About Last Night

Name: About Last Night
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: February 14, 2014
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Adam Rodriguez, Bryan Callen, Christopher McDonald, Joe Lo Truglio, Joy Bryant

2014

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Screen Gems | Release Date: February 14, 2014 | R

Starring: Adam Rodriguez, Bryan Callen, Christopher McDonald, Joe Lo Truglio, Joy Bryant, Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy, Paula Patton, Regina Hall

Summary: This modern reimagining of the classic romantic comedy follows two couples as they journey from the bar to the bedroom and are eventually put to the test in the real world.

Director: Steve Pink

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 100 min

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Steve Persall

Feb 12, 2014

If this was December, Kevin Hart might be in the Oscar mix, he's that good in About Last Night. Explosively good, a comedy nova who won't shut up and never should. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Feb 13, 2014

The four leads are enormously likable and there’s still enough sharp, raunchy, sexy humor for me to recommend this version. Read full review

Claudia Puig

Feb 13, 2014

Frisky fun made all the more entertaining because of the potent chemistry between its quartet of lead actors. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Feb 13, 2014

In a rom-com, there's no rom without the com. Hart and Hall give it their all. Read full review

Peter Travers

Feb 14, 2014

Hart is a comic fireball. Don't leave till after the final credits when he and Hall bust a few more hilarious improv moves. Read full review

Peter Labuza

Feb 13, 2014

The actors give the proceedings a mostly quick-witted repartee that prevails over the occasionally stale script. Read full review

Ty Burr

Feb 13, 2014

Despite a frisky soundtrack that starts off with James Brown’s “Sex Machine” — trust me, it’s downhill from there — this is the visual equivalent of Muzak. You don’t have to see it to have seen it. Read full review

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shadowguy654

Oct 10, 2016

This movie is awesome. Yes I know some of it is predictable But it is a good movie.This movie is just awesome so awesome. This movie is funny as heck. I give this movie a 9.5/10.

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lukechristiansc

Oct 25, 2015

Corny and predictable but the film is self of aware of it but the performances by the four leads is witty,engaging and comical also sexy making us forget about the mistakes the film has made. The screenplay by Leslye Headland (Bachelorette) is smart and well paced also has an honest lookCorny and predictable but the film is self of aware of it but the performances by the four leads is witty,engaging and comical also sexy making us forget about the mistakes the film has made. The screenplay by Leslye Headland (Bachelorette) is smart and well paced also has an honest look relationships and director Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine) makes the film pretty and has perfect comedic timing. The talented Kevin Hart is great! He elevates the material that is given to him and makes it vigorous, not the mention the chemistry that him and Regina Hall (Scary Movie) is energetic and humorous which will give you hearty laughs watching them. Michael Ealy and Joy Bryant are natural and sexy chemistry, their acting is charming and I don't honestly don't care if their not even close to Hart and Hall. Grade A-… Expand

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LamontRaymond

Feb 15, 2014

A was very pleasantly surprised by how good this movie is. I know I saw the original years ago but couldn't remember any of it - so I had no real expectations. Michael Ealy is awesome (enjoy his stuff on Almost Human), and Kevin Hart is absolutely an A-list star now. His comedic deliveryA was very pleasantly surprised by how good this movie is. I know I saw the original years ago but couldn't remember any of it - so I had no real expectations. Michael Ealy is awesome (enjoy his stuff on Almost Human), and Kevin Hart is absolutely an A-list star now. His comedic delivery is impeccable. And his female counterpart Regina Hall absolutely rises to his level. Well... Nope, won't go there. Recommended!… Expand

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NightReviews

Feb 18, 2014

“It’s about what men say, it’s about what women think” yet, it has nothing new to say about the modern day man that we haven’t already seen nor does it give any new insight on the mentality of contemporary, independent women. Instead, About Last Night becomes a long and stretched out“It’s about what men say, it’s about what women think” yet, it has nothing new to say about the modern day man that we haven’t already seen nor does it give any new insight on the mentality of contemporary, independent women. Instead, About Last Night becomes a long and stretched out account, chronicling the relationships of two couples that goes well beyond the night, the morning, and a year into each others lives. Don’t be fooled, About Last Night is a confused and misguided Valentine’s Day centric romantic comedy with a few good laughs and some very absurd final act redemption.

The confusion of the Night begins well before any frames of the film are shown. First off, the film which is based off of David Mamet’s play titled Sexual Perversity in Chicago, takes place in Los Angeles. Mamet, a proud and notorious Chicagoan, has his battle of the sexes play butchered right from the writing process. By using the city of Chicago as an essential playground for the couple’s to question and argue their sense of regionalism, professionalism and their working class personas, the very fibers of the economic struggles each couple are facing never really comes to fruition on screen. Fine, I understand the film’s desire to modernize the source material, but for heaven’s sake don’t change the location! Much like anything Hollywood get’s their hands on, the film becomes an example of motion picture capitalism–which ironically defines the film’s leading male role perfectly.

So far, 2014 has been Kevin Hart’s year in theatres. From the box office success of January’s atrociously generic Ride Along (which somehow conquered the domestic box office for three weeks in a row) Hart quickly capitalizes on this comedy with a problematic, commercialized story of love, break-ups, make-ups, and elongated one night stands for a wholly commercial holiday audience. Hart, who delivers his Vince Vaughan-esque black comedy interpretation filled with prolonged and out-winded comedic rants, loud antics, and screeching punch-line deliveries, are some of the best and worst parts of the Night. I will admit, there are moments throughout the genuine “guys time” scenes where Hart and his calm blue-eyed co-star Michael Ealy, share some real laughs (some of the best comedy in the film next to the scenes Hart shares with Regina Hall), but for the films length, the laughs are too far and few between.

About Last Night has little to do with understanding one nights stands, and like many before it, becomes a comedy targeting couples and the consequential mistakes they make right from the start. From picturesque dog walks, to candle lit bathtubs and dental offices, to perfectly decorated balconies and work parties, About Last Night is the reason why normal guys, with normal jobs, and normal looks, never get the attention of the girl next door, and that sucks! While the film switches between lovestruck couples, following them through their relationship as they express lust, face common issues, and are at times manic examples of relationships doomed to fail, About Last Night looks it’s audience straight in the face and lies, giving the false hope that anything is possible, when it clearly is not–unless you have the perfect brick reveal LA apartment and a six-pack.

The film is centered around two couples; Bernie (Hart) and Joan (Regina Hall), and Danny (Ealy) and Debbie (Joy Bryant). When Bernie and Joan meet at a bar, which leads to a wild and adventurous night of debauchery, their friends Danny and Debbie tag-along to make their second meeting as normal as possible. But instead of cutting the tension, both Debbie and Danny fall in love with each other in the process. It is during Debbie and Danny’s deep love spell where the dynamics of Joan and Bernie’s relationship waver; breaking up or staying together, constantly bickering, awkward sex, and outrageous role-play; Bernie and Joan juxtapose the difference between physical relationships, against relationships that are deep, complex, and driven by emotion–much like Danny and Debbie’s. Instead of opting for a deep analysis of the mental strife that modern day American couples face, About Last Night becomes a wacky and romanticized montage of sex scenes. Thankfully, most of the scenes involving Hall and Hart are where Hart’s comedic hysteria and raunchiness shines, providing lengthy time periods of extreme, uncontrollable laughter.

Unfortunately for the film, the arguments escalate quickly, and sometimes out of thin air. The tension is quick-paced and the conflict is always rising, yet, the resolutions are even quicker, happening swiftly and without due thought. For most of it’s run-time, About Last Night becomes an overdrawn and lingering hangover of unwanted drama with unexplained happy endings.… Expand

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DCEdmonds

Nov 13, 2014

"About Last Night" 10 Scale Rating: 5.0 (Mediocre) ...

The Good: While his relationship with Joy Bryant was stale, Micheal Ealy was solid as usual. Kevin Hart and Regina Hall carried the movie however, and their relationship was far more interesting ... and funny. Ealy and Hart did an"About Last Night" 10 Scale Rating: 5.0 (Mediocre) ...

The Good: While his relationship with Joy Bryant was stale, Micheal Ealy was solid as usual. Kevin Hart and Regina Hall carried the movie however, and their relationship was far more interesting ... and funny. Ealy and Hart did an excellent job portraying buddies who are at very different places in their lives as some of the funnier scenes involve dialogue between the two of them.

The Bad: Unfortunately, the relationship that the film revolves around was uninteresting and boring. I just didn't care if they worked things out or not and several times found myself asking myself why they were together to begin with. The outcome is also way too neat and tidy, which seemed very unrealistic.… Expand

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SimpleMethod

Feb 24, 2014

None of the characters really play like real people. Kevin Hart was funny as always, but nobody else was particularly memorable. It wasn't terrible, just forgettable.

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RIZWANALVI

Apr 12, 2014

ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES I HAVE SEEN THIS YEAR. STICK TO WATCHING THE ORIGINAL ONE AND DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THIS UTTER NONSENSE. I SAY THIS AS A HUGE KEVIN HART FAN AND THESE TYPE OF MOVIES! LOVED THE ORIGINAL! :)

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