He can't act, he isn't funny, and he's a caricature of a black movie character from the 90s .

You know, being stupid, making funny faces, flailing his arms, big grins - just when we thought Samuel Jackson, Denzel Washington and others had gotten us rid of that century old portrayal of black people as silly jesters .

Eddy Murphy was like that, but at least he had his stand-up comedy to somewhat balance his carreer , and it was different times in a way .

It's also a bad movie for other reasons, like poor screenwriting, mediocre camera work and editing, and a budget as meagre as the competence of its creators .

"Die Hart" feels like an overly long youtube video that just happens to have famous actors on it. It is very cheaply made (there are scenes where you can actually see the lighting change shot to shot), the plot is nonsense, and it just feels like a bunch of friends got together to lazily throw something together for fun. The only upsides are a couple of funny jokes and the runtime being relatively short.

For some reason imdb keeps bumping the word count limit so other than what I mentioned above -- Kevin Hart needs some new material: he's playing himself yet again, the self-deprecating stuff is starting to come off as insecure, and he mentioned being from Philadelphia like 8 times in 90 minutes.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is a action super star, who can easily move between violence and humour. His physical size has been repeatedly used as a central joke; at six foot five, he's over a foot taller than Kevin Hart - Dwayne literally has Kevin in his lap in Central Intelligence - with the resentment between the two being a central part of their multiple films.

And this film is supposedly the result of Kevin constantly being cast as that side kick and needing to prove himself as more of an action lead, resulting in plenty of jokes at his expense, particularly coming from Travolta, as the hard assed action star coach in a role (reminiscent of Gabriel Shear in Swordfish). He puts Kevin through his paces so that he can land a role with famous director Claude Van Der Velde (Jean Reno).

But it feels like a sketch (or rather a series of sketches) stretched out into a film length series. The jokes are telegraphed and once you know the secret the story becomes even more predictable. The only head scratcher is what actually happened to Josh Hartnett, given the end of the film...