Movie movie: Hart delivers in new goofball action comedy

Meaningless puns aside, this new Kevin Hart movie is a hit. However, this is not really a surprise in view of the fact that Director Patrick Hughes, the guy who brought you The Hitman's Bodyguard films, was behind this Hart-ening (that’s the last pun, sorry) movie.

Netflix’s The Man from Toronto comes at you hard with Hart and Woody Harrelson, the latter as the deadly hitman while Hart plays a vacuum-brained dude who accidentally creates a scenario that gets him confused as the assassin.

The usual buddy comedy plotline underlines how these two go from enemies to begrudging allies in an adventure that is sure to leave you laughing while holding on for the ride with its adrenaline-filled action sequences.

Teddy and Toronto Pulse

Speaking of plotlines, let’s take a stab at this one.

It starts with Teddy Jackson (Hart) talking into the camera, making videos for fitness followers who are as absent as the abs in a picture sent to you by Gen. Kahinda Otafiire.

Anyway, as tries to sell his signature workout techniques like Teddy Burn, Teddy Bar, and Teddy Bands, he gets hurt (pronounced as Hart by Uganda’s phony-accented pastors) in the process.

As this is comedy of errors is happening, somewhere in Utah, a guy called Toronto (Harrelson) arrives at a cabin to perform an interrogation from Hell.

Laying out his knives in readiness to do so, he tells the terrified guy tied up on a chair how he watched his grandfather get filleted by a bear and what lessons he drew from this ghastly episode.

Yeah, you know the drill.

The terrified starts talking like his mouth is battery-charged, thereby contrasting Toronto’s results-oriented work rate with Teddy’s inability to do anything right.

Teddy, however, may be on the wrong track professionally but he tries to do something right as his wife Lori’s (Jasmine Mathews) birthday comes around. He thus rents a cabin in Virginia to give her a special weekend.

After dropping her off for a spa day so he can go get the cabin, he somehow ends up in the wrong cabin that is actually the setting for the Man from Toronto’s next interrogation.

This mistaken identity sets the stage for the FBI making Teddy act like he’s Toronto to help stop an international incident.

Meanwhile, Toronto is furious that he lost a gig and needs to get to Teddy so he can finish the job right and get the payday.

Wait a minute, maybe a Spoiler Alert was in order.