Ride Along

Ride Along

Rating 5 out of 10

Kevin Hart is a funny guy.  He is now what Eddie Murphy was as a young man.  Very funny and full of energy.  The world is his oyster.  The problem is he is picking his movies now like the older less wiser Murphy.  Hart was very funny in the underrated movie Think Like a Man.  He is also funny at times in Ride Along.  Sadly he has to work way too hard to get most of those laughs.

Hart plays a Atlanta high school security guard with aspirations of someday becoming a police detective.  He wants to marry his way too hot for him girlfriend Angela (Tika Sumpter) but needs the approval of her tough as nails actual police detective (Ice Cube).  The brother has no respect for him and asks him to go on the "ride along" in the rough streets of ATL so he can ridicule him and persuade him from marrying his sister.

There is a side story of a years long investigation of an unseen evil arms dealer that is coming to an head on the one night of the ride along.  There are some funny parts and it is fun seeing the many parts of downtown Atlanta used in filming this movie.

I was mildly entertained.  Just keep your expectations low walking into the theater.