KEVIN HART TOUR REVIEW MOVIE
It's the comedy that should be front and center in "Let Me Explain," but the movie decides to make us wait for it. but also in Scandinavia, where he apparently has a fervent YouTube following. His previous concert film, "Laugh at My Pain," pulled in nearly $8 million in limited release (with a purported budget of $750,000), and now "Let Me Explain" sees the comic not only packing houses in the U.S. Carlton has felt overlooked for most of his life with the way he steals every scene he’s in, this will not be a problem for Wesley Snipes.But Hart is, first and foremost, a stand-up comic. And he speaks in a deep, slow-as-molasses tone that neatly conveys how resentful Carlton is of his little brother’s wealth and fame, yet how desperately he’ll move to get Kid out of the jams they keep finding themselves in. He looks young enough to be plausible as the brother Kid grew up with (in real life, Hart and Snipes are nearly two decades apart). Yet he gives as commanding and memorable a dramatic performance as he’s done in quite a while. Snipes, on the other hand, could probably get away with sleepwalking through this story. There’s an occasional charge to the illusion that this could all be happening to the real Hart, but it also feels as if Newman, director Stephen Williams, and their collaborators have given training wheels to their leading man for this new adventure. Hart is perfectly credible in a darker and more intense context, though the extreme similarities between himself and Kid prove to be a double-edged sword. Carlton calls in his associate Ari (Billy Zane) to help solve this ugly problem, which inevitably leads to more and more problems, until Ari’s siblings Savvas (Chris Diamantopoulos) and Nikos (John Ales) are turning Kid’s hometown into a city of brotherly hate.
KEVIN HART TOUR REVIEW TV
Without getting into too much detail - even though anyone who watches even a bit of modern TV drama will be able to predict many of the “surprises” in advance - Kid finds himself in the vicinity of a dead body that could destroy his career. Hot on the heels of a supporting performance in a billion-dollar superhero film, Kid is returning to stand-up for the first time in years, and starting off his tour in Philly, where Carlton lurks as both brother and burden. The supersized first episode (roughly an hour compared to 30-odd minutes for the rest) introduces us to Kid and the machine that helps him run, including harried but understanding manager Todd (Paul Adelstein), joke writer/aspiring comedian Billie (Tawny Newsome), and bodyguard Herschel (Will Catlett). And it’s one where whatever novelty True Story has to offer comes less from its star simultaneously playing to and against type than from a scorching supporting performance from Wesley Snipes. Whatever the reason behind the approach, the end result is a decently-executed but tired example of a particular kind of serialized thriller of which TV already has plenty. Or perhaps to help ease in viewers who are far more accustomed to Hart going for laughs than fending off blackmailers and threats to his life.
But that blurring of fact and fiction seems baked into the concept as a way to add further tension to a project that’s already a departure for its leading man.
That Kid and Carlton spend most of the seven-episode tale disposing of dead bodies, evading Greek mobsters, and lying to every authority figure they meet suggests it’s not really a roman á clef-style retelling of Hart’s life. That opening monologue, that title, and all of the Kevin/Kid parallels are meant on some level to make the viewer wonder throughout whether this show is thinly-disguised memoir. Hart even has an older brother, as does the Kid, who here is called Carlton and is played by Wesley Snipes. They share a hometown (Philadelphia, which is also the show’s primary setting), a first initial, and a relative level of fame and career success (both are fixtures on Ellen DeGeneres’ show). But, like when Prince called himself by the same nickname in the autobiographical Purple Rain, Hart and True Story creator Eric Newman very much want you to think of actor and character as one and the same. Well, technically, it is the character Hart is playing in the limited series, a comedian known only as the Kid. This is Kevin Hart at the start of his new Netflix thriller True Story.
But they don’t know what I did to get here. “People think that they know me because I made them laugh or because they’ve been to a show.
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