Directed by:
Andy TennantScreenplay:
Sarah ThorpCinematography:
Oliver BokelbergComposer:
George FentonCast:
Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston, Christine Baranski, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Cathy Moriarty, Jason Sudeikis, Dorian Missick, David Costabile, Peter Greene (more)VOD (1)
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Down-on-his-luck bounty hunter Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler) is assigned what appears to be a dream job when he is asked to track down his bail-jumping ex-wife, reporter Nicole Hurly (Jennifer Aniston). Looking forward to an easy payday, Milo is soon reminded that nothing has ever been so straightforward when it comes to him and Nicole. As she promptly disappears on the trail of a hot murder cover-up story, a game of one-upmanship ensues between the two exes as they resort to every trick in the book to outsmart each other. (Sony Pictures Releasing)
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Yuck. Boring. The only two reasons I watched the Bounty Hunter till the end was its rather good plot and the nice duo of actors in the main roles. Otherwise, the movie is a string of unfunny and only sometimes slightly amusing scenes that don’t make any sense.
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The Bounty Hunter spends an unbearable amount of time on deciding whether it wants to be a romantic comedy about the reconciliation of a quarrelling couple or a gangster flick. The presence of Peter Greene is nice, but the two aforementioned storylines wouldn’t even work on their own, much less together. The ladies in the audience found some enjoyment, but the male viewers found the film hard to sit through.
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So the rumors didn't lie... The Bounty Hunter is a really, really bad movie. This is another comedy that lacks jokes and was meant to mainly attract audiences through familiar names. But what good are famous names when one of them is Gerard Butler, a man who should stick to beating Persians over the head and similar roles, and should definitely not be involved in comedies. His stilted delivery kills even the slightest opportunity to create a joke that someone else could have gotten out of a partnership with Jennifer Aniston... someone with comedic talent. Alas.
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Even though I like Gerard Butler, this film just didn't click with me at all. I was looking forward to it in the movie theater and went to see it with my girlfriend, but there wasn't anything to laugh about the whole time. If it weren't for that storyline where he's a bounty hunter, it would really be about nothing. This is one of the reasons I don't like Jennifer Aniston. The other is most of her other roles.
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