennis Dugan, starring Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn and Colm Feore.

  • 48 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
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  • Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.socialBluesky · May 4, 2025

    Trump announces 100% tariffs on foreign films because they are “a National Security threat” and “propaganda.”

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  • Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 26, 2025

    "We are currently clean on OPSEC" is something the smarmy National Security Advisor character in a Mission: Impossible movie says right before Ethan Hunt takes off his rubber face mask disguise and shoots him with a tranquilizer dart

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  • Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2025

    IT IS A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT IF YOU GUYS DONT FUND MY NEXT MOVIE

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  • Sheryl with an S @beachblond52.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2025

    #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited So now FOTUS thinks our film industry is dying and it’s a National Security threat! He must just sit and think about what absurd shit he can throw out to deflect from the nefarious agenda they are really planning. Go see a movie before they are all gone! What next! 🙄

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  • Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2025

    Trump’s irrational purge of our National Security leaders is insane. It’s as if we’re living in a science fiction movie where our own government sabotages us by lowering our own defensive shields.

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  • Boricuabc2 @boricuabc2.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2026

    BREAKING NEWS (PARODY) Todd Blanche has ordered DOJ to launch a full investigation over Mandami administration. Having fun, smiling and laughing while doing a great job is a. NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT, FILM at 11 WITHIN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY

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  • ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    2/ The news follows their arrest this morning by Montenegrin police and the country's National Security Agency, after they entered the country to make a documentary film that sought to portray Montenegro's European integration in a negative (and therefore pro-Russian) light. bsky.app/profile/chri...

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  • Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 25, 2025

    I have my students in my National Security Law class watch The Lives of Others before we cover electronic surveillance/FISA. Fantastic movie

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  • Dag. @3fecta.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2025

    National Security is the justification because watching a Hallmark Christmas movie filled in Vancouver robs us of our precious bodily fluids.

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  • Elliott Lusztig @elliottlusztig.bsky.socialBluesky · May 4, 2025

    also, the attack on the MOVIE INDUSTRY is a NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT so now there are tariffs on all foreign-made movies

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  • The Meme War Veteran @thememewarveteran.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 6, 2025

    With Laura Loomer now appointed to the role of National Security Advisor, the movie Idiocracy is now officially a documentary.

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  • YTSL @ytsl.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2025

    It used to be that I could look forward to meeting up/temporarily reuniting with film fan/academic/etc. friends during the Hong Kong International Film Festival. The last time this was a thing was 2019. Since then, Covid happened; also the National Security Law, film censorship, etc., etc. 😩

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  • The Giant Aquatic Centipede @deaddropholiday.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2025

    I've seen this movie too many times not to know how it ends. "National Security". Roll credits.

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  • Joel Phillip Friedman @joelfriedman.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2025

    I love this: "Vince Vaughn is going overseas to do a movie shoot?!?! This is a NATIONAL SECURITY EMERGENCY!!"

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  • John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2026

    oh the CIA was telling the president there was nothing to worry about? the plane that also had the Secretary of State and National Security Advisor on it? well never mind, I'm sure it's nothing, definitely not gonna get an Oliver Stone movie out of all this

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  • xiao yun @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 12, 2026

    North Korea fires 'several ballistic missiles' into Sea of Japan. > Seoul (AFP) – North Korea on Monday fired multiple ballistic missiles off its east coast, Seoul's military said, after weeks of mounting friction over a landmine explosion along their heavily fortified border. > Since the blast that injured three South Korean soldiers in the Seoul-controlled area of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), both countries have touted the test-firing of upgraded missile technology. > >"Our military…

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  • SharedDreams🦋🫶🏼✌🏼 @shared-dreams.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2025

    WTF?? Trump took to social media to brand foreign film production a “National Security threat.” #FuckTrump

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  • Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 28, 2024

    Okay here's a weird question. There's a 1963 Air Force briefing film called "Space and National Security" that imagines orbital combat. A clip aired in a 2008 Nova ep & @paleofuture.bsky.social wrote about it then. But I can't find the full video. Anyone know where it is? gizmodo.com/space-and-na...

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  • Роберт @mrhyperpcs.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 22, 2026

    I want the man arrested deported assets seized and stripped of his illegal citizenship for breaching US National Security and Election fraud. Fuck him and his movie.

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  • Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2026

    them as prisoners jailed for treason; and media personality Eyal Berkovic, an outspoken Netanyahu critic who is not identified with Israel’s right-wing government, likewise called making the film “an act of treason” and urged National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to “take care of them.” >

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  • Aster Vérité @aster-verite.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 19, 2026

    Sick Golem and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir goes full on Omar Khalifa from the movie "The Jewel of the Nile" You know people are utterly off the deep edge when they mimic movie psychopaths

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  • Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 16, 2026

    Quite possibly the most ridiculous film festival ever - Macao’s three-week “National Security Public Interest Film Festival” (for which they are trying to give tickets away!) www.macaupostdaily.com/news/27960

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  • Ben Griffin @bengriffin06.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 18, 2026

    GEN McCaffrey was kind enough to let me interview him for my forthcoming book, Imagined World Orders: Tom Clancy and US National Security. During the interview he noted there was one movie he loathed from the 90s for its casual portrayal of drug use. His wife, Jill, provided the name; Pulp Fiction.

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  • maendaleo.bsky.social @maendaleo.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 7, 2025

    Trump and everyone in his orbit are all National Security Risks. Plus World Security Risks. It’s a situation like a Marvel comic movie but worse

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  • I’m Jesus🇨🇦 Pin-Up Heartthrob @sweetjesus2000.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2025

    Trump said foreign productions are hurting Hollywood and in general the U.S. film production industry, making it a “National Security threat” A) Wtf? A national security threat? How? B) I thought he hated Hollywood & wanted it to die C) How tf do you tariff a film? vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

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  • DMCMNFIBFFF @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 27, 2026

    FWIW, [wp:Michael Rogers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rogers) Michael S. Rogers (born 1959), director of the National Security Agency Mike Rogers (ice hockey) (born 1954), Canadian hockey player Michael Rogers (actor) (born 1970), Canadian television and film actor ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/078cf5b5-a005-41c5-ae1c-dd3827068cbe.jpeg) **Michael Rogers (publisher) (born 1963), American publisher, fundraiser, gay rights leader, and former blogger** [wc:File:Utopiales…

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  • Leslie Nuss @nussforus.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2026

    I’m so tired of people playing T’s dumbass transactional games. Now he’s playing his “It’s-for-National-Security”-so -you-can’t-stop-me” game. Remember the movie “War Games”? “The only way to win is not to play.” I wish everyone would read “Games People Play,” www.ericberne.com/games-people...

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  • 65yearcitizen @usa24freedom.bsky.socialBluesky · May 10, 2026

    The dementia b movie playing in his head. He is a clear and present danger to all Americans and National Security. That includes you too maga.

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  • Hotznplotzn @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 22, 2026

    [Taiwan probes organised crime links to China's 'transnational repression' as it says says China behind attack on a comedian who mocked Xi](https://www.reuters.com/world/china/taiwan-probes-organised-crime-links-chinas-transnational-repression-2026-10-22/) >... Taiwan National Security Bureau Director-General Tsai ​Ming-yen said the local networks that cooperate in incidents like the comedian attack are mostly criminal ⁠gangs, or private investigation firms linked to organised crime ...…

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  • Hotznplotzn @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 22, 2026

    [Taiwan probes organised crime links to China's 'transnational repression' as it says says China behind attack on a comedian who mocked Xi](https://www.reuters.com/world/china/taiwan-probes-organised-crime-links-chinas-transnational-repression-2026-10-22/) >... Taiwan National Security Bureau Director-General Tsai ​Ming-yen said the local networks that cooperate in incidents like the comedian attack are mostly criminal ⁠gangs, or private investigation firms linked to organised crime ...…

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  • Hotznplotzn @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 22, 2026

    [Taiwan probes organised crime links to China's 'transnational repression' as it says says China behind attack on a comedian who mocked Xi](https://www.reuters.com/world/china/taiwan-probes-organised-crime-links-chinas-transnational-repression-2026-10-22/) >... Taiwan National Security Bureau Director-General Tsai ​Ming-yen said the local networks that cooperate in incidents like the comedian attack are mostly criminal ⁠gangs, or private investigation firms linked to organised crime ...…

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  • SoSnI' Get In Good Trouble ☮️ 🖖 @bluewave1906.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 8, 2026

    After viewing the movie WarGames: 1983, Reagan issued National Security Decision Directive 145 and spurred early anti-hacking legislation. share.google/E80QZTGUTcX7...

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  • F!nn @afinnmac.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2026

    Damn I thought we were gonna get a bobble head of National Security Adviser Michael Kitz from the 1997 Robert Zemeckis film “Contact” based on the 1985 Carl Sagan novel of the same name

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  • Pope Elmo @popeelmo.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2025

    Yeah....nothing says "National Security Threat" quite like a foreign film.... What ? You mean you didn't feel threatened by the Downton Abbey movie ? Hell, I found Maggie Smith absolutely terrifying....😏

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  • This Grandpa Blogs @ThisGrandpaBlogsMastodon · Nov 5, 2026

    The abuse broke the prisoners. It also broke the soldiers who watched it happen. #books #bookreview #BlackSites #NationalSecurity https://thisgrandpablogs.com/cia-torture-whistleblower-review-convenient-terrorist/

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  • The Capitol Forum @capitolforum.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2026

    (1/2) Tech/Media/Telecom Weekly: Mexico to Require National Security Reviews of Foreign Takeovers; Treasury Goes After Firms Shielding Iran's 'Shadow Fleet'; U.S. Tax Reform Group Opposes German AI Proposal; Adam Schiff Seeks to Move National Film Tax Credit Bill; +

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  • Nick Espinosa @NickAEspMastodon · Nov 3, 2026

    Daily podcast: 60 Pages of AI Rules. Zero Released. #AIGovernance #AIPolicy #AISafety #Transparency #NationalSecurity #podcast https://soundcloud.com/nickaesp/war

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  • CyberNetsecIO @netsecioMastodon · Nov 3, 2026

    📰 Over 41,000 DHS Employee and Contractor Records Leaked Online A major data leak exposes the personal and operational details of over 41,000 DHS employees and contractors. The data, released by an activist group, includes PII and info on surveillance programs. #DataBreach #DHS #NationalSecurity #CyberSecurity 🔗 https://cyber.netsecops.io/articles/data-of-over-41000-dhs-employees-leaked-by-activist-group/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=daily

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  • icbrief.org @[email protected]Mastodon · Oct 29, 2026

    IC Brief Morning — 2026-10-29 DIA's 2026 space report assesses China may field space-based directed energy weapons by the late 2020s, compressing the timeline for hardening US targeting and communications satellites. This initial coverage rests on doctrinal analysis, not observed hardware; the assessment may instead reflect extrapolation from ground-based laser programs. DIA's ISR count of over 510 Chinese satellites overstates dedicated military capability by bundling commercial platforms,…

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  • FeetGang Kushington 🔱 @bnbgoodfella.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2026

    Which is the better Martin film Blue Streak ? National Security ? Nothing to Lose ?

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  • icbrief.org @[email protected]Mastodon · Oct 8, 2026

    IC Brief Morning — 2026-10-08 Germany's BND espionage case, escalated this week by formal arrest warrants for Hanning and Manfred D., is forcing a reassessment of allied intelligence sharing. The UK is very unlikely to publicly confirm within 30 days whether British secrets were among the roughly 2,000 leaked documents. Prosecutors are unlikely to indict either defendant by year-end; court filings itemizing the documents' national origins would accelerate partner reassessments. Moderate…

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  • ‘That Red Witch’ She/ Her @mrsrallen.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 9, 2026

    In the film, experts in the areas of Weather Extremes, Climate, Tipping Points, Food Security, Health, National Security, Nature, Economics and Energy Transition talk about why and how, and provide solutions that already exist.

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  • News Mason @newsmason.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    #trends today for 'police arrest' 'national security' & 'scary movie' Click/Tap below: www.newsmason.com?query=%22pol... www.newsmason.com?query=%22nat... www.newsmason.com?query=%22sca... #policearrest #nationalsecurity #scarymovie

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  • Popular Airsoft @popularairsoft.bsky.socialBluesky · May 26, 2026

    News: Playing Airsoft In A Movie Set Valiant Airsoft's video features a group of airsoft players engaging in a tactical match at the Blue Cloud Movie Ranch, where Iron Man, American Sniper, and National Security were filmed. Read on: popularairsoft.com/news/playing... #airsoft

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  • mattstechel.bsky.social @mattstechel.bsky.socialBluesky · May 19, 2026

    i get not getting 1 (Darkness Falls) if you don't like horror (it's also a bad movie in addition!) but you missed on National Security as well??? ("he's not my guy")

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  • OneSheet.org @onesheet.bsky.socialBluesky · May 16, 2026

    National Security (2003) Directed by Dennis Dugan https://onesheet.org/movie/national-security-2003/

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  • UK Media Entertainment News @ukmediaents.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 7, 2026

    Democratic Senators Slam Trump Administration’s Inaction on Reviewing Paramount’s Warner Bros. Deal for National Security Risks Over Backing by Arab Wealth Funds variety.com/2026/film/ne...

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  • Nyal Fuentes @nyalfuentes.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 25, 2025

    every day is dumber and more dangerous than the day before. I'm not sure he knows anything about history he hasn't seen in a John Wayne movie. Much less the complexity of the National Security Act.

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  • High5 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @high5assfuck.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2025

    Hey look out. Trump says foreign films are a National Security threat. Because he thinks you’re too stupid to realize it’s a movie and not reality. Gee I wonder why he would ever think you’re that dumb ?

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  • Nunya Biznass @tiktokghost.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 1, 2025

    Lol idk why but this reminds me of that movie National Security with Martin Lawrence 😂 😭☠️👏

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  • r96sk @r96skTMDB reviews · Jan 12, 2025

    'National Security' isn't terribly adrift from being a standard Martin Lawrence flick, which would be a compliment as he is an actor I've mildly enjoyed in said sorta roles down the years. This one just doesn't work, which is a shame as I also like co-star Steve Zahn in other films too. Zahn feels miscast, Lawrence is the one that stops this from truly falling through the floor. There are good jokes in there, albeit via the overly relied upon race humour, and it features some solid practical…

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