what is going on to all my netflix kevin hart fans out there and welcome back to my channel
movie files elliott back again with a brand new netflix series review and today we're breaking
down the new limited drama series by the name of true story the series in which by the time this
video is out will be available stream on netflix today your boy got a chance to check it out early
and i'm really excited to let you all know what i thought about it and let you know if it's worth
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all seven episodes what do you think about it let's talk about all your pros your cons your
thoughts on direction the story the performances the twists the turns were you entertained or were
you disappointed and since we're talking kevin hart what is your favorite kevin hart performance
let me know in the comments below so let me just kick this thing off start off with my positives
i'm gonna just say it right now this might be the most surprised i've been for a series by
the by the time i got done with the series this surprised the hell out of me in the best way
possible we'll get into that here in a little bit but for you all that aren't too familiar with this
true story drama limited theory starring kevin hart and wesley snipes basically synopsis goes is
it's pretty much kevin hart just playing a different character but having like a
similar lifestyle to his real life success he is a comedian that goes by the name of the kid he's had
a very successful career he just came out with a new movie called anti-verse which by the way
there's a lot of cameos in his show and there's a particular co-star in his movie anti-verse that
i'll just say he's in the mcu and i'll leave it to that but he has a big hit movie he's going on tour
headed back home to philadelphia again very loosely kind of based on kevin hart's true
life because he is from philly he's going to philly to do this tour but he's also going to
be paying a visit to his brother who is played by wesley snipes and they you can tell that there's a
a fractured relationship they haven't spoken in some years so we see wesley snipes who
plays his brother carlton invites his younger successful brother out for a night for drinks
they take some girls home and unfortunately one of the girls that kevin hart or should say the kid
takes it to his room he wakes up she winds up dead and that's the series we're watching to see how is
the kid gonna get out of this situation so that's basically a synopsis and i gotta say right now
i was hooked i was hooked on this series it's seven episodes the first episode is about an hour
but every other episode from there on is about 30 35 minutes and it had the this is
the quintessential netflix type of series because it had one of those every episode
had a cliffhanger especially episode one that made you want to come back and i was literally i was
in a situation where i was watching this show i'm all right all right let me go ahead let me
it's winding down let me go ahead and just watch this last episode and i'll watch the rest tomorrow
but then they have a cliffhanger i'm like god damn i got to watch the next one i was really engaged
in this story it was very compelling a lot of mysterious aspects a lot of twists and turns that
some of them i saw coming but some of the major ones i did not expect especially especially
episode one the way they end that i'm like is this a goddamn dream is this really happening
listen is that type of series but let me just kind of get more into the details in regards to
what really stood out to me before we get into all the nitty-gritty i want to start off with
the performances me personally i know kevin hart doesn't work for everyone he's like the the ryan
reynolds uh in comedy for some people in regards to like seeing him in movies doing the same type
of character but putting that aside i like kevin hart i'm gonna say it right now i have no fear
in saying that i like kevin hart regardless of like his outside the comedian stuff you know
the scandals and some of the stuff he said in the past as far as like entertainment goes
i'm entertained by kevin hart i've been following his career since
soul playing and listen i'm going to say it right now one of the best deleted scenes of all time
clapping but for y'all when i get back if you know what i'm talking about let me know in the
comments but i find him to be very funny i've seen him in person very funny guy and his career
listen i respect kevin hart from the hustle standpoint the man's always working but even
putting my fandom aside for kevin hart this is easily his best performance i've ever seen that's
speaking highly because we got a really good performance this year by him earlier this year
in fatherhood a couple years ago he was in the upside i think was the name of brian cranston
and throughout his career he's had some you know smaller roles and some serious dramas that i've
liked but this here ladies and gentlemen kevin hart showed the best and this was mostly a drama
this has some comedic beats of course it's kevin hart it's gonna be funny right but it's not like a
laugh out loud comedy isn't its main objective in the series it's more about the drama seeing
kevin hart playing the kid who again very kevin hart-like story a very successful comedian a movie
star a mobile entrepreneur but then he sees the world and how the world sees him and particularly
the close ones to him right especially his brother carlton and wesley snipes and seeing him
taking on that burden of being a big movie star it wouldn't mean to support other people but then
also thrown in the mix this man has a dead girl in his room and what can that mean for his career and
just seeing kevin hart navigate this narrative in regards to okay i gotta worry about this death but
at the same time i got this tour i got a son i got a wife that i recently divorced i got people to
take care of i got my brother relationship i gotta fix so there's a lot of stuff that the kid had
on his plate and i think kevin hart played it off perfectly man yes there's some nuances some things
that didn't really work for me entirely in his performance but from for the most part for me this
was kevin hart at his absolute best and this kind of shows you that the man if he takes his time if
he has the right scripts the right directors behind him has a great co-star in the wesley
snipes he can give you this type of performance so i definitely want to applaud the man kevin hart
but i also want to shine some light on one of my favorite actors in regards to just growing
up watching wesley snipes film of course you know i'm talking about blade but other films that he's
been in his tv shows and again seeing this kind of revamp of his career has been something great
to see wesley snipes is ready for hollywood ladies and gentlemen bring him back to hollywood because
him as carlton again he is the older brother of the kid and he is one of those brothers that
he's always been in the shadow he had a very kind of interesting career very early on in
high school into college being like the sports athlete unfortunately things didn't work out for
him because he got kind of caught up in drugs and money and stuff like that and he's kind of kept
that rap throughout his adulthood so seeing wesley snipes as the big little brother in a sense was
just such a great back and forth i truly believe that they were brothers in the show not just
because they are dark skinned and they look like they could be brothers but the chemistry was there
the the the rivalry between the two brothers the jealousy that unfolds in the story kind of shines
out and i thought wesley snipes did a really great job again dolomite was my name i wasn't a
fan of cutthroat city but he was great in that and then this is another example that again hollywood
i'm talking to you kevin feige nate moore marvel mcu i know we get more rehearsal i leave which i'm
excited to see him as blade delroy lindo just got announced to be in the film but
you gotta make my man wesley snipes give him a cameo that's all i want but neither here nor there
wesley snipes kevin hart was great and honestly all the performances throughout the well there's
a couple characters i didn't really care for but for the most part i thought everyone
whether it was herschel his bodyguard billy his uh friend that wrote some of his jokes todd his
manager i thought that everyone the simulcast did a really good job of playing their roles so
uh going a little bit into the story without giving too much weight because there are a lot
of twists and turns i think at the heart of the story it does show this story of again whether
you know you're a big time actor like kevin hart or a fan of the actor like kevin hart and then
a family member or a friend of his it kind of shows you all these different elements of how
hollywood and money and fame and greed can get the better of people especially when you have those
close to you and how the ones close to you can hurt you the most so i kind of love the story of
fame and fortune and what it can do to a person i love the jealousy aspect that the story has to it
there's a lot of drama again family drama between the two brothers there's a crime element in
regards to again getting rid of the body and having other people get involved and what that
could mean for money issues and money laundry and extortion so there's a lot of stuff i didn't
expect from the series but knowing that the show writer behind it is work he works on narcos that
doesn't surprise me also the director who directed half of the episodes directed shows like lost and
watched me i'm like okay that makes more sense because they've dove in those different genres
and they brought a lot of those sensibilities to the show so from a narrative perspective pretty
impressed but hey this wasn't a perfect series i'm gonna say right now there were some moments that
i had to kind of be like okay i got to kind of suspend my disbelief because there were a lot of
i don't want to say plot holes but there were a lot of plot conveniences and listen there's always
plot conveniences for narratives like this when you're trying to get away with murder when you're
trying to get rid of a body of course there's going to be an occasional oh the camera wasn't
working during this time or the biggest celebrity in the world is able to walk the streets of philly
without being seen so there are moments where you just kind of be like okay and the show does
acknowledge some of its plot conveniences but for the most part there were a lot of times i'm just
like okay they would have questioned this person a lot more the police would have been more involved
than what they really were and i want to give too much away but there were some the occasional plot
convenes is what i just had to be like you could have figured out a better way to implement the
story a little bit better but another thing that i have to bring up as far as criticisms
again i thought the cast and the the actors did a great job but there were some characters i really
thought didn't do much to the story i think of the billy character who writes jokes for kevin
hart and i honestly think that that character was written in by kevin hart because again
there's a lot of like real life kind of probably characters in this show that kevin hart probably
can relate to in real life like obviously his relationship with his brother in real life with
wesley snipes his trainer that i know he's really close with can be looked at as the security guard
but the billy character who writes the jokes they give her a little subplot in regards to
her venturing out on her own and being her own comedian because you know the kid isn't really
looking at her jokes as as often as he should but that plot went actually like literally nowhere and
it really had she really didn't have much to do in the show especially once we get past a certain
point the halfway point in the show so i thought her character was kind of done uh underwhelming
and really wasn't necessarily like needed for the show as well as there are these and just from uh
stereotypical characters that you can expect in a show like this i thought the greek brothers and
when you see the show you'll know what i'm talking about they were just kind of lackadaisical for me
it's like these two like you know gangsters are like a two-man operation you're telling me they're
like these big bad villains and you'll see how they're integral in the show but i thought those
characters good actors were just two on a nose for me very stereotypical very one-dimensional
and i thought they were just kind of you know some characters that i thought were very underwhelming
but outside of those things i will say episode one and two are very engaging very juicy very
make you want to come back for more but as the show kind of went on i'm thinking of episodes
kind of four and five they're not filler episodes by any means but there are some filler moments
again focusing on billy which didn't go anywhere focusing the relationship she has with someone
didn't go anywhere some other twists and turns that really didn't add up to anything
there were moments in the middle pack of the show that i felt like the show could have maybe
either slim some of that down and condense it just to one episode set it for two and really make it
maybe even a five or six episode mini series so there are moments in that kind of second half
that i thought were a little bit pacing issues and just some stories i didn't really go anywhere but
outside of those things before i give you all my overall thoughts before you leave make sure
if you haven't already to like share comment and subscribe to the channel overall true story
surprised the hell out of me not only from a performance standpoint by this being the best
performance by kevin hart seeing wesley snipes doing his thing as the brother was great there are
so many twists and turns that i did not see coming which kept me engaged this is a quintessential
binge watching type of show that i recommend 30 minutes easy binge and i recommend you all give
it a watch yes it has some of his flaws that i mentioned some characters don't don't really go
anywhere but again i urge you all to give this show a chance just watch the first episode and
if you're not hooked by the first episode then hey you can let me know in the comments but
i was thoroughly entertained and i recommend you all give true story a chance and when you do
let me know what you thought of it your pros your cons did you see the twist coming let's
talk about it and again kevin hart's performance am i the only one thinking that this is his best
performance that he's ever done let's talk about that in the comments below if you all stuck around
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