This review is long over-due, the movie released in late March 2015 and I just saw it in late June. I said in my post of this movie's trailer, that there was a 50/50 chance of it being a comedy classic OR another one of WIll Ferrell's failed attempts at making a funny comedy. You can never be sure with him, but I'm a fan of Kevin Hart and I liked the premise of the movie. So, I was very open-minded when watching this movie and I ended up very impressed.
Will Ferrell plays "James King", a wealthy, naive, stock broker who gets framed for fraud and money laundering. The judge decides to make an example of this silver-spooned, white collar billionaire and sentences him to 10 years at San Quentin prison. He also gives him 30 days to get his affairs in order before turning himself in to serve his sentence. .
So, out of pure, naive, prejudice, "James King" asks the only black guy he knows to help him get prepared. As a wealthy, upper-class, white man, he has no idea about prison or how things work when you're behind bars. All he knows is the TRUE statistic that 1 out of every 3 black men end up incarcerated at least once in their lifetime. So he assumes Kevin Hart's character; "Darnell" is an ex-con. "James" is too dumb and naive to see that "Darnell" is obviously NOT a thug or hardened ex-con (It's Kevin Hart for F*ck sake!) and he offers him $30 thousand dollars to teach him about prison, rather than using his last 30 days of freedom trying to find out who framed him in the first place. It's actually a super funny movie with a good ending, cool plot and cool co-stars like "T,I" and Allison Brie (in lingerie!).
Not to mention, it was directed and produced by Ethan Cohen, who has brought us movies like, "Tropic Thunder" and "Idocracy" (2 of my favorite movies). Not to be confused with Ethan Coen (the Coen brothers). Like almost ALL of Will Ferrell movies, it's a "Gary Sanchez Film", but this is his first time working with Ethan Cohen and together, they made a pretty damn good movie - I give "Get Hard" a 7 /10.
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