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Director: Andy Tennant
Movie review
From Time Out London
Hollywood’s campaign to convince audiences that beefy Scots bulldog Gerard Butler can play the romantic lead gathers pace with this misjudged marital crime caper. Butler plays Milo Boyd, an ex-cop turned bail bondsman assigned to haul in his ex-wife Nicole (Jennifer Aniston), a hotshot reporter in deep with the law. The pursuit takes this pair of bickering exes from New York to Atlantic City and back, via a series of perfunctory car chases, poorly choreographed punch-ups and excruciating romantic entanglements.The trouble is not so much that Butler isn’t funny – he isn’t, even slightly – but that he sucks the merest hint of humour from the entire enterprise. Even proven performers like Aniston and Christine Baranski as a sexually voracious mother-in-law are reduced to desperate mugging and hysterical arm-waving in an attempt to fill the comic vacuum which their muscular co-star leaves in his wake. To be fair, the script gives them little to work with: there are maybe three decent laughs, interspersed with long stretches of interminable, would-be witty banter and one near-unwatchable comedy torture scene.
The score, too, is atrocious: infuriatingly cheeky in the comedy scenes, switching to screeching Bon Jovi-esque AOR whenever things kick off. ‘The Bounty Hunter’ isn’t bad enough to be offensive: it’s simply lazy, trite, smug, irritating and a colossal waste of time, talent and money. There’ll be worse films released in 2010 – but not many.
Author: Tom Huddleston
Time Out London Issue 2065: 18-24 March, 2010
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- stephanie said...
- Posted on Jan 16 2011 05:47 The ONLY bad thing about this movie are the reviews! I totally agree with a comment down below, people will complain about anything! LOVED this movie! Very cute and entertaining!
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- Tafi said...
- Posted on Apr 24 2010 13:08 it was amazing nd funny
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- ScotlandGirl said...
- Posted on Apr 18 2010 01:12 This movie was awesome - not as funny as at first percieved, but no where NEAR as bad as this site it making out!!
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- secret said...
- Posted on Apr 15 2010 17:55 i think it will me amenz but i havent seen it yet it looks sooo funny lol! cant wait to see it with ma best friend!
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- Dimitri Dematteo said...
- Posted on Apr 14 2010 12:42 This film was absolutly amazing i love all the people in it i especially loved Jennifer Aniston she was the best in in it and i wat to go ansd see it again
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- Eva x said...
- Posted on Apr 09 2010 22:22 I have seen it and it is ACE!!!!!!!! I swear its only just passed a 12a coz its got alot of swearing in it ,,,,, Lol. The actors are very good and at the end i was Lmao xx
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- abzee said...
- Posted on Apr 07 2010 22:16 av not watched it but am pretty sure it aint that bad!
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- kate said...
- Posted on Apr 05 2010 02:00 piece of c**p - don't do it to yourself
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- Emma said...
- Posted on Mar 30 2010 21:50 Weak story line very predictable and not really that funny. Best thing was G.Butler's body when he came out the shower!!
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- liv said...
- Posted on Mar 27 2010 14:29 how did this film get made????
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- Mary&Nemobooboo said...
- Posted on Mar 26 2010 10:59 As far as i'm concerned, Gerard can to no wrong! Only thing missing in this film is Tom Hardy. Love ya both xx
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- lauren said...
- Posted on Mar 25 2010 03:28 eye pokingly bad.... and don't get me started on the never-ending music- I'm surprised my ears didn't start bleeding.
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- Dicky said...
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Posted on Mar 23 2010 21:25
Once upon a time there lived a mediocre actress who got a part in a comedy series that ran for eternity on Channel 4. During this time, the mediocre actress got a part in a hair product commercial, and began to believe the catchphrase that she “was worth it”. Tossing her tresses left and right, she moved on to a series of more demanding 1 star movies, none of which were particularly memorable. Hollywood cruely teamed her up with ‘stars’ such as Gerald Butler, Ben Affleck, and others, but nothing seemed to satisfy her desire for more. Believing that more was more, our heroine appeared to take on parts without first bothering the read the scripts – such was her desire to appear in as many movies as possible in as little time, regardless of their quality.
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By now the girl who thought she was “worth it” had become a woman, and the endless comedy series was now thankfully a distant memory. Her output over the years had become so entirely predictable that the word “distant” also summed up her chances of ever being taken seriously in a major movie.
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- Mee said...
- Posted on Mar 23 2010 20:19 I think everyone who has complained need to try and make a film themselves! Some people just complain about everything
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- roger rabbit said...
- Posted on Mar 21 2010 10:46 B. Buton & Dorothy need to get to spec savers!!!!
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Cast & crew
Director: Andy Tennant
Cast: Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston, Gio Perez, Joel Garland full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Rated: 12A
Duration: 106 mins
UK Release: Mar 17 2010
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