Tim Story’s “ Ride Along ” was garden-variety fluff, a copy of a copy that saw buddy-cop progenitor “Beverly Hills Cop” filtered through any one of its endless imitators (“Rush Hour,” “Blue Streak,” and so on).
But the two cops’ respective plans go awry when they come face-to-face with the hacker, AJ (Jeong), a resourceful geek whom James dismisses as “a low-budget-ass Jackie Chan,” perhaps in an attempt to stir fond memories of “Rush Hour.”
Probably a good test of whether you should consider riding along with this low-rent version of “Bad Boys” meets “ Rush Hour ” is if you are tickled by Ben suggesting that he and James call themselves “The Brothers-in-Law.”