Central Intelligence

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson for president!

If you put The Rock into any film it seems to bring it up a few notches, well most films, Hercules was pretty far down the notch ladder to start with!  But Kevin Hart is a little of a fad for me, his recent escapades with Ice Cube in the Ride Along films were far from entertaining.  It feels like he is the same person in all his character portrayals, and they all feel a little 90's.

That being said, throw Mr Johnson into the mix and he suddenly become mildly more entertaining.

Central Intelligence is a 90's style buddy cop movie, nothing new, nothing adventurous, nothing out of the ordinary.  You will have seen this film 100 times before, the back and forth comedy has been done before, the plot has been done many many times before and the twist and turns are highly expected, but you know what, I enjoyed this outing thoroughly.  Now it is not one I would recommend parting with hard earned cash for, especially with the price of a cinema ticket now, but one that when it comes to Netflix or other streaming services that it is added to the queue of things to watch with beer in hand.

The banter between our two main protagonists is superb, a lot of it feels improvised between the two but that makes it more natural rather than scripted.  The adoption of the 90's style outtakes at the end emphasise this thought as well.

The is a nice little threat of ambiguity of The Rock's allegiance that has you questioning character choices and some nice little stunts thrown in for good measure.  A few laughs along the way and a good back story to each character.

Nothing new, nothing original but highly entertaining. Can we please have the Rock in more films please?