BOUNTY HUNTER
Director: Andy Tennant
Writer: Sarah Thorp
Nicole Hurley: Jennifer Aniston
Milo Boyd: Gerard Butler
All things seemed ready for lift-off with this Action Romantic Comedy about an ex-cop bounty hunter Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler) who gleefully must bring in his ex-wife newspaper reporter Nicole Hurley (Jennifer Aniston) for jumping bail. Two major box-office name brands, a cute premise and a successful, veteran RomCom director/writer (Fool's Gold, Hitch and Sweet Home Alabama). But no blast off. Not for me, and not for the rest of the audience in the theater. Not that we hated it.....it was just flat.
Nicole has been covering local parking ticket issues when she notices a few inconsistencies with a suicide (police Depository worker) and a parking ticket, and she starts investigating for a career-making expose. Milo Boyd, who is in deep gambling debt after his divorce, needs the dough...and the revenge against his ex. Nicole is dead-set on uncovering the details of this story, which may even involve a cop who walked them down the aisle. But Milo is so intent on getting back at his ex that we start to wonder if he ever WAS a cop, or if so, a decent cop. And we start to sympathize with Nicole, and wonder how someone so sharp could have married someone so "damaged" in the first place.
There is a decent amount of chemistry between the two (who I think started dating while making this film), and they both look exceptionally fit and sexy, but something is missing and they fail to create fire, or laughs, when they should. Thank God they brought in side comics like Jeff Garlin and Christine Baranski for some much-needed levity, but even they couldn't float the movie out of bland soupy stew. Wait for this one on DVD.
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