'Ride Along' Review

Entertainment

By Michael Poirier 

Husky Herald Reporter

   There are a lot of great movies that have come out over the years, not only in my lifetime, but in many lifetimes. 

  It is so hard to pick the best movie because there are so many amazing ones. I do know one good movie though, and that is Ride Along.

   Ride Along is about this guy named Ben who is a school security guard. He wants to marry his girlfriend, Angel. In order to marry his girlfriend, he has to get her brother’s approval who really does not like him. His name is James and he is the top detective in the Atlanta Police Department, so to show that Ben is worthy enough to marry Angela, James takes Ben on a ride along.

   This movie came out on January 17, 2014. I went out and saw it a few weeks ago and thought it was a very good movie.

   It has a very nice mix between action and comedy. It is one of my favorite types of genres.

   The movie has a runtime of 99 minutes. The budget for the movie was $25,000,000 and as of February 14 the movie made a gross income of $166,133,000.

   I took a look at a few reviews on some websites. On IMBd they gave the movie 6.4 out of 10 which I think is pretty low but on rottentomatoes.com it went even lower and gave the movie 4.2 out of 10.

   Then, the rating even gets lower on rogerebert.com and they give the movie two stars out of five which is equivalent to 4 out of 10.

   In my opinion these ratings are ridiculous and you shouldn’t listen to them. I feel like if you want to go see a hilarious action movie then you should be in the movie theater right now watching Ride Along.

   No movie with Kevin Hart in it should get a rating below an eight because he is one of the funniest people I have ever seen on TV and really captures what comedy is. So personally I would give this movie an 8.3 out of 10 rating because it was very funny and it is a movie I would definitely go to watch again.