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

It's a typically absurd, exaggerated spiel but with a grim undertone that resonates later on, so that Ben's desperate efforts to make something of himself seem not entirely a laughing matter.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2014

An action-comedy short on both action and comedy, this turgid dirge recycles all the usual mismatched cop-couple cliches (from 48 Hours to Cop Out) with dreary results.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 2, 2014

As buddy movies go, this is strictly formulaic fare but it elicits a few laughs along the way thanks to the relentless goofing of Kevin Hart.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 28, 2014

The inappropriately namedTim Story looks to have grabbed his script from the "plot" section of the service station while racing to a meeting for which he had not properly prepared.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 28, 2014

Ice Cube is a man with two expressions, while Hart has become a ubiquitous presence.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 28, 2014

Romantic chemistry is rare in the movies, comic chemistry rarer still, and sadly there isn't much on offer in this action buddy comedy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 27, 2014

The impression is very much that director Tim Story has shaken down the genre for its most hackneyed ingredients and whisked them carelessly together.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 27, 2014

A butch and uncompromising assault of mediocrity and dj vu.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 27, 2014

Ride Along is saddled with an uninvolving plot, and largely content to coast on cop-movie clichs.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 25, 2014

The most truthful answer is friendly but unexciting: They're OK. They're pretty good.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 4, 2014

As a comedian [Hart] has been begging for Hollywood's attention for five years. He has it now, but you've got to believe he can do better than this.

| Feb 3, 2014

This routine buddy picture offers plenty of instant gratification (Cube and Hart are easygoing screen presences, and many of their one-liners are funny) but shows little concern for characterization, storytelling, or even comic pacing.

| Jan 23, 2014

Since the film's largely schematic subplot about Serbian gunrunners can't manage much in the way of originality, it's fortunate that Story knows his way around a comedy.

| Jan 21, 2014

Ride Along has the dubious distinction of being simultaneously shoddy and straining, lazy and desperate.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 20, 2014

Hart's springy energy and Ice Cube's deadpan snarl can be amusing, but they can't compensate for weak material.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 17, 2014

Cube scowls. Hart gabs incessantly. The two are reduced to the likes of a growling bear and a yapping parakeet that get no assist from a screenplay as nuanced as a parking ticket.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 17, 2014

An Ice Cube and Kevin Hart comedy that will probably be in a Rite-Aid discount bin in about six months.

| Jan 17, 2014

If you're a fan of pint-size motormouth Kevin Hart's stand-up comedy, you're likely to have fun with this. Just don't go looking for a motion picture with credible characters or an overly involving story.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 17, 2014

[Most] of the movie is a wash of buddy cop clichs and double crosses that aren't worth the cocktail napkin they were jotted on.

| Original Score: C | Jan 17, 2014