Like some of the later Eddie Murphy buddy-cop comedies (Bevery Hills Cop III, Metro, Showtime), Central Intelligence feels like it's about a decade late to the prom. A comedy featuring two very different physical specimens, it puts the comedic actor Kevin Hart against the muscly former wrester Dwayne Johnson (formerly known as The Rock), and the result is an often tolerable, but never very funny movie about an espionage plot that's been done to death (only last year, Melissa McCarthy did it way better in Spy). Hart and Johnson argue, they engage in high octane action chases and leaps from high rise buildings, and then even avoid plenty of bullets fired at them, but they never once create a duo that we'd want to see again. For all its marketing efforts in which we're led to believe that these two are the future of buddy-cop action comedies, somehow they should've supplied their charismatic leads a script worthy of their talents, because as written by Ike Barinholtz, David Stassen and Rawson Marshal Thurber, it comes across as a mediocre TV episode of a lame detective show, without much cleverness or wit.
C-
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