By DJ Momo
When you hear CIA, you think spy, Mission Impossible, terrorist
attacks, etc. On the other hand, the Agency itself pushes to seem more “normal”
explaining their jobs to be mostly deskwork. Well guess what? Central
Intelligence does not conform to what the Big Brother Agency wants and you know
what? It is the better for it.
First off, let’s talk about the actors. A few years back, the world
was gifted with the presence of Kevin Hart. He was funny, he was spontaneous
and he was ridiculous. And even though you’d expect all of this to have died
down by now, it hasn’t. Kevin Hart is still the hilarious actor he was years
ago and he makes sure to remind us of that today. Kevin, as always, plays the
funny little guy that you have fun laughing at and he is amazing at it. But
wait! It’s not just him in the movie. Little small Kevin is joined by the
humongous Dwayne Johnson AKA The Rock. I am not joking when I say the guy is
humongous. You’ll find yourself staring at his huge guns for the duration of
the movie. Dwayne brought his best to this movie showing comedic prowess most
people didn’t know he had. Pairing those two together was a genius idea, a
casting so good in fact that it can (in a long-shot) be compared to Batman and
Superman. Here is the thing though, I am not saying the acting was amazing. It’s
not the kind of movie you go to for the acting. The amazing thing was more the
exchange between the actors. It seemed so real that you can’t imagine it being
any different in real life.
Moving on to the directing itself, there isn’t much to say. Again,
just like it’s not a movie you go to see the acting of, you shouldn’t go to see
this movie for the directing. The thing is, while a lot of comedies are better
because of the directing (Inside Out, Easy A, Bridesmaids), there are also a lot
of comedies today in which the directing is not present and there not
necessarily bad, but the lack of it is certainly not for the better. This movie
falls in this second category, given that throughout the movie, you never feel like there might be a mastermind working on every scene.
Now don’t get me wrong, while the duo is hilarious, the plot isn’t.
The story of the movie, on the other hand, needed a little bit of work. If you
look at any character other than the main two, you are going to realize that they
are 2 dimensional. The plot of the movie focuses so much on Kevin Hart and
Dwayne Johnson’s characters that all the other characters feel like a bunch of “MacGyvers”
with very weird and sometimes unexplainable intentions and a lot of the elements
of the story based on luck. What I mean by that is, basically, the whole movie
would not move if these secondary characters did not show up, in the nick of
time, to further their, already badly-explained, goals. The plot itself isn’t
funny. The funny parts focus a lot on Kevin Hart’s personality (not his
character’s) and those out-of-place moments that have literally nothing to do
with the story but interrupt it. Finally, a huge amount of the movie was easily
predictable. You could easily predict where the movie was going next, who was
going to appear when, how characters would react to something, etc. The plot
had no surprises whatsoever and that really took away from the experience a
bit. And the only good part about a predictable movie is the fact that you can
make all-winning bets with your friends on what comes next.
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