Review of Central Intelligence
Revue of Central Intelligence
Initial Release Date: June 17, 2016
Genre: Comedy
Directed By: Rawson Marshall Thurber
In high school in 1996, Bob Stone (Dwayne Johnson) is the class fat kid who is always picked on and bullied because of his weight. Kevin Hart is Calvin Joyner is the most popular guy on campus. Fast forward 20 years and Calvin is a depressed accountant who feels he has not quite attained the heights in his professional career as he anticipated while Bob has lost weight and gained muscles and is now a deadly CIA agent (who would have thought). Calvin and Bob reunite via Facebook and team up to stop compromised US satellite codes from falling into the wrong hands.
Remember when you graduated from school with tall dreams of how you were gonna “hammer” and impact this world but now you sit behind a desk at your dreary 9-5 job with no prospects of making it to the top. Don’t you just wish you were back in school where you were the popular kid with the world at your feet? This movie latches on to that sentimental/nostalgic feeling and throws in some fast paced action sequences and espionage to serve a pretty decent movie experience.
I must say that the plot is not a particularly novel one and there were times when I thought I was watching Ride Along (Starring Ice-cube and Kevin Hart). Also the conflict resolution was a tad bit predictable and even Stevie Wonder could have seen it from a mile off.
Because I like Dwayne Johnson and I had a few good laughs Central Intelligence earns 6.7/10 on my awesome-o-meter. Make sure you look out for cameo appearances from Melissa McCarthy and Bobby Brown.
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The Maveriq
The plot is definitely too predictable but at least we will watch for the laughs...and that leads to the age long conundrum is Kevin Hart really funny?
ReplyDeleteI think I enjoyed the movie, although I feel Hart is stereotyping himself with roles like this-pray he doesn't end up like chris Talker and Jim carrey...
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