Every Kevin Hart Netflix Original Movie Ranked From Worst to Best

Me Time – Picture: Netflix

There’s no bigger entertainer out there as hardworking as Kevin Hart. The comedian successfully turned his stage presence into a successful brand spanning every visual medium you can think of. Leading man in films and television, numerous comedy specials, reality shows finding the next big comic, and even his own roast, and this is just in 2020. But what he has more than any other multi-hyphenate these days: Netflix movies. Countless, endless Netflix movies.

Not many of them are good. Some of the Kevin Hart-led flicks are complete dreck that will make you even question the art form to begin with, and then a select few are moderately okay. With the release of his latest comedy, 72 Hours,  we only wonder what’s the best Kevin Hart-led film and what delivers the most Hart-break. For all intents and purposes, we’re only looking at his narrative features, not comedy specials or TV shows, because there’s only so much Hart I can take. These movies, or “movies,” we have to say in quotations, were painful enough. DO NOT EVER DO THIS! This is peak masochism and will destroy you. 

Here’s every Kevin Hart Netflix movie ranked.

Man, there used to be a time when John Hamburg dominated the comedy space with the Meet the Parents films, and Me Time is a largely unfunny, soulless shell of his former glory paired with an unbelievably chemistryless pair in Mark Wahlberg and Kevin Hart. In it, Hart plays Sonny, a mild-mannered family guy (for the umpteenth time) who gets his life upended when his childhood best friend Huck (Wahlberg) wants to celebrate his 44th birthday, and wacky shenanigans ensue. The movie prioritizes wacky shock-value scenarios and predictable slapstick above, well, a decent script that doesn’t feel like it was algorithmically slapped together. Not even Regina Hall as his wife can elevate it. It’s devoid of any genuine entertainment value that you will actively lose brain cells while watching. Studies show it, in fact; my study, as I felt my own brain cells packing their bags and leaving the dome. At least it wasn’t Why Him?—an insult to comedy itself—but God willing, this is painful. 

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You’d think a heist flick about a crackerjack crew of thieving pros stealing $500 million in gold bars from a plane would be at least moderately fun, but like *gestures to everything else here,* Lift is so dull and trite. Think every Kevin Hart/Netflix movie, but make it a heist. Not even F. Gary Gray’s direction or even all the international locations can elevate this flightless and really unfunny crime comedy at all. It has a decent ensemble in Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Vincent D’Onofrio, Úrsula Corberó, and Billy Magnussen, to name a few, but Lift actively thinks little and is mindless of its viewer and operates on the most formulaic autopilot. You might as well think it’s pulling a heist to waste your time itself. Again, Hart is playing his confident, assured straight-man self with the same signature charisma that is more grating than the times you see him comically yell. Also, remember NFTs and how that fake currency died faster than it was trying to pop off? This movie, which came out in 2024, has NFT artists as major characters, and it’s pretty funny and sad how “That’s So Netflix Original” Lift is because of that. It highlights its quality just by how dated it is. 

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One of the funniest elements about The Man From Toronto is that nobody can say Toronto. The idea of Woody Harrelson and Kevin Hart in a buddy action-comedy is intriguing, in an “okay, who would’ve thought” kind of way. But this mistaken-identity buddy action comedy about a hapless sales consultant and the world’s deadliest assassin clashing worlds that gave me Cars 2 vibes is merely boring. Hits a near 2-hour runtime, and for what?! The action is as bland as everything The Hitman’s Bodyguard director Patrick Hughes has done prior, and try as they might, Hart and Harrelson’s slight chemistry can’t punch up a pathetically mediocre script. At least it didn’t make me want to put a hit on myself after watching, but I did contemplate it.

72 HOURS. (L to R) Marcello Hernandez as Nick and Kevin Hart as Joe in 72 Hours. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026.

72 Hours combines the mechanisms of The Man From Toronto (comedy of errors leading to action schlock) and Me Time (over-the-top wild humor) to make a moderately, slightly funny diversion.

I mean, don’t get me wrong, this film about a 40-something joining a group of twenty-somethings on a three-day bachelor party binge in the Miami heat has an onslaught of juvenile dick jokes like it jumped from a portal from the 2000s. Don’t get me started on how nonsensical the plot is and how it diverts into being another crime comedy, trying to reheat The Hangover’s nachos without any ingenuity—because you can’t just make a straight-up comedy anymore. 72 Hours is bad, but I’ll be damned if Hart gives a bit of humility so its younger SNL stars in Marcello Hernández, Kam Patterson, Ben Marshall, and Mason Gooding can shine—a deviation from most of these other star vehicles. Hernández got some solid chuckles out of me every so often. He just has that star presence that should be utilized more. Again, bad, but I occasionally laughed, which says more than every other movie on here.

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It’s as if Fatherhood wasn’t supposed to go to Netflix in the first place and was a pandemic acquisition. Nevertheless, Paul Weitz’s grounded, emotionally affecting fable based on the true story of a widowed father, Matthew Logelin, single-handedly raising his young daughter Maddy (Melody Hurd) showcases Hart in a strong dramatic portrayal that he should definitely consider doing more of. Fatherhood rises above its formulaic, heartfelt drama trappings due to its sincere earnestness and Hart’s, um, heartfelt range.  I like it when Hart adds an “e” to his last name and capitalizes on it. Fatherhood is also elevated by a fantastic ensemble performance by Alfre Woodard, Lil Rel Howery, DeWanda Wise, Melody Hurd, and her younger sister Rhythm as Maddy. Hurd’s chemistry with Hart is the core strength that fuels this dramedy’s engine. It’s simplistic and forgettable, but it’s genuinely touching in ways that every movie of his on the platform lacks. Again, this was a real movie meant for the theaters, and it’s apparent in its presentation and storytelling. It only goes to show what talent Hart truly possesses when focusing on his abilities as an actor and not a brand.