
Calvin Joyner was voted in high school the guy most likely to succeed. 20 years later he's an accountant. As his high school reunion approaches, he tries to make contact with his old schoolmates. And someone named Bob Stone contacts him. He says that he was known as Robbie Weirdicht in school. Calvin remembers that he was picked on, as a matter of fact after an extremely nasty prank he left school. They agree to meet and Calvin is surprised by how much he has changed. Bob ask... (Full plot summary below)
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Calvin Joyner was voted in high school the guy most likely to succeed. 20 years later he's an accountant. As his high school reunion approaches, he tries to make contact with his old schoolmates. And someone named Bob Stone contacts him. He says that he was known as Robbie Weirdicht in school. Calvin remembers that he was picked on, as a matter of fact after an extremely nasty prank he left school. They agree to meet and Calvin is surprised by how much he has changed. Bob asks Calvin to help him out. He says yes and the next thing he knows some men burst into his home. They're CIA, the one in charge is looking for Stone, she says he's a rogue agent. When they can't find Bob they leave. Later he approaches Calvin telling him, he is not a rogue agent, he's trying to find a person known as the Black Badger who is planning to sell some information that in the wrong hands can be disastrous. so he needs Calvin's help to stop him. Calvin's not sure whom he should believe.
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| HitFixDrew McWeenyCentral Intelligence manages to be a far more coherent comedy than I would have expected, and it’s a worthy representation of the genre. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderThe film is easy-going and often very funny - and when it's not funny, at least it's not irritating or stupid. (It's amazing how many comedies screw that part up.) |
| Illinois TimesCharles KoplinskiJohnson, Hart Generate Vital Chemistry in "Intelligence." |
| Fresno BeeRick BentleyThe main reason the movie works is the chemistry between Johnson and Hart. They are like Bud Abbott and Lou Costello on steroids. |
| The Film StageJordan RaupWhile it fails to deliver convincing action and its comedy feels watered down, Central Intelligence does get the “buddy” aspect correct. Doing their best with a script (also by Ike Barinholtz and David Stasser) that feels all-too-safe, Johnson and Hart manage to prove that a movie can glide by just enough on sheer charisma alone. |
| RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzThe best thing about this movie is that you believe in the relationship. Hart and Johnson are a classic comedy duo in the tradition of Abbott & Costello, Bob Hope & Bing Crosby and Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura Clifford...the movie works because of Johnson's childlike, huggable lug of a CIA agent, Thurber's action choreography and lots of bananas. |
| AV ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThat it manages to score a good laugh every couple of minutes is mostly a credit to stars Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, who make for a better mismatched-buddy comic duo than the movie probably deserves. |
| Family Home TheaterJames PlathHart and Johnson actually pair up nicely, and Central Intelligence is a fun action-comedy largely because of their antics and the chemistry that they manage. |
| BeliefnetNell MinowIt's a movie based on the sight gag of pairing man mountain former WWE star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson with pocket-sized pepperpot comic Kevin Hart. |