New Delhi, July 24 -- a 40-year-old marketing executive, responsible and risk-averse by training, gets pulled into three days of Miami chaos alongside a group of Gen Z companions with no interest in accommodating his sense of propriety. That gap between the man who measures consequence and the men who haven't encountered it yet is the space where a sharp comedy lives.

What Tim Story's film delivers instead is a polished, lively, frequently amusing exercise in squandered potential. 72 Hours, which begins streaming on Netflix on Friday, works in bursts - Kevin Hart is committed enough that individual scenes land - but the script's appetite for farcical escalation repeatedly takes precedence over the cultural observation that the setup prom...