Intrigue

Hart plans an innovative action film with unscripted, unexpected scenes to cement his legacy as the greatest. However, a blind spot leads him to fall victim to a vengeful plot from his past.

Kevin (Kevin Hart) was desperate to do a good action film, but the problem was that nobody was offering him to do one. He was associated with a certain genre, and the producers had stereotyped him because they believed that the audience wouldn't accept him in any other kind of role.

So Kevin planned how he would convince Debra Simon (Melissa Ponzio), and considering he had a flair for the dramatic, he did something bizarre. A group of people came and attacked Kevin while he was sitting in the restaurant with Debra. It felt like they were actually engaged in a fight, but it was not so. Kevin had planned it all out, and he just wanted to impress Debra by showing his moves.

The fight got over, and he gave Debra a huge script for an action film and told her to give it a read. Debra was still not interested in his proposal. Debra wanted Kevin to do the sequel to the film he had done before, and she was quite adamant about it. Kevin was deeply disappointed, and he wanted to do something about the situation. Kevin insists that Debra take the script with her, but later sees her throwing the script in the trash can just outside the restaurant.

It was around that time that a man named Karl Stormberg (Greg Kriek) contacted Kevin. He was apparently a European director, and he wanted to cast Kevin in an action thriller. Kevin was elated, and he already started to think about the kind of impact that would have on the audience after doing the film. Kevin's assistant Andre was skeptical that he could not find Karl on the internet and advised Kevin not to do the movie with him. Kevin gets really mad and says that he is looking out for himself, and he didn't need his stuntman (whom he fired a year ago), and didn't need his assistant either.

However, Kevin's future plans went down the drain when it was revealed that Karl Stormberg was just an impostor and that he had come there just to kidnap Kevin. Some unknown people had laid a trap, and Kevin walked straight into it. There were people who held a lot of hatred against Kevin, and they wanted to settle some scores. They wanted to make him pay for his actions. Kevin had no clue that his actions could have consequences. He didn't know that his bad karma would come to haunt him one day. But he was stuck in a mess, and he didn't know what to expect next.

Kevin was hit with a dart, and then when he woke up, he found himself being held captive, tied to a chair, in a facility. Kevin somehow managed to free himself, and he went to the room to find that even Jordan (Nathalie Emmanuel) (The female student he met and befriended in the first film) had been kidnapped and brought there.

Kevin thought that Karl Stromberg had put him in a situation because he wanted to capture Kevin doing action in the most natural fashion. Kevin tried to convince Jordan, too, to play the part and act along, but the latter was sensible enough to understand that there were no hidden cameras capturing their movements and that they were actually in danger. A masked man attacks Jordan and Kevin, and that's when the latter realizes that it was not a movie set but that there were people who were really after his life.

Jordan and Kevin escape from captivity. Kevin visits Karl's office and finds it deserted. They find a VHS tape player and on it, the audition tape of the actor who played Karl. They get a mysterious phone call confirming Kevin's identity, before Kevin finds a bomb in the office and escapes with Jordan. Kevin finds Andrew waiting for him in the car park. With nowhere else to go, Kevin went to Andre's house, as the latter had waited for him for more than 30 hours in the parking lot, even after Kevin fired him.

Andre tells a touching story about how his father was the assistant to Richard Pryor and came in the way of a knife when an attacker tried to kill Richard during a public appearance. Instead of sympathizing with Andre, Kevin focused only on why someone would try to kill Richard. Jordan tells Kevin that things would have been different for him if he had treated everyone around him (who supported him in becoming a successful actor) with respect.

In a flashback sequence, a year ago, Jordan and Kevin were doing a film together. There was a scene where both characters had to drive a bike, and Jordan thought she could do it on her own. When Kevin learned about it, he thought that Jordan was trying to belittle him by showing the world that she could do her own stunts, and he couldn't. So, Kevin, in the spur of the moment, fired his stuntman named Doug Eubanks. Kevin didn't give him any kind of explanation, and even after years of dedicated service, that man was fired on unreasonable grounds. Doug tried to apply for jobs after that, but he realized that nobody wanted him. He had a hard time coping with life, and whenever he thought about Kevin, it angered him from within. Doug decided to take revenge on Kevin and destroy his life.

Jordan and Andre (Ben Schwartz) go to meet Scott Hayman (Kendrick Cross), Kevin's agent, and they realized in that moment that it was Doug who had orchestrated the attack as it was Doug in Scott's cabin. Doug changed his appearance, and in Kevin's absence, he made everyone believe that he was the real Kevin Hart. Doug took over Kevin's life, and when Jordan and Andre told the actor about it, he realized that he would have to do something about it before it was too late.

Kevin came to the realization that he hadn't been very respectful towards people to whom he owed so much. He realized that people like Andre and Doug worked day and night, and that is why he was able to be successful. That humility and realization brought Kevin and Andre together. They go to meet the fabled Mr. 206 (John Cena), who was the mentor of Doug Eubanks. But things don't turn out the way they would have expected them to. Mr. 206 was actually on Doug's team, and he was the masked man who had attacked them when they were taken to that facility. Andre sneaks Kevin in his mansion, where Doug would be living Kevin's life.

Kevin and Doug come face-to-face. It was an uphill battle for Kevin, as it was not an easy task to overpower Mr. 206 or Doug. Kevin kills Mr. 206, and then he goes against Doug, all guns blazing. Andre gets gravely injured in the process, but he manages to come back and save Kevin's life. Kevin and Andre are able to get the better of Doug. It seemed like Doug would be taken away by the law enforcement authorities, and things would go back to normal. But it was not so.

Maybe it was the real Kevin who was put behind bars, and Doug was still out pretending to be him. How Doug was able to pull off such a feat was still a mystery.