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As formula films go, The Bounty Hunter is more enjoyable than most, even if it packs in as many cliches as any.
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50In The Bounty Hunter, the couple that foils a bunch of tiresome grade-C thriller goons together stays together. Whether or not that's a recipe for love, it's certainly not a formula for romantic-comedy magic.
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40The mishmash ends up as a thoroughly unfunny adult cartoon.
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40Try as they might, Nicole and Milo, as they are called in the movie, don't steam. Wispy vapors is about as good as it gets.
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40This dire battle-of-the-exes action-comedy severely tests audience goodwill by running an indulgent 110 minutes, crammed as it is with half-baked thriller subplots and aimless supporting characters, as if to distract from the central duo's nonstop bickering.
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38Why, oh, why, was this movie necessary?
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38We have to take the sexual tension on faith, as with everything in this formulaic glob of a script.
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38Tennant aims for a contemporary version of "The Thin Man," wedding the banter of sparring spouses with sleuth work. To say that he falls short of the mark is understatement.
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38The Bounty Hunter does give Christine Baranski, as an Atlantic City entertainer and Mama Aniston, another opportunity to enthrall us with her drag-queenliness.
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38Aniston doesn’t bring her old A-game to this. But at least she’s not quiet and reserved and no-energy, her approach to too many roles of late. Butler makes the most of his Neanderthal rut.
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38Even if The Bounty Hunter is more plot-driven than your standard romantic comedy, it's never quite as funny as it should be.
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30The script has all the spunk of Ikea-bookcase assembly instructions.
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30For his sins poor Stewart is kidnapped, tortured and shot up with horse tranquilizer after his leg is broken. It’s disturbing, and somewhat baffling too, until you grasp that this hapless sucker is a surrogate for the audience.
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30The only thing that Butler and Aniston have in common, however, is identical Aruba-bronze skin tones: they seem to have been sprayed with the same can.
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30Inexplicably, Butler continues to get work in romantic comedies despite his limited range and boorish persona.
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25Yes, it's every bit as brainless as the trailers suggest.
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Works overtime for just a handful of chuckles and a few big yuks.
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25That's what The Bounty Hunter has rustled up -- along with a listless rom-com, a feeble thriller and a supporting cast of clueless characters.
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25If there's anything to like about The Bounty Hunter, it's Christine Baranski doing a Joan Rivers impersonation.
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25A painfully contrived romantic comedy/thriller that may (or may not) have brought Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston together as a real-life couple.
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25Perhaps tracking down the folks responsible for this film should be Milo's next assignment.
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25None of these complaints would matter if The Bounty Hunter possessed even a smidgen of inspired comedy. It doesn't.
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25Tennant and his actors have done the bare minimum to carry their lifeless movie past the finish line, and their apathy reads a lot like contempt.
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20This synthetic comedy is instantly grating.
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You know it’s bad when a caper comedy makes you long for the Goldie Hawn–Chevy Chase showcases of yore.
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20If "Midnight Run" and "His Girl Friday" had an unwanted, mutant baby, it would be The Bounty Hunter, a romantic comedy where the jokes sputter and die immediately after exiting the character’s mouths.
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20A comedy of remarriage that makes divorce look like a state of grace.
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12Someday, The Bounty Hunter and last month’s “Cop Out” will be featured in a cable movie double bill as the two worst 1988 films of 2010.
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Slack when it should be tight, dull when it needs to be sharp, The Bounty Hunter represents a failed attempt to make an Elmore Leonard movie without having to pay Elmore Leonard money.
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0Barely worthy of a legitimate theatrical release.
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At points, the film sinks below the level of competent.