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Netflix Movie Review: 72 Hours

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The world has known for years that Kevin Hart is one of the best stand-up comedians of all time. More impressive is the years of dues he has paid to rise to the top of the entertainment industry, now as a producer and the head of his own production company, “Hartbeat,” and with a net worth of 400 million dollars.

Unfortunately, his habit of making very bad comedy movies on Netflix continues, with the latest release, “72 Hours”. While watching this waste of two hours, I was amazed that Hart or any of the other cast members could have read this screenplay and then agreed to make the movie. Just about all of the attempts at comedy failed throughout this film, including – once again – the telltale sign of a bad movie – the projectile vomiting over other people scene. Someone, somewhere in the entertainment industry, still thinks that a huge amount of vomiting is funny in a movie. It’s even funnier when someone profusely vomits all over other people. Kevin Hart has had too many of these scenes in his movies; this one is one of the all-time worst.

Kevin Hart stars as Joe Nixon, who is an up and coming advertizing executive who has had a few bad campaigns lately. The plan is to connect Joe with some young men in their 20s so he can learn what they like. These four young men are played by three cast members of Saturday Night Live, Ben Marshall (Hunter), Kam Patterson (Freshman), Marcello Hernández (Nick), and their friend who is about to be married, Mason, played by Mason Gooding. None of the attempted humorous scenes and personal connections with Joe Nixon and these younger men worked. The humor is crude, in some cases disgusting, with nothing humorous. Most amazing about this arguably the worst Kevin Hart Netflix comedy movie is that it took four screenwriters to write it: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, Kevin Burrows, and Matt Mider. Joe Nixon is also having problems with his girlfriend, Jennifer, played by Teyana Taylor – which is a sub-story that seemed more about making the movie last closer to two hours.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings are an accurate, very low 14% – with my rating 1% and a must-miss-this-bad-movie recommendation.

Netflix Movie Review: Me Time

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Some months ago, in a conference room for some Netflix production meeting, someone said, lets just pair up Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg in some story, some idea. It doesnt matter what that idea is. This does not need a script – we will make money just based on name recognition from two very bankable stars. And so it goes. Q rating over quality. Bankable name recognition over any semblance of a good idea.

The new Netflix movie “Me Time” starring Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg is so bad, that fast forward is your best friend. This film is 100% unwatchable, one of the worst movies I have ever seen. So bad that once again, there is an intense vomiting scene where Kevin Hart eats something bad and vomits all over an outdoor restaurant. For some reason, over the years, too many of the wrong people in charge think that vomiting is funny. Vomiting is disgusting and never funny. Vomiting in a big way in any scene within a bad movie will never rescue that film. As I have said in the past on this web site,vomiting within a bad movie is always a tell tale sign that the film will be horrific. Me Time is yet another example of this phenomenon. This also happened in Kevin Hart’s last bad Netflix movie, “The Man from Toronto” – that included yet another grotesque vomiting scene.

Kevin Hart is arguably one of the greatest stand up comedians of all time, but he has still not made a good “comedy” movie – other than his concert movies, which were all outstanding. The problem here is long term degredation over time might ruin Hart’s comedy movie career. However his serious roles in some recent movies have been overall good, so maybe the obvious solution is, do not make another bad comedy movie and stick with the serious ones.

The bad story of Me Time is about two old friends, played by Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg reuniting for a series of idiotic attempted physical comedy events that even include Hart almost being killed by a Mountain Lion – now how funny is that? Regina Hall plays Kevin Hart’s wife, and its a wonder why she took this small role within a horrendous unfunny comedy movie.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for this horrendous garbage are a very low 6% and I agree with this rating and rate this movie a “run for your life” big miss.

Netflix Movie Review: The Man from Toronto

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Kevin Hart is one of the best standup comedians to come around in decades. His rhythm, story telling and comedic timing is always about the best there is. Years ago Hart would release his standup acts as a movie and as far as comedy, these films are his best. Unfortunately as far as Hart releasing a comedy movie that even comes close matching to his talent as a standup comedian, this has not happened yet. Part of this is creating a great comedy screenplay is very rare and the other part is, perhaps Hart is better off just doing standup movies when it comes to comedy.

Hart has made several very good serious movies over the years including “The Upside” with Brian Cranston and most recently “Fatherhood” released on Netflix. A better career path would be to continue with the serious roles, considering how bad the new movie “The Man from Toronto” is.

The story of The Man from Toronto is that Hart is mistaken for a hit man played by Woody Harrelson. Being mistaken from a criminal or killer has been done several times in Hart’s past movies, including the two “Ride along” movies made with Ice Cube. We have all seen this idea too many times, with Hart trying to act like he is a killer that has never been funny. How this mistaken identity happens has to do with printer toner that gives Hart’s character the wrong address to a cabin at a resort, where he is mistaken for Harrelson. Considering that Hart is a short black man and Harrelson is a normal height white man, this mistaken identity given their considerable physical differences makes the entire idea more implausible just due to word of mouth with the other criminals involved. The remaining movie are several well done fight scenes, explosions, chase scenes and a retread of what we have all seen too many times before.

There is the standard movie-vomit-scene where Hart’s character vomits all over two people with the ongoing mysterious belief from too many directors where this is seen as something funny to throw into bad movie. In no movie is someone vomiting on someone else going to make it better. As a matter of fact too much vomiting is a tell-tale sign that this is yet another very bad film.

Other famous actors in this movie include Ellen Barkin and Kaley Cuoco and given their small parts and this bad script its a wonder why they both agreed to make this film.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for this Netflix movie are a very low 25% and unfortunately I do agree with this assessment and do not recommend this movie.