Central Intelligence's reviews
Media reviews
Roger Ebert
The 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.
Los Angeles Times
'Central Intelligence' is dumb in all the right ways, and also a bit smarter than you might expect. It jams together two frequently incompatible Hollywood modes ? the comedy and the action movie.
Hitfix
'Central Intelligence' manages to be a far more coherent comedy than I would have expected, and it?s a worthy representation of the genre.
Fotogramas
Battery gags great comic potential of getting inject fluidity to the proposal (...) Final reaffirmation that The Rock has become a great actor with a humorous vis apotheosis.
New York Post
Sure, no one was expecting Shakespeare, but the best action-comedies manage wit even in the midst of mayhem, a combo director Rawson Marshall Thurber seems incapable of pulling off.
The Washington Post
No doubt some of this was improvised, but the script, by Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen, is also efficient and light, revelling in its broad comedy, complete with bathroom humor and pratfalls.
Time Out
Thank the movie gods for Dwayne Johnson, who delivers a performance of such charm, such unexpected goofiness that the screen practically glows every time he appears.
El Periódico
Its story plot is tedious, and shootouts and chases are as insipid as incomprehensible. But on the other hand, Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart make a perfect comedy duo.
The A.V. Club
That 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.
New York Times
An odd-couple caper of staggering dopeyness that makes you long for the snap and sizzle of the buddy movies of the 1980s, (...) is a clean-out-the-fridge soup of celebrity cameos and C.I.A. confusion.
Empire
The comedy isn?t up to much, either: scenes plod on and on with the slack editing of an Apatow improv-fest, only without the jokes.
ABC
No more than the classic American comedy (...) It's the first time that [The Rock and Kevin Hart] come together and although the script slides again and again, between both minimally secure the product.
El Mundo
There isn't substantial novelties, but the show action is above the average, like humor.
Chicago Sun-Times
'Central Intelligence' is one of those slick, gunplay-riddled, stupidly plotted, aggressively loud buddy movies ? so formulaic and dumb, even if you see it you?ll probably forget you?ve seen it.
El País
Just by subscribing to the most anticipated records of the action comedy. With more functional sequences that accurate and mechanical routine action of buddy movie .
Cinemanía
Graft meets only moderately with regard to the laughter (...) and bored to yawn in what touches to the shots and persecution.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote