If you’re looking for a movie that
gets you thinking and has a deep meaning behind it, then Ride Along isn’t the
movie for you. If, however, you’re after a couple of hours of laughs, no
thinking required, you’re set!
Ride Along stars Kevin Hart and Ice
Cube as Ben and James. Ben is a high school security guard who loves playing
shoot-em-up style video games and hopes to make it into the Police Academy so
he can finally feel worthy of his girlfriend, Angela, and in turn ask her to
marry him. Angela’s big brother, James, who happens to be a police officer, disapproves
of Ben and makes it no secret. James decides to take Ben on a ride along with
him to see what he’s made of. Making sure he gets all the annoying cases for
the day, James hopes to turn Ben off joining the academy. It works at first,
until Ben realises James is working on a much bigger case, tracking down crime kingpin
Omar, who happens to have never been sighted by anyone…ever. It doesn’t take long for Ben to start
sniffing around and the boys end up with more than the joyride they bargained
for.
Kevin Hart is his signature fast
talking and over the top idiot (not a far cry from his Think Like A Man
character), and Ice Cube, well he doesn’t go too far out of his comfort zone either
falling back on scary/funny persona (pretty much exactly his Captain Dickson character
in 21 Jump Street).
I went to a screening attended by
Kevin and he had the cinema in stitches before the movie even started, so it
definitely can’t be said that the guy isn’t funny. He even did a huge group selfie with everyone, similar to
that of Ellen’s Oscar’s selfie…OK it was nothing like that, but he tried! The movie isn’t completely terrible in
terms of action/comedies, it’s a predictable film that probably should have
quit while it was ahead rather than tacking on more and more “action” scenes.
Having said that, Universal have already got a sequel on the way, so they
certainly believe in the franchise’s ability to make money. You won’t be disappointed
by this movie if we’re going by the reactions of the audience at my screening
who laughed hysterically for most of the film. If you liked 21 Jump Street,
then this movie should tide you over until 22 Jump Street is released.
2.5/5
Check out the trailer if you haven't seen it already:
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