Me Time (2022)

Me Time (2022)

 3/10

 

Starring

Kevin Hart

Mark Wahlberg

 

Directed by John Hamburg

 

You get the feeling Netflix is scraping the bottom of the barrel for anything that might stick as a good movie for people to talk about. This one doesn’t make any sense at all. The entire concept of the movie is drowned out by what writer and director John Hamburg thinks qualifies as funny. Add mediocre acting—like every main cast member was exhausted and just trying to survive the last hour of a stressful shift—and you’ve got a dud.

A grown man taking a dump on someone else’s bed? I know the Amber Heard situation was bizarre, but that incident wasn’t funny, and neither is this. If this is what passes as humor now, it shows just how desperate they were to cobble something together.

This movie feels like an overused rag that should’ve been tossed out but was instead dragged out one more time, now with stains all over it, still failing to do the job.

The plot follows two old friends, Sonny and Huck (played by Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg, respectively). Huck has a tradition of getting Sonny to do crazy things with him on his birthday. After three years apart, Sonny has become a stay-at-home dad while Huck continues to live the wild life.

For Huck’s 44th birthday, he invites Sonny to join the festivities. Sonny, now boring and stuck in his routine, is hesitant, but his wife insists he go. She wants a chance to bond with their kids without him around. Sonny finally agrees to take some “Me-Time” while his wife takes the kids to her parents.

What follows is the wild ride Huck has planned for his birthday. Along the way, we discover there’s more to Huck than meets the eye—he’s hiding something critical from Sonny.

The plot is painfully predictable, with the only twist being just how much more predictable it can get.

I’m honestly at the point where I don’t want to watch anything on Netflix for a while. It’s going to take something amazing to make me forget this movie ever existed.

Kevin Hart is clearly just coasting these days, pumping out movies with the bare minimum effort. Casting him and Wahlberg together for this was a complete waste of money, especially for a script that should’ve been nothing more than a 10-minute skit.

The movie is streaming on Netflix, but I’d recommend finding an old series to rewatch instead. Your chances of making it through this without falling asleep are slim. If the boredom doesn’t get you, the stupidity on screen will.