I recently saw the new film Ride Along starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart with some friends. Ice Cube has been a go to Black actor ever since the original Friday from the 1990s. Hart is a comedian that's becoming increasingly popular with several films coming out. In Ride Along Ice Cube stars as a hardened Atlanta cop on the trail of a shadowy crime lord and Hart stars as a High School Security guard who's dating Cube's sister with intents to propose. Hart wants to approval to marry his sister but in order to do this has to prove that he is worthy of her. They make a deal that if Kevin could get through a day shadowing Cube's work as a cop, he would give approval. Don't be confused, this movie is a buddy cop-esque comedy.
Kevin is a FPS addicted guard who dreams of getting accepted into the police academy and becoming a police officer while Ice Cube's a loner that doesn't play by the rules who is obsessed with catching an illusive criminal named Omar. I would describe it as Lethal Weapon meets Friday. Cube wants to scare him out of becoming a cop so gives him the most mundane duties throughout most of the day but one particular incident leads to a short gun battle. Most of the gags involved Hart's physical comedy, his naivete, and his adventurous sex life with his girlfriend. Basically the antics go on until Cube is betrayed and caught by some dirty cops and Hart has to use his unique skills to save him. Later when Hart's girlfriend his captured by Omar, Hart and Cube must put their newly found respect for each other to the test to save her.
Overall I felt that the movie was entertaining but incredibly predictable. Any viewer could tell that the story would end with Kevin Hart's character doing something heroic to catch the bad guy, winning the approval and being on the road to becoming a cop. I feel that it would have been more interesting for him to decide to not become a cop and instead become a guidance counselor or something like that. I'm saying this because of the opening scene where he convinced a student to not skip class in a rather outrageous manner and it left a bit of an impact on me. I believe I might just be putting too must thought into a popcorn comedy. I enjoyed Ride Along but I feel like I could be better served by Watching Friday and some standup comedy. Keeping with the Kevin Hart theme, I will talk about Grudge Match: Story of Two Old guys Punching Each Other.
Kevin is a FPS addicted guard who dreams of getting accepted into the police academy and becoming a police officer while Ice Cube's a loner that doesn't play by the rules who is obsessed with catching an illusive criminal named Omar. I would describe it as Lethal Weapon meets Friday. Cube wants to scare him out of becoming a cop so gives him the most mundane duties throughout most of the day but one particular incident leads to a short gun battle. Most of the gags involved Hart's physical comedy, his naivete, and his adventurous sex life with his girlfriend. Basically the antics go on until Cube is betrayed and caught by some dirty cops and Hart has to use his unique skills to save him. Later when Hart's girlfriend his captured by Omar, Hart and Cube must put their newly found respect for each other to the test to save her.
Overall I felt that the movie was entertaining but incredibly predictable. Any viewer could tell that the story would end with Kevin Hart's character doing something heroic to catch the bad guy, winning the approval and being on the road to becoming a cop. I feel that it would have been more interesting for him to decide to not become a cop and instead become a guidance counselor or something like that. I'm saying this because of the opening scene where he convinced a student to not skip class in a rather outrageous manner and it left a bit of an impact on me. I believe I might just be putting too must thought into a popcorn comedy. I enjoyed Ride Along but I feel like I could be better served by Watching Friday and some standup comedy. Keeping with the Kevin Hart theme, I will talk about Grudge Match: Story of Two Old guys Punching Each Other.
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