Ride along is a 2014 action comedy directed by tom story featuring the critically acclaimed comedian/actor Kevin hart who is known to create the comedic timings and comedic jokes in his other movies for example central intelligence he created the comedic feeling similar to in Ride along. Kevin teams up the rapper/Actor ice cube who was part of the rapping group NWA in the 1980s and his time in this group has had its own film made about it which has showed the insight to his life behind his hip-hop group NWA which brought Ice cube to fame after he had left his previous rapping trio C.I.A when he was only 16.This duo goes on a perilous mission to Atlanta as the Cop James Payton (Ice Cube) and the wannabe cop/high school security guard Ben Barber (Kevin Hart) who wants to prove his worth to James (Ice Cube) so that he can marry his sister, Angela. So the duo travels to Atlanta to catch a Serbian smugglers boss, Omar. The film
features many comedic parts but also many action sequences where Ben(Kevin) uses his video game knowledge to save James whereas James just uses his policing experience. Even though this film did not receive the best reception when it was released i think that this 2014 action was a great addition to the duos careers.
I'm always amazed by the endurance of the 'Buddy' cop movie - perhaps their predictability is the appeal? And maybe I'm being unfair - but perhaps that's the same with Kevin Hart because I find it incredibly hard to fathom his popularity!! Ice Cube, on the other hand, is an altogether far more fascinating artist - I think people will look at this part of his career as an attempt to somewhat sanitise his representation in comparison to his NWA days - however people forget that he has been positioning himself as a film star and writer of dramatic and comedic films since the early/mid 90s - most famously with his role in John Singleton's Boyz n the Hood, but…