Central Intelligence

Kevin Hart plays his usual wise-cracking persona in this surprisingly entertaining movie.  The revelation for me was the presence of Dwayne Johnson.  I loved his unicorn shirt wearing, fanny pack carrying, and  John Hughes movie loving FBI agent. The plot isn’t much, but honestly, I didn’t mind.  Dwayne’s character was bullied in high school and Kevin’s character, the popular kid, comes to his rescue.  The film takes place twenty years later.  Now the bully is a secret agent and the popular kid has become a dull accountant.  The way they are thrown together to save the world is very contrived, but funny. Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy have small but pivotal supporting roles.  I dare you not to laugh when  “prescription pants” are mentioned.