Review: The Bounty Hunter

If two beautiful people were all a movie needed to be good, this movie would be top notch. Unfortunately, this movie also had a story line, talking, and a soundtrack that will delight the average fourteen year old girl.

Nicole (Jennifer Aniston) is a reporter on a mission to the top. While on her way to a court date, she gets a hot tip on a suicide story that she is covering, and ends up skipping out on her trial. The judge then revokes her bail and has put out a warrant for her arrest, which is assigned to a bounty hunter… but not just any bounty hunter, her ex husband Milo (Gerard Butler). Milo and Nicole were once madly in love, but ended up driving each other mad, like most couples. Milo must now take his ex to jail, but she is more worried about chasing her suicide story. Needless to say, she gets herself, as well as Milo in trouble, making for a mediocre story.

There is nothing new about this story. Aniston and Butler have great chemistry, but it is not enough to make this a box office smash. The story is not very believable, and everything, from the two of them falling back in love, to them being chased by bad guys, yet somehow coming out of the mess safe and sound, is completely predictable. This movie is suppose to be a comedy, but it is just not funny. There are maybe, and I mean maybe, three or four parts that are slightly amusing, but nothing to write home about. Oh, and I hope you like hearing people bicker about how in the world they could have ever married each other, because you will have to sit through a lot of it.

Now, I normally don’t comment on how bad a soundtrack is, but this one was horrible. I take that back… it is horrible unless you are a teenage girl. They play tracks from Kesha, for example, which does not fit into a grown up romantic comedy. I would expect it in a movie directed towards teens, but not one that is more for adults. It reminded me of someones mom trying to appear younger and more hip than what they really are, and just made the movie even more awkward than it already is.

Needless to say, the only bounty that you can count on for watching this movie is mediocrity. I could have written more about it, but there is just nothing exciting to tell… or make fun of.

Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 5