My quick rating - 4,6/10. Recently released on Netflix if you would like to check it out. This flick follows the formula that you have seen a thousand times before to an absolute tee. The problem is it doesn't do it any better at all. We have middle-aged friends who are getting together for another birthday and each time are always trying to keep their youth intact. But one of them has matured and settled into being a family man (Kevin Hart) while the other one hasn't (Mark Wahlberg). This is the setup for nearly all the jokes in this one and the only thing the makers here tried to do was come up with asinine situations to put them in along the way. So how do you take two talented actors such as this and make a mediocre movie? Hand them a script that just doesn't do anything original or funny. Some of the funniest lines in this one don't even involve them. So Netflix apparently dropped some serious money to get them in this one although there might be some multi-movie deal on the table with them. I am hoping if so, they stop with the buddy comedy though since the two just didn't work all that well together. Spenser Confidential was entertaining enough for Wahlberg so I am good with more of that. I am losing focus on this review since there is so little to say about the flick. You get a 100 minutes of mostly futile attempts at humor that have all the budget needed to make a good flick. But beyond being a professional product, it just doesn't end up being all that entertaining. At least not for what I was hoping for from these two being the stars. Setting expectations for a movie is always a really bad idea and I should know better but sometimes it just happens before you even think about it. Oh well.
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