Film 26 - Ride Along

Ride Along - 01/03/2014

Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh made buddy cop movies for me in the 80's/90's and this has never been topped since.  The connection between the two cops from different backgrounds just worked.

Again in 2001, in a different style,  Denzel took Ethan Hawke for a "Training Day" and blew me away.

Ride Along is a buddy cop movie with Ice Cube taking brother-in-law to be, Kevin Hart on a training day to see if he can cut it and prove he is worthy to marry Ice's sister.  There are a few references to Training Day, and every other buddy cop movie has followed the same story.  The reveal of the bad guys was predicted at the very start of the movie, the double cross detectives were obvious from the very word go.

Kevin Hart is big bucks at the minute, taking America by storm.  But, his whiny voice didn't do anything for me.  A few funny moments but nothing that we hadn't seen in the trailer.

If you really have the urge to watch a buddy cop movie, watch Lethal Weapon (any of them, they all work). If you want to watch the movie they keep referring, then I definitely recommend Training Day.