If you were wondering whether or not Charlie Day can carry the lead in a movie — or if Ice Cube can play anything but an angry and intimidating character — their new movie “Fist Fight” indicates that they can’t.
This insipid, repetitive and stilted “comedy” takes us back to the last day of a rough high school where Prank Day is out of control. Inadvertently, Mr. Campbell (Day), gets himself into a scheduled after-school fist fight with Mr. Strickland (Ice Cube). The antics and high jinks that fill the ticking clock’s minutes are excruciatingly mind-numbing.
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