Me Time

John Hamberg writes and directs this new Netflix “comedy”. Kevin Hart is Sonny a dedicated husband and father, who does the important job of bringing up the kids, and running the home to support his wife Maya’s (Regina Hall) successful career as an architect. Sonny is more than happy, however, when his best friend Huck (Mark Wahlberg) gets in touch asking him to join him for his 44th birthday, he finds himself pressured by his wife to go do it and take some me time, so she can get some time with the kids. The thing is when he gets with Huck things get crazy and when he is convinced that one of Maya’s clients is making a move on her. He and Huck fight back, which does, unsurprisingly, not go to plan.

There is an idea that Netflix make films based on their algorithms. Well if that’s true and it creates Me Time, you need a new algorithm. The theory of it is fine. Hart, Wahlberg and Hall are all good comedic performers, so if you put them in a story structure that has worked before (many times before!) then it will work, right? Wrong, you get rubbish like this.

You know almost immediately where this is going and how badly it’s going to struggle getting there. Hart, Wahlberg and Regina Hall are all reprising roles from elsewhere and that’s the problem you’ve just seen it all before. But that’s okay surely it is at least funny, ah if only. There was maybe two laugh out loud moments and one of those is in the trailer.

The plot is non existent or if it exists, despite Hart’s best efforts, I lost interest in trying to figure it out after about 5 minutes.

Me Time is exactly the film you expect. Just the worst version of it. It’s derivative, dull and just not funny. All the main cast play exactly who you expect and have seen them do in other films. To be honest this is so dull, my advice is go watch any other Kevin Hart or Mark Wahlberg film instead, yes any!