a5c7b9f00b Security guard Ben must prove himself to his girlfriend&#39;s brother, top police officer James. He rides along James on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta. Ben must prove he is good enough to date cop James&#39; sister. By doing this he goes on a &quot;Ride Along&quot; to show that he is not weak and he will do whatever it takes to get James&#39; approval but along the way runs into a few obstacles that he has to overcome in a very funny way. I Really wanted to like this movie. I usually enjoy Kevin Hart and Ice Cube I have followed since the Friday movies. But even the last Friday movie was more fun than this. The problem is it has all been seen so many times before and better! the characters are more caricatures than characters. The jokes you know long before they actually happen. Ice Cube is being more &quot;badass&quot; than in XXX 2, which only makes him appear more moronic. But my biggest problem with the movie is Kevin Hart. That guy can be sooo hilarious! this movie is the ONLY movie where I did not find him funny at all, and at the end were only annoyed by him. A real shame…… There are some laughs here, but overall I found this comedy to be rather lame, stale and ridiculous. When you have 4 screenwriters listed,in this film, it&#39;s usually a bad sign.<br/><br/>Kevin Hart and Ice Cube star here, with Hart portraying Ben Barber, who&#39;s a rather diminutive high school security guard and expert video game player. He&#39;s in a loving relationship with Angela Payton (Tika Sumpter), who&#39;s very proud of Ben when he&#39;s accepted into the police academy.<br/><br/>However, her highly overprotective brother James, played by Ice Cube, is a Detective with the Atlanta Police Department, and he feels Ben is certainly not good enough for his sister. James is gruff, volatile, and a loner on the force, but he agrees to take Ben on a ride-along for a day of police work.<br/><br/>James&#39; main intention though is to place Ben in one impossible situation after another, on the streets of Atlanta, so he can prove to Angela once and for all that Ben doesn&#39;t have what it takes and is really a &quot;loser&quot;.<br/><br/>Finally,Ben closes in on a major arms deal that&#39;s going down with a major crime-lord, named Omar (Laurence Fishburne), it all culminates in an overly long, absurd, and predictable finale.<br/><br/>All in all, the plot here just seemed to be a &quot;one-trick pony&quot;, with the same theme being run over and over. Combined with the flat humor, I was glad when it was over. A little Kevin Hart goes a long way in Ride Along, a dull buddy picture engineereda vehicle for the mini motor mouth and the perma-sneering Ice Cube.
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