If you’ve seen cop movies like “Rush Hour,” “Fuzz,” “48 HRS,” “Training Day,” and “Paul Blart, Mall Cop,” you know what to expect at every turn. Actors John Leguizamo, Bruce McGill, Bryan Callen, and Laurence Fishburne grace this predictable, by-the-numbers, potboiler with their illustrious presence. Another inevitable gag involving a video gamers’ microphone headset is so obviously set-up that you’d have to miss it with a trip to the concession counter or elsewhere, to overlook it. They set up at least one gag early in the action and pay it off during the finale. Story and four writers, including “Sorority Boys” scripter Greg Coolidge, newcomer Jason Mantzoukas, and “R.I.P.D” co-scribes Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, have recycled dutifully every cliché from those 1980s era police procedurals.

A veteran cop with anger management issues, Ice Cube scowls and grimaces throughout “Ride Along” as he did in “21 Jump Street.” Cube’s character is obsessed with arresting an enigmatic criminal mastermind known only as Omar, but his obnoxious superior keeps reprimanding him about his rogue behavior. “Think Like A Man” director Tim Story casts the charismatic Hart as a wacky wannabe cop cooped up in a car with Ice Cube’s stoic Atlanta Police Detective in “Ride Along”, a standard-issue, odd couple, buddy comedy with shoot-outs and explosions. He could stand around and do nothing, and he would still be hilarious. Hart’s hyperactive loquacity, colossal impertinence, and contagious energy make him riotously funny. 2-in., bantamweight African-American comedian reminds me of Chris Tucker stuck in a hole two-feet deep. It's just a shame the film takes so long for his slapstick talents to shine.Stand-up comic Kevin Hart cracks me up. Thankfully, the fat gags aren't too cruel and his boundless enthusiasm makes him easy to root for. At least, James provides some fun spoofing action flicks like Die Hard by doing a lot of running, jumping and getting stuck in an air vent.

And his bumbling exploits are just as uninspiring for anyone else watching the film until the plot bursts into some sort of life with the arrival of a gang of acrobatic robbers that lays siege to the mall.

Acting the tough guy on a two-wheeled electric scooter and suffering from hyperglycemia (which makes him fall asleep when he's low on sugar), James finds it hard to impress the girl of his dreams (played by a bored-looking Jayma Mays). This time, however, the jokes, like the man, are much broader.

After playing the lovable patsy in Hitch and long-running US sitcom The King of Queens, Kevin James retains his amiable buffoon character here, as a gauche mall cop with ambitions to be a state trooper.

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