The Bounty Hunter

This heavily trashed Hollywood movie has quite a few decent one-liners and funny gag.

This must be the most critically trashed Hollywood movie of the year. Surprisingly, the film isn’t half as bad as it is made out to be. For one thing, The Bounty Hunter, with Nicole (Aniston) as bounty and Milo (Butler) as hunter, is pretty decently paced, except maybe towards the end when there is too much plot and not enough of the lowdown on how the recently divorced couple survive each other’s company so successfully. We could have all done with some tips on how to hang out with the ex.

Butler, playing Milo, has a certain animal presence and even though he may not win a beauty contest, his former mother-in-law (Christine Baranski) has given his sex appeal the thumbs up and made her daughter promise that if she ever gets back with her ex, she will take a picture of his ass on her cell phone and mail it to her. This is not the only testimony that Milo has received. Even Nicole has confessed that the man used to be fun until he started resenting her success as a professional (she is a reporter). Clearly, a residue lingers, or malingers, and any stray spark could set it off. So when Milo the ‘bounty hunter’, a man assigned to catch people who jump bail, is told that he now has to catch his ex-wife and bring her to court, he is over the moon.

The Bounty Hunter has at least half a dozen decent one-liners and gags placed strategically along the route. For instance, when Milo grabs a friend’s wife and kisses her in joy, she responds phlegmatically by opening his mouth and retrieving her chewing gum from it. Hygiene is not a top priority in the movie. Aniston is shown in the same black miniskirt over several vigorous chases, and how passions are reignited with the BO is anyone’s guess, but give it to Butler, he has the occasional bath.

The film is cut well and keeps you in anticipation of the next moment of vulgarity. Good for a few laughs.

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