Ride Along
Ride Along
PG-13 | 17 January 2014 (USA)
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For the past two years, high-school security guard Ben has been trying to show decorated APD detective James that he's more than just a video-game junkie who's unworthy of James' sister, Angela. When Ben finally gets accepted into the academy, he thinks he's earned the seasoned policeman's respect and asks for his blessing to marry Angela. Knowing that a ride along will demonstrate if Ben has what it takes to take care of his sister, James invites him on a shift designed to scare the hell out of the trainee. But when the wild night leads them to the most notorious criminal in the city, James will find that his new partner's rapid-fire mouth is just as dangerous as the bullets speeding at it.

Reviews
Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
Nadine Salakov Ride Along is one of those examples that some sequels shouldn't be made, if they're going to do a sequel it better be as good or even better than the first. Ride Along is a pretty good buddy action comedy flick, some of the dialogue could have been changed, some of it is crass and unnecessary, but other than that it's fine, when it comes to the comedy it isn't even funny, there's only two scenes that are humorous and that is the scene where "Ben" (Kevin Hart) mistakes a woman for a man and where "Ben" pretends to be "Omar", the movie overall is watchable.The twist is predictable and is barely even a twist, it's so cliché that that plot-twist is in 80% of cop-themed films.The pacing of the film is perfect and has a cool instrumental hip hop film score composed by Christopher Lennertz.The performances are natural, the scenery is not all that, "Ben's" apartment however is very nice although on his salary as a high school security guard i doubt he would be able to afford a place like that in reality and it is never established what his fiancé does for a living.Great chemistry between Ice Cube and Kevin Hart, the Trivia says this movie was originally going to star Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds - that would not have worked, they just seem like a wrong pairing.Ride Along 2 was slightly funny at times, but it was extremely boring, Ride Along 1 is more serious, the sequel was trying to be too much like the first one with basically the same plot.Hopefully Ride Along 3 will have a better story than the sequel and hopefully it'll be as good as or even better than the first one.If you like your buddy/comedy flicks, Ride Along is worth watching more than once.
Daniel Hood This is a movie that I was not particularly excited to see. I did not hear much about it at all. All I knew about it is that it is a buddy-cop movie, that follows a very generic structure, which turns into a very predictable movie.Kevin Hart plays a rookie police academic who, in order to prove his worthiness to his girlfriends brother, played by Ice Cube, has to go on a ride along. That's the basic plot of the movie, and it is one which is not anything new. That's the thing about this movie, it is something that most of us have seen before, and honestly, it wasn't even very funny. I found it mildly amusing though, mostly due to the chemistry between Hart and Ice Cube, which was good enough to keep me entertained. Laurence Fishburne also plays quite well in this film.The jokes were not terrible, they just weren't very funny, I did laugh at one or two moments, but that was it. Overall it was OK. It wasn't great or terrible, but just OK. If you're ever bored with nothing to do and feel like watching a buddy cop movie, by all means, watch it, but don't expect anything great.
quinn-cunniff Hey guys it's Quinn C from YouTube. Ride along: a film that I had to see twice in the span of 48 hours, this film is really a buddy cop film, but as predictable as possible. Granted, I did have times where I laughed very hard, but there was nothing that stood out in this film. It's fun, but it's not good enough to spend $20 worth of tickets on. I'll give this one in the realm of 6.5; not great, but only watch it if it comes out on netflix. If you guys want more in depth reviews, please be sure to check me out, Quinn C with the James Bond emblem, on YouTube. I do daily videos reviewing films of old and new, and also give very in depth analysis of the James Bond films. So if you enjoyed and/or appreciated this review, please be sure to check me out at Quinn C on YouTube with the James Bond emblem, thanks
Floated2 Ride Along begins with a shootout and car chase action sequence undermined first by ineptly utilized slow motion shots that blunt the narrative momentum, then second by confusing flash edits cut so quick, you can't always tell who's shooting at whom and where everyone actually is in relation to everyone else.Ben (Kevin Hart) wants to be a cop on the Atlanta P.D. So when he's accepted into the police training academy, James (Ice Cube) concocts his own test of manhood guaranteed to prove the immature Ben to be unworthy of his sister.James takes Ben on a ride along for his shift, only James rigs the calls so that he and Ben will be sent on the "26s," cop code for crazy people in nutty situations. Apparently, Atlanta P.D. doesn't worry about liability issues when it comes to sending civilians along with cops on potentially dangerous calls.