A fun premise that recalls Trading Places: Get Hard review and trailer
IN GET HARD a smarmy financier James King (Will Ferrell), petrified at being sent to jail for embezzlement, hires a cash-strapped black man, Darnell Lewis (Kevin Hart), who he mistakenly assumes to have done time, to coach him.
Get Hard
(15, 100mins)
Director: Etan Cohen
Stars: Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart
It’s a fun premise that recalls Trading Places: entitled white man is forced to collaborate with a poor black man and realises how the system is skewed against the poor.
Get Hard Official Trailer #1 (2015) - Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart Movie HD
There are some amusing early scenes as Ferrell radiates smugness - so disregarding of his staff he parades nude through the house of a morning - but the man is too much of a buffoon to take seriously; not helped by Ferrell’s peculiar likeness to George W. Bush.
You don’t believe he could fill a piggy bank let alone earn millions.
Hart is more effective as the respectable family man who poses tough but the jokes are weak and repetitive, mostly revolving around King’s terror of sodomy. Trading Places it ain’t.
