Yet another film this year that makes one wonder what kind of cookie cutter crap is being foisted on an increasingly angry American public. This movie has studio involvement written all over it. We don't get movies anymore. We get product. I can see the studio meeting now. "Let's get Jennifer Aniston and Gerald Butler together for a movie. They're both real purty. He's a bounty hunter. She's he's ex wife and has to arrest her. Gold, Jerry, Gold." Not exactly.
As a whole, the movie is not bad but it certainly isn't that good either. The script written by yet another nobody who probably has no business writing for anyone, Sarah Thorpe?, is a strict paint by numbers, been there done that screenplay. There is nothing in this that we haven't seen before a thousand times and better. But here's the rub. This could have been something had better people been put into it. Aniston and Butler are not movie stars no matter what Hollywood keeps telling us. Aniston looks amazing still and is a not a bad actress but her star shines less bright than it did on television. Butler on the other hand is a pretty one trick pony who can't go away fast enough. Everything, other than the way overrated 300, has been a disaster for this guy. Other than bit parts in great movies, he hasn't been good in anything. Yet, somehow, someway, he continues to get work. It's as if the studio execs can't count pass ten because the box office for his last 8 movies have been sucky. HE CAN'T OPEN A MOVIE. What do you need it tattooed on your forehead, dumb asses? We don't want to see this guy anymore. Make him go away.
Had they put, I don't know, ANYBODY else in this movie it would have been loads better. What exec put not one but two iffy box office draws into a movie? A MBAtard that's who. Was Martin Lawerence too busy ( I guy I don't even like) or Kathy Griffin. D list celbs could have been more convincing than this tired comic romp. The only highlight was SNL's Jason Sudekis as a lovesick coworker stalking the stunning Aniston. He was actually funny. The rest of this mess, not so much. Skip it like most of America. It's not worth your time.
1 and 1/2 stars out 5
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