MJB784 It had some laughs in the beginning, but was mostly ugly and desperate. It was a very rushed looking movie. Basically, he gets sent to court for money fraud and has 30 days before jail, but instead of finding who's responsible for this, the movie is a series of skits associating stereotypes from Kevin Hart of who would be in jail and how to react. It was boring after a while.

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.

TownRootGuy Seriously, this is one of the stupidest movies ever made. In the making of this film, who could have possible thought, "Yeah, to make this is worth spending actual money."? Don't judge the stars based on this movie but definitely do avoid this crap.

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.