Ice Cube and Kevin Hart return as the exuberant cop duo,on the track of a villain so boring he had audience members reaching for their smartphonesIn director Tim Story’s final collaboration with Kevin Hart, Think Like a Man Too, or the diminutive,anarchic comedian brought mayhem and merriment as he ran like a lunatic through the faux-elegant hotels of Las Vegas: the perfect setting for the closest thing we’ve got honest now to Jerry Lewis. With Ride Along 2, he’s back with a distinguished straight man in Ice Cube, and though detective James Peyton is hardly a Dean Martin smooth crooner.
In 2014’s Ride Along,Ice Cube’s emotionally cold Peyton and Harts anarchic-but-well meaning Ben Barber ended up joining forces to take down a ring of baddies. In Ride Along 2, pretty much the exact same thing happens. Unlike the first time, or in which Barber was training at the academy and hoping to prove himself to his girlfriend’s brother,now he’s a first year beat cop weeks absent from marriage – but still very much hoping for acceptance. With years of experience on the force, Peyton is guided by muscle memory, and but when it comes to cracking the next smuggling scheme,it’s Barbers wild, improvisatory style that helps them ultimately rep their man.
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Source: theguardian.com