Review of Ride Along 2 (2016) by Al K — 26 May 2016

Ken Jeong was one of the stars of this film. He was supposed to be clever, cunning and calculated. Kevin Hart was also in this film, obviously. I'm not sure what he was supposed to be. They were probably going for humor, but I definitely didn't find any throughout the film. Ride Along 2 was boring, poorly written, and completely devoid of humor of any kind. I was quite disappointed as the trailers made it seem halfway decent.

Besides just being plain stupid, the movie's attempts at making us laugh just led to groans and cringeworthy moment after cringeworthy moment. I'd heard complaints about Kevin Hart in the past but since I don't generally watch his films, I pretty much ignored them. I completely get it now. The screaming, "mumbling jokes", and all around randomness were just all so bizarre. It's like they wanted to write jokes but decided to just wing it and watch Kevin shout at the screen. His performance was pretty painful to witness for sure.

Ice Cube on the other hand played his other half about as well as he could. How do you counter a screaming Kevin Hart? Put Ice Cube next to him and keep him stonefaced the entire time. Again, if they had written jokes then this pairing just might have worked. It's just a shame they chose not to.

Do I need to go over Ken Jeong? I don't think so. You all already know how that went. When have you ever seen him do something different? Never is the right answer here. Never may be the right word to end this review as I have no desire to ever go back and watch this again. It wasn't the worst movie I've ever seen, but it was just so dull. If you were thinking about seeing this, don't bother.