Ride Along at your own risk!

                So Ride Along recently was released on blue ray/ DVD  so I figured it was finally time to get around to watching it. The movie is an action comedy, with way more emphasis on the comedy, staring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart.  Hart plays a high school security officer who dreams of marring his girlfriend, the only thing standing in his way is her overprotective brother who happens to be a police detective played by Cube.   Hart figures that if he can join the police academy he can impress Cube enough to win his blessing.  Not wanting to make it easy on him, Cube takes him on a ride along and tries to put him through hell in the attempts of discouraging him.

                For the most part this is a pretty good watch.  The timing is good.  There is a decent amount of plot to keep it moving.  It’s shot well. It’s even pretty funny at some parts.  But unfortunately it just doesn’t seem to fulfill what it could have been.  By that I mean that there were just too many opportunities to make it funnier or more engaging that just seemed to be completely over looked.

Ice Cube plays a tough bad ass cop but that’s about it.  He has proven in the past to be funny and it would have been great to see that break out more since this is you know, a comedy.  Kevin Hart is one of the hottest comics on the scene right now and he provides majority of the movies laughs but I felt that they were trying to avoid having him come off as a complete spas so they put the comedic reigns on him as well. It’s not that Harts character isn’t really cut out for the police force, he’s just inexperienced.  It might have been better for Cube to set him up to fail but have Hart find a way through it all in a funny fashion and to Cubes surprise.

The lack of building a better relationship between the two ends up leaving the end a little flat.  All in all I would say it’s worth watching because there are a few good laughs in it, just try not to expect too much from it.