Some elements were cheesy or unnecessary but it plays to the strengths of both Hart and Ice Cube. Again, forgive it’s traditional flaws and you can enjoy this movie for what it was. And for January, Ride Along is more than serviceable.

| Aug 12, 2024

Ride Along plays out like the buddy action comedy that Ice Cube and Chris Tucker never made outside of the Friday franchise. Instead of Tucker, though, Ice Cube is paired with the equally excitable loudmouth Kevin Hart.

| Jan 22, 2022

Standard-format American cop comedy, where an intractable veteran (Ice Cube) is forced to suffer a day on the job in the company of his distractable brother-in-law-to-be (Kevin Hart).

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 20, 2020

The film's only joy, unless you actually enjoy Hart's mania, is watching master thespian Laurence Fishburne.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 21, 2020

Moderately funny, "Ride Along" never progressing beyond its basic gag.

| Original Score: C | Jul 8, 2020

If your eardrums can take it, Ride Along is perfectly inoffensive, incredibly unrealistic, adequately paced, completely forgettable, and (somehow) a massive success Stateside.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 8, 2019

When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object you get Ride Along, the seldomfunny buddy movie starring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Apr 17, 2019

This is a film rife with buddy comedy/opposites collide/fish-out-of-water clichés that by now have been done to death and so fail to really register on any level let alone a comedy one.

| Mar 7, 2019

This is a painfully predictable action comedy that wastes the talents of everyone involved.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 1, 2019

There's nothing more painful to sit through than an unfunny comedy, and though Ride Along is far from the worst example of this it is excruciating at points.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 1, 2018

This was made for those of you looking for a fun time at the theater, with a little action and belly laughs mixed in.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Oct 12, 2018

It brings a few genuinely amusing moments that entertain, but lacks the ammunition needed to keep the laughs going throughout.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 14, 2018

Ride Along will at the very least entertain despite any inherent contrivances.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 21, 2016

The movie misses the opportunity to exploit the comedic chemistry between it's leads. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 2, 2016

[Leads] off with the most poorly shot and edited chase scene in recent memory... so spatially confusing that it might as well have been shot through a kaleidoscope.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 17, 2016

The movie isn't loose enough to let Kevin Hart run wild with sustained riffs; he's trapped inside the stodgy, stifling structure.

| Original Score: C | Jul 14, 2015

( ... ) even with four scriptwriters on the case it's still full of the usual stereotypes and lazy, bad-boy clichs - all glued together with a rather bombastic score.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2014

Nothing in the movie makes sense, but I prefer to think that "Ride Along" is just a badly told joke, rather than an insult to its audience.

| Sep 22, 2014

Just because I laughed doesn't mean Ride Along is a good movie.

| Original Score: 4.0/10 | Aug 11, 2014

Director Tim Story puts a competent visual polish on Ride Along, but it's simply not funny or action-packed enough to warrant a recommendation.

| Original Score: C- | May 28, 2014