I was at work (at a video store) when I had the idea to hire the shittiest recent movie I could find and review it. Congratulations to the Bounty Hunter for winning that honour. This movie has just 8% on Rotten Tomatoes.
8% is way too much.This is a verified shit movie. Seriously. I just wasted two hours of my life watching it. Actually, I kept zoning out and missing parts so I kept having to rewind it and it ended up being more than two hours. I'm not tired or anything - it was just so boring that at times I couldn't pay attention even though I tried. I found myself wondering if people knew how crap this movie was when they were filming it? Or was the realisation afterwards? Rest assured that I didn't actually pay to watch this movie, thankfully.
Anyway, the actual review.
The overracted opening scene sets the tone for this ridiculous story, where Gerard Butler (he's no stranger to ridiculous storylines) is an ex-cop turned bounty hunter (how does that even work? He's allowed to restrain people as he pleases? I'm fairly sure what he's doing is called false imprisonment, and there's definitely some assault in there, too, but whatevs) who has to hunt his ex-wife, Jennifer Aniston, as she's wanted for skipping bail on some felony or some kind of whatever (I lost interest early on, you see).
So, they used to be lovers and there's some attraction between them or something (despite them having ZERO chemistry onscreen) and they fall back in love blah blah, so there's all these soppy moments with the sweet music and the staring into each other's eyes. But, also, there's some half-assed alternate plot also occurring, where some guys are after Gerard Butler (I don't even know his character's name because I just don't care enough) because of something regarding drugs and cops, so there's also car chases and brawls. You get every cliche with this one!
So, yes, this is an romantic comedy action movie (that even sounds ridiculous; surely that should have been a warning). I bet the producers were like: romantic comedy audience + action movie audience = DOUBLE MONEY! Yeah, well, no. Just fail. The movie tries to do way too much and doesn't do any of it well.
The action part of the movie is summed up with about two sentences at the end. Very Scooby-Doo-esque. The romantic part of the movie is summed up in a little more detail - but it's really not any better. Guess what, Gerard Butler decides, after turning her in to the cops, that he actually does love her and stuff and gets thrown in jail with her... so they can celebrate their wedding anniversary together, which is today, but no one's mentioned it til now. Surprise! I'm fucking serious. Now you know why I may sound a little annoyed, right? This movie was shiiiiiiiiiiiit.
The highlight of the film was seeing Jennifer Aniston sprint in high heels. That was wild.
PS, just imagine Gerard Butler growling "take it easy, Skippy". Yeah, that happened. Yeah, you really don't want to see this movie, trust me.
I remember seeing a trailer for this in a food court with no sound. All I saw was Gerard Butler pick up Jennifer Aniston and carry her away over his shoulder followed by the card "Best job ever".
ReplyDeleteI get that Gerard Butler's career has picked up because of 300, but why romantic comedy roles? Seriously.
I thought he was good in 300, but by making movies like this he's making it way too difficult for me to like him.
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