Central Intelligence

Central Intelligence

Rating 6 out of 10

Can't go wrong with the Rock and Kevin Hart can you?  Well you can't if you set the bar low enough.  This is a movie that puts all it's eggs in the star's basket.  Don't waste time and money with any time of story.  Throw those two together and people with be entertained.  For the most part they are correct.  This is more like an SNL skit extended to 114 minutes with a good cast.

If you have seen the trailers you know that at a pep rally everyones favorite Calvin Joyner (Hart) has his acceptance speech interrupted when some bullies throw a naked and very fat Bob Stone (Duane Johnson) onto the gym floor.  Calvin is the only one to befriend him.  Flash forward 20 years to the eve of the HS reunion.  Calvin's day starts off with a friend request on facebook and gets progressively worse.

Stone is the goofy sensitive one while Calvin is the stern serious one.  It works, sometimes.  By far the funniest part of the movie is the outtakes at the end.  You have to stay for that.  Otherwise this would make a cute rental. I was mildly entertained.  I used my new Movie Pass so in my mind it didn't cost me anything except for my medium diet coke.