The Bounty Hunter (2010)
Starring Jennifer Aniston, Gerard Butler, and Jason Sudeikis
Directed by Andy Tennant
There's a minute-long scene at the very beginning of The Bounty Hunter that had my hopes raised for the flick right from the start. We see Milo (Gerard Butler) driving down a highway with a smirk on his face when suddenly smoke begins to billow out of the car's trunk. He pulls over, opens the trunk, and out pops Nikki (Jennifer Aniston) with one of those emergency highway light sticks. She starts to run, he chases after her, and the screen pauses. Up pops some arrows pointing to the characters, cleverly explaining what's going on, telling us that these two folks were previously married and Milo, a bounty hunter, has picked up Nikki, a news reporter, who skipped a court date because she was hot on the trail of a story. All this was actually rather amusing...
...Then the title card popped up and it all went downhill from there. I don't think I laughed once during this flick's overly long 110 minutes. Aniston (who I could watch for hours on end) and Butler (who is certainly engaging in these "comedic" roles) do the best they can with what they're given, but they aren't given much. I was hoping that at the very least this movie wouldn't go down the stereotypical route that these two exes would end up together in the end, but, lo and behold, the final shot finds our two lovebirds making out.
There's nothing to recommend in this one. Not a thing.
The RyMickey Rating: D-
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