Rob McElhenney putting on 50 pounds for a season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Perhaps it wasn't as extreme as some others I've seen. I guess I just respect a person's willingness to do just about anything to get a laugh. Perhaps saying I was entertained by Hart's antics is going too far, it's a combination of entertainment and amusement. Perhaps I was in a good mood and I'd have hated this film any other day. But you have to take the positives where you can find them, right? You could argue that I'm being far too generous with the rating I'm giving the film, but I was entertained by some of Hart's antics, and his chemistry with Ice Cube is fairly solid. Some would say you have a worse film WITH him in it.

Take Hart out of this film and you have a considerably worse film. This is a script that is certainly on cruise control, it's just content to let Kevin Hart go nuts in order to give the appearance that it's an inspired film, when it's anything but. Betrayals, dirty cops, hostage situations involving one of the main character's family. Of course this reeks of sexism as the only person who really should decided if Ben is worth her time or not is actually Angela, but I suppose there was no real thought put into the actual scripting for the film, as it runs the gamut of cop film cliches. I'm not suggesting it's great comedy, it's not even good comedy, but Hart is entertaining as this almost childlike character who's jut trying to prove that he's worth being with James' sister. Really, if it wasn't for him I don't think this film would've gotten the rating it did.

Now I'll never say that Hart is funnier than Murphy, but I'm somewhat reminded of him when I see Hart and the success he's achieved as a stand-up comic and an actor. Hart, at this stage of his film career, reminds me of Eddie Murphy when he first started. This one certainly benefits from Kevin Hart's energetic presence and his chemistry with Ice Cube is pretty good all things considered. This is pretty much every buddy cop film you have ever seen.

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