The headline, the pitch, the reason “True Story” exists is that it presents global superstar Kevin Hart as we haven’t seen him before.
Which is true. We haven’t seen him in this type of violent nightmare, in which he plays a character who makes one terrible decision after another to protect himself, collecting more and more blood on his hands.
We also haven’t seen him flex these dramatic muscles, even in tearful dramas like “Fatherhood” or “The Upside.” However, we have indeed seen him, as a stand-up especially, try and fail to make his fame and fortune important to us, which makes for shrinking stakes here in this seven-episode Netflix miniseries.
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