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In theaters: June 17, 2016
On DVD or streaming: September 27, 2016
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Studio: Warner Bros.
Genre: Action/Adventure
Topics: Friendship
Run time: 114 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13
MPAA explanation: crude and suggestive humor, some nudity, action violence and brief strong language
Central Intelligence
MOVIE REVIEW
The film is a buddy action comedy in the vein of "The In-Laws" and "Midnight Run," with a splash of 1930s movie slapstick. Kevin Hart plays Calvin Joyner, a deadpan worrywart who was voted "Most Likely to Succeed" in high school. He has a good job and a charming wife but still feels like a failure. Dwayne Johnson plays his old high school classmate, Robert Weirdicht, aka Bob Stone, a bullied fat kid who grew up to become a muscular CIA agent but still wears a fanny pack and can't stop talking about "Sixteen Candles."
Central Intelligence reinforces some surprisingly poignant messages for a goofy buddy film of this ilk. Namely, the importance of kindness, friendship and keeping what matters most in life in perspective. There's an earnest tenderness here that sets these proceedings apart from the unrelenting nastiness indulged by so many other entries in the genre.
En route to those messages, however, Central Intelligence takes some sadly predictable detours. Harsh profanity litters the script. An overweight teen's bare backside is exploited for cheap laughs several times. There are crass conversations about pornography, strippers and many more. The PG-13 film even turns torture and tearing someone's throat out into jokes.
The most scene I like is a kitchen fight in "Central Intelligence" pitting a man with a butcher knife against a man with a banana. The man with the banana wins. I love scenes like this, where the movie seems to be saying, "This is the kind of movie I am the kind where you can kill a man with a banana. Enjoy."
This movie should be watched .This will definitely make you laugh when you watch this movie.
This movie should be watched .This will definitely make you laugh when you watch this movie.
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