This movie had the promise of great special effects and a world-wide alien invasion. The trailers for this movie looked impressive but unfortunately the only good special effects are in the beginning and few and far between the rest of the way.  The middle of this movie is more like a soap opera with some attempted twists and turns along the way, but for the most part this is a pretty boring 2 hours.  I originally wondered why this was not a summer movie release and some kind of a block buster. Very soon in this movie you realize why its a January release movie and more like a B movie than something that could be considered impressive.

The idea behind the 5th wave is that the first wave is that the aliens cut off all power, then they create massive earthquakes and tsunami’s, then they modify a bird virus to wipe out most of the human race, the 4th wave is the arrival of the aliens who can take over the body of a human and then pitting humanity against itself to wipe out the world. The concept of all of this is believeable but the movie comes off as stupid and boring overall because the story is just not compelling enough to hold your attention for the whole two hours. There is a love story that is somewhat interesting and the actress Chloe Grace Moretz   is very believable in her role, but she is not enough to save this movie.

I cannot recommend the 5th Wave.

Chloë Grace Moretz

A few years ago, the Oscar’s decided to have as many as 10 movies that could be nominated for best picture. This year for some reason, only 8 movies were nominated which eliminated great movies like Concussion and Joy from the list of this years best pictures. Considering the decision to have 10 movies in the list some years ago, why wasn’t a similar decision made for all the acting categories, allowing for as many as 10 actors per category to be potentially nominated?

Very simply, if the major categories in the Oscar’s did not have a limit of 5 then this years Boycott of the Oscar’s because no black actors or movies directed by black directors were nominated this year. Clearly, its wrong that Will Smith in Concussion was not nominated for Best Actor along with Michael B. Jordan in Creed and several other omissions even within the limit of 5 nominees. Many errors were made with this years Oscar nominations and many errors have been made in the past, but by just expanding the number of people just like w

The easiest movies to any movie reviewer to review are comedies.  The reason why its so easy to review movies like this is because you have the sound of audience feedback, the laughter you hear in the audience to reinforce your opinion that the movie is either funny or not funny. If the movie is funny then people will laugh, if the movie is not funny then there is silence. Unfortunately, for Ride Along 2, like Ride Along there just were not enough funny scenes or dialog to agree that the movie is funny.  After almost 2 hours there was only one scene in a car where Kevin Hart’s character and Jen Jeong’s character are talking about Star Wars and other issues and Ice Cube and Olivia Munn are in the front seat making faces because the conversation is so annoying.  This scene works for the most part because of the relentless ranting from 2 nerds talking about nerdy things and you know the “shut up” is coming at the end.  Unfortunately for this movie, this is the only time I noticed some laughing in the audience.

As I have said about other movies that Kevin Hart has been involved with, he is a very good stand up comedian, but much too often his movies are not funny or too plain average and because he is in so many movies this may catch up with him soon because he is in way too many movies. In my opinion, Kevin should take some time off for a while and concentrate on his stand up act because this is another pretty boring and average movie.

Ice Cube’s character in this movie, as he was in the last movie and most of his other movies is always in a bad mood and the question is, how long can we have Ice Cube getting annoyed at Kevin Hart before it gets old. Odds are high that there will be a “Ride Along 3” but you just have to figure that after the 3rd movie in this series comes out that people will finally get tired of the moody angry Ice Cube character and the relentlessly annoying Kevin Hart character and this will finally be put to bed.

Mainly because this movie is not funny enough, I cannot recommend it.

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