By Emilio Frenk
Directors: Leslie Small and Tim Story
Cast: Kevin Hart, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Ed Helms and David Meunier.
Rating: Average.
Kevin Hart, one of the most seen comedians in the last years brings “Kevin Hart: What Now?. I´m going to start that I´m not a big fan of his humour but they are some bits of the film that they were funny.
The movie starts with a parody of Kevin Hart portraying a some kind of James Bond figure with her sidekick Halle Berry where Hart is playing cards and wins a bet.
After the game, he fights the villains in an homage to the film “The Equalizer” with Denzel Washington. He defeats them and now he has to get ready to his show in The Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that took place in August 30th of last year.
Now Hart is on stage doing his stand up comedy in front of a sold out football field entertaining every single human being present.
The take that I liked on “Kevin Hart: What Now? was that the movie combine a decent sketch and then went straight forward to the show Kevin Hart performed.
The movie reminds me of “Eddie Murphy Raw” and other sketches of comedians like the late Richard Pryor. This wasn´t even close.
There were moments in Kevin Hart´s humour that they were too much and he can be annoying. I understand the humour that he manages and I admit that he can be really funny and in a certain way I believe he is talented.
I also understand that half of the movie is the show but it could have been shorter.
On the other hand I do admit that it was very well shot and edited and how the approach of documentary and comedy did work.
As someone who does like stand up comedy I´ve seen better shows than this one but at the other hand for Kevin Hart fans I do think you are going to like this film and I recommend at that side point.
As a critic I was not impressed and I felt the movie pretty slow and it’s one of the reasons I cannot recommend it.