New Ride Along 2 Movie Got Mostly Negative Reviews From Top Critics

New Ride Along 2 movie got mostly negative reviews from top critics. Universal Pictures released their new comedy/action flick, “Ride Along 2,” into theaters today, January 15th, 2016, and all the reviews are in from the top movie critics in the biz. It turns out that most of them just didn’t like it, giving it an overall 32 score out of a possible 100 score across 24 reviews at Metacritic.com.

The movie stars: Benjamin Bratt, Bruce McGill, Ice Cube, Ken Jeong, Kevin Hart, Olivia Munn and Tika Sumpter. We’ve added comments from a few of the critics,below.

A.O. Scott from The New York Times, gave it a less than mediocre 50 score, saying: “This franchise is lucky to have Kevin Hart in that role, and his manic comic energy is enough to make the sequel something other than a complete waste of time. But the genre is also stubbornly innovation-proof, and there’s not much new to see here.”

Tom Russo over at the Boston Globe, gave it a 50 grade. He said: “You’ll have to be satisfied with a modest assortment of energetically comic moments here, because the story sure isn’t a reason to catch this encore, and neither are who-asked-for-’em cast additions such as Ken Jeong.”

Richard Roeper at the Chicago Sun-Times, gave it a 50 score. He said: “Ride Along 2 is the movie equivalent of a cover band. We’ve seen it all before, and often in much better films.”