Unlimitedia Sick Product of a Sick System

Micitype Pretty Good

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

juneebuggy If you're a fan of Will Ferrell or Kevin Hart and in the right mood this is very entertaining. Many LOL moments (the shank in the head) as we follow the obscenely rich Farrell as he's convicted of fraud and sentenced to time in a maximum security prison. With a month to get his affairs in order 'James' hires Hart, a man he just assumes is an ex-con to coach him on surviving his incarceration. 'Darnell' puts James through the motions and the movie comes close to crossing the line with racism humour and a lot of buggery jokes. Although I felt they were making fun of both, whatever its a very juvenile style comedy and I got some laughs.

sakram Get Hard is simple, it contains some second-level seen-before drama but handled pretty good because of the dialogue and the concept and most importantly the lead actors, if it weren't for Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell this movie would've fallen onto the abyss. But thank god, it delivered such a good experience that didn't leave so much to be desired.7/10

sol- Framed for a white collar crime, a wealthy pompous buffoon hires an African American acquaintance to train him for prison life in this Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart comedy vehicle. 'Get Hard' is not exactly a high concept movie and Ferrell's character trajectory is fairly predictable from the get-go, however, the film offers a surprisingly large amount of laughs with Hart in fine form and Edwina Findley Dickerson sassy as his wife. A memorable scene has Hart and Ferrell mistaken for a gay couple with their use of the title phrase out of context, though Hart's training sequences are what stand out most vividly afterward. In a kooky touch, Ferrell allows Hart to turn his mansion into a makeshift prison as part of the training, complete with bars, phone queue and moody inmates (played with relish by Ferrell's disgruntled servants). Hart also has an awesome scene in which he pretends to be three different courtyard criminals at once - something that confuses Ferrell so much that he begins genuinely conversing with all three personae as if they were in fact three different people. The film unfortunately runs out of steam around halfway in with only so much humour possible from Ferrell's bungled attempts to act tough. Ferrell's "unorthodox style of cussing" (as Hart describes it) also grows incredibly irksome as the film wears on. The climax on board a yacht is pretty well done though with all of Ferrell's training finally paying off. Craig T. Nelson additionally makes for a pitch perfect smarmy antagonist even if his crookedness is telegraphed from a little too early in the proceedings.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Get Hard" is a very simple title for this 100-minute movie from last year and it is also a very simple film I dare say. Don't be fooled by the director's name, he has nothing to do with the Coen Bros. And what I find the most shocking here is the number of writers who worked on this project. How can so many people not realize that the script is pretty bad and try to improve it. Oh well.. I guess they did and just couldn't do anything about it as they don't have the talent. You cannot really blame lead actors Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart as it is basically impossible to turn this screenplay into a quality movie, no matter how good their performance would be, not that they were particularly good though. I believe this film is just another on in the endless line of films that exist that were really only made to get some cash and not with any creative ambition at all. I am almost a bit embarrassed to say that I somewhat liked the idea of a rich white man who has to go to jail and a black man trying to get him ready for it, even if it is all very absurd of course. There was some comedic potential in here and I believe a skilled writer could have turned this into a decent watch. But he would need to be way better than the people who worked on this one here. I just hope they won't make a sequel anytime soon, no idea if this was successful enough commercially, but if so they will for sure. That's how it works sadly. I don't care about it though. "Get Hard" was a really weak film. Stay away.