Central Intelligence Film Review

Finished watching Central Intelligence, directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and staring Kevin Hart, Dwayne Johnson, Danielle Nicolet and Amy Ryan. The film opens up twenty years in the past as top student Calvin Joyner (Kevin Hart) being awarded in the years final assembly when a group of bully's throw Robbie Wheirdicht (Dwayne Johnson) on to the middle of the schools basketball court when the group of kids see him singing in the schools showers. Calvin then helps Robbie up from his embarrassing moment. Years later in the preset Calvin has married his childhood sweetheart Maggie (Danielle Nicolet) but is questioning about how his life has turned out especially with the school reunion looming in a few days time. Once Calvin is back at work he receives a message from Robbie who has changed his name to Bob Stone and has become a C.I.A agent and is in need of Calvin's help on a case. Things turn for the worse when Bob's boss agent Pamela Harris (Amy Ryan) goes on a hunt for Bob after he's gone rogue from the C.I.A. Overall this was a good film as the comedy, while great, is very predicable in places, regardless of this the film still hits all of the marks as a large amount of the comedy is extremely laugh out loud funny. The action scenes are choreographed and edited together extremely well while the reactions from characters to what's going on within the scenes help to keep the comedic tone to the film. The interactions between Calvin and Bob are brought over perfectly thanks to how the two actors play off each other which is highlighted during the outtakes that are shown during the films credits which helps to show how well the two work on scene together. 7/10.