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| Kevin Hart and Ice Cube |
Don't go on this loud, dumb "Ride Along"
The dreadful new comedy "Ride Along" only proves what a junky movie month January can be. It also proves that regardless of what studios put out, people will pay to see it. Peppered with a few genuinely funny moments, this scattershot, thin comedy will mostly annoy you. A fast-talking, jumpy security guard Ben (Kevin Hart) joins his potential brother-in-law James (Ice Cube), an APD cop/detective, on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta in order to prove himself worthy of marrying Angela (Tika Sumpter), James' sister. Directed by Tim Story, who helmed the hit 2012 film "Think Like a Man," this inane, predictable and often mean-spirited buddy-buddy cop movie relies too heavily on the schtick of Hart, whose big mouth and pratfalls grow tiresome from the opening scenes of the movie. Much like in the recent, equally awful comedy "Grudge Match," this demonstrates that Hart, with wild antics and a penchant for screaming his lines, is vastly overrated and best taken in small (no pun intended) doses. Ice Cube, meanwhile, seems content with being stepping back and being his usually grouchy self, while the lackluster script manages to waste a gorgeous actress like Sumpter, of TV's "The Haves and Have Nots." The last act becomes more energetic with a needless subplot involving gangsters along with the always entertaining Laurence Fishburne in a delightfully evil role that is the film's most inspired bit of casting. Forgettable and silly (not to mention most of the things that Hart's character, a civilian, does is illegal), you'll have to wait for "Ride Along's" best scene involving an exploding grill over the end credits. Don't think is going away easily, either. A sequel has already been greenlit.
Wes's Grade: D
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