Sunday, 12 April 2015

FILM: Get Hard (dir: Etan Cohen, 2015)

"If this isn't a joke, then it is my worst nightmare."

Get Hard is the least funny major comedy release since the deplorable Your Highness.  Apart from a couple of visual gags that raise a smile, a relentlessly unconvincing narrative and predictably lazy puerile stereotyping makes the film a chore to sit through, in spite of the fact that the set-up suggests the film will actually bust stereotyping myths.  Will Ferrell disappointingly plays safe in a charmlessly smug performance, with Kevin Hart's empty, shrieking flailing adding little to the mix.  You know you are in trouble when the accompanying trailer for Paul Blart - Mall Cop 2 got bigger laughs from the cinema audience.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

This entire movie just felt so predictable that you could almost predict lines that they will say.