Kevin Hart is the Philadelphia-born standup who might be vaguely familiar from movies such as This Is the End, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and The Five-Year Engagement. Here is his sporadically funny live show, recorded over two nights at Madison Square Garden in New York: the set lasts just under 60 minutes, but this feature is padded up to around an hour and a quarter with self-congratulatory home-movie footage from his world tour, and a uneasy fictional setup at a party in which he is supposedly confronted with personal criticisms from his friends and resolves to answer all these points during his routine. I could have done without this pointless framing device, but there is some funny and highly incorrect material here.
arden, where the well-heeled middle-class audience, half of them women, roar with laughter and applaud whenever he uses the words "nigger", "bitch", "fuck" and "shit", which he does several times a minute.He repeats virtually every sentence, makes strange shrieking noises and has developed a style that largely dispenses with recognisable punch lines. The biggest, interminable set piece features Hart caught in flagrante while being fellated at the wheel of his car. His act, lasting the best part of an hour, is painfully unfunny and makes one suspect that a latter-day follower of Ivan Pavlov had been engaged to condition the audience. I'd rather attend a Norman Wisdom tribute concert in downtown Tirana than see this film again.