 The partners James, we protect each other. Jason! Ben, Ben! Got on the vest. I definitely saved your life, man. Don't go too far now. James! So Ice Cube and Kevin Hart are back for Ride Along 2. I'm Brandon Keith-Avery, and this is just my opinion. So like I said, Kevin Hart and Ice Cube are back for Ride Along 2. I really didn't care for the first film I thought it was a completely missed opportunity. I felt it was corny and it wasn't as funny as it should have been. That's a shame because I love buddy cop movies. I love Ice Cube, I love Kevin Hart. I mean, Kevin Hart is a funny guy. His stand-ups are hilarious. He has a few good films and he really is a true talent. And Ice Cube is just Ice Cube. Everybody loves Ice Cube. Now the director for Ride Along 2 is the same as the first. Tim Story, he did the first Ride Along. He also did Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer and those are slightly entertaining but overall disappointing. But he did direct two films that I like, Think Like a Man and Think Like a Man 2. I don't understand why I just don't like Ride Along 2. What I do and I have to give the blame to the director, Tim Story. There's just really nothing special about him behind the camera. I mean, he's a competent director. He will stay within the budget. He will start filming when it's supposed to start and end it when it's supposed to be done but there's nothing special about him. He's not horrible, but he's not great either. Now I hate to compare films but right now I feel that I have to. And when comparing films, films like Wash Hour and Wash Hour 2 succeeded were Ride Along fails. I don't know why. I guess it was that Junkie Chan and Chris Tucker were polar opposites. One had funny, comedic moments to make you laugh and the other had action. And when you bring those together, it made a great film. But when Ice Cube and Kevin Hart are being together you're not really in love with their relationship. You really hate it because Kevin Hart, they just don't get along and it should be funny, but it's not. Kevin Hart is Ben Barber and I don't like his character for two reasons. One is because Kevin Hart is just playing himself. Kevin Hart. And the other part of it is his character, Ben Barber is playing someone that he is not trying to be. I like characters to be true to themselves, to be confident in the person that they are. And if they aren't, I want that to be a lesson that they learn towards the end of the film to make them better. But Kevin Hart's character, Ben Barber is just going around trying to be a super cop and that is not who he is. He's just going around pulling on Ice Cube's co-tail James, James, James, James. And that is annoying. I don't wanna see that for an hour and a half, an hour and 45 minutes. Be who you are. And so it's not funny in the movie and I don't accept you as a character. That's very annoying. The only great thing about Ben Barber's character is when he's actually being himself, but that was only a small amount of the time. When he's using his cop skills to negotiate to find out why a crime happened through interrogation or interviews with possible suspects, it works. And it cares the film. It actually adds something to his character and I like that. But the film only did it this much. They should have did it a lot more. They should have had James, Ice Cube's character be the rough top cop with all the guns. And they should have had Ben Barber, Kevin Hart's character to be the nice, calming, smooth talking genuine that gets answers when aggressive behavior is not the way to go. As far as Ice Cube's character, he's just playing Ice Cube. And I know I just gave that complaint to Kevin Hart, but for some reason it works for Ice Cube. Now this is an action comedy. There's a few struggles, but not enough laughs in the action, you can't take it seriously. Kevin Hart is just trigger happy with his pistol shooting everybody when they're trying to tie their shoes. And it's like, hey man, just don't give this guy a gun. This is not the role for him. He is not supposed to be doing this. It's coming across more annoying than funny. And there's just no danger at all. The action just isn't there. The scene where Ice Cube picks up Kevin Hart and blocks the bullets with a vest. That's just not funny. It's not realistic. And of course it's really not supposed to be. It's supposed to make me laugh, but I didn't laugh. And there were really no positive aspects about the story that just didn't add up and made sense. If these cops have an objective and they're trying to get to point A or point B, they went well out of their way to get there. And I kept saying to myself, okay, if this is what you want to do to save the day, all you have to do is do this, but you're making it a lot harder on yourself. And that was another thing that brought the film down. I wasn't sleepy when I saw this. I wanted to laugh. I went in with a good mood, but it just didn't do anything for me. If I had to rate this film out of a one out of 10, I would give it a 5.5 out of 10. But guys, that's just my opinion. As I was walking out to theater, there was a mother and daughter together. The mother asked the daughter, hey, did you like the film? She said, hey, I thought it was funny. It wasn't as corny as the first one. I don't feel that way. So have you seen Ride Alone 2? Do you want to see it? Have I turned you off? Have I turned you on? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know in the comment section below. Let's get this conversation going to keep it flowing. If you liked this video, go ahead and give me the thumbs up. And if you did like the video, that's fine. Just leave me a comment below why and still give me the thumbs up. 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