An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but, somehow, I stil ended up watching the damned thing though. Basically, it turned out to be some kind of awkward and misguided riff on 'Trading Places' and, even if it wasn't really awful, it was still pretty weak though. It also reminded me of Adam Sandler's work (which is definitely not a compliment) with this main character acting seriously offensive and discriminative all the time but, at the end, it turned out after all that he actually had a heart of gold which was supposed to make his previous appalling behaviour somehow suddenly acceptable. Concerning the humor, I really believe that Will Ferrel and Kevin Hart both can be really funny though. However, there was not much they could do with this material. Indeed, one of them was basically playing a really stupid white man and the other one was playing a slightly less stupid black man and, again, as displayed many times by Adam Sandler during his career, stupid characters are almost always more annoying than actually entertaining. Was there any possibility that this terrible concept could have actually worked anyway? It's difficult to tell. I mean, by getting a whole bunch of menacing tattoos and taking some actual real self-defence courses, maybe? It was also rather pathetic how, during the very last few days, they eventually took a massive U-turn and decided they would after all solve this case which they obviously did way too easily. Seriously, it made everything that happened before even more pointless than it already was. Anyway, to conclude, it seemed to be doomed right from the start and maybe we should be thankful that it didn't turn out to be even worse but it is pretty obvious that you should avoid the damned thing though. 

5/10