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Highly Overrated But Still Good

As Good As It Gets

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

A strong and skilled cop is forced to work with an unskilled misfit who causes everything to go wrong. This has been done by mainstream Hollywood hundreds of times, this time passing on the torch to Kevin Hart. This is yet another laugh-less comedy with garbage writing from two unfunny actors. This is just a flat-out bad movie.

Plot; Security guard Ben must prove himself to his girlfriend's brother, top police officer James. He rides along James on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta.This is one of the top 5 worst buddy or buddy cop films ever made. Both Ice Cube and Kevin Hart have zero chemistry with each other, Cube looks like he is bored doing this and is only doing these films for the paycheck, Hart is annoying as hell trying to be a Chris Tucker wannabe and failing. The story is generic, uninteresting, and overall boring. The action is lackluster and unmemorable. The only positive thing I can say is Laurence Fishburne who actually tries to give a performance unlike everyone else in this film.This is easily one of the worst buddy or buddy cop films ever made, don't watch it if you haven't seen it, watch good ones like Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, Showdown in Little Tokyo, Bad Boys, Tango and Cash just to name a few.

It just wasn't that funny. The plot was weak at best and rife with clichés. From start to finish it stayed at a consistent mediocre level. For a movie filled with talented and usually hilarious actors I just don't know what happened. It had nothing to do with the fact that the idea has been done to death, the jokes just weren't funny. The characters needed to be more lovable and endearing. It wasn't until the very end that I started to see the chemistry between Ice Cube and Kevin Hart. Too late in my opinion.The strangest thing is that they made a second one of this movie. Who knows maybe it will be better since it seems to have a storyline to carry it.

The idea of doing a comic take on the serious drama "Training Day" may sound strange at first, but they say there are no bad ideas, just bad execution of ideas. While "Ride Along" isn't a bad comedy, at its best it is just mildly amusing. I think a big reason why it isn't funnier than it is is due to the screenplay being very predictable. Once you know the premise of the movie, you can pretty much predict what is going to happen some time before it actually does. The screenplay (written by FOUR screenwriters!) should have been wilder in both its humor and with the plot. But as I said, there are still some amusing moments here and there. What really does keep the movie afloat are the performances by the two leads, Ice Cube and Kevin Hart. They both give very appealing performances and show that they are up to the challenge of whatever the screenplay and direction could throw at them. It's a pity, though, that they weren't given much material that was more biting in nature.