| 90 |
Slate
A grave screwball comedy. Its gags aren't just hilarious -- they have a weighty, plaintive soul.
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| 90 |
The New York Times
One of the most subtle and inspired comedies you'll see this year.
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| 70 |
LA Weekly
A smooth little comedy deserving of more studio support than it got.
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| 65 |
Mr. Showbiz
Thanks to the first-time filmmaker's attention to character, Gun Shy is worth at least a shot at a matinee.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
The bathroom jokes in Gun Shy wear thin.
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A mildly amusing but forgettable and way-too-scatological black farce.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
The story isn't nearly as funny or suspenseful as it would like to be, although the solid cast gives it occasional dashes of pizazz.
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| 50 |
Variety
A textbook case in which the parts are greater than the whole.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
Blakeney can't decide if this is a quirky romantic comedy or a quirky mob essay, and you can see the movie thinking itself into a rhythmless hole with cement shoes.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
Eric Harrison
What use is journeyman acting, quality set design and a kicky, eclectic score in a movie that's so ineptly scripted?
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| 40 |
TV Guide
The big trouble here is that there seem to be pieces of three different films rubbing up against each other without ever fitting together.
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| 40 |
Film.com
Neeson might as well have phoned this one in.
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| 38 |
USA Today
Can't stars attract better scripts than this?
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| 30 |
Film.com
Gun Shy can't rise on wobbly legs, and its real potential is lost for good.
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| 25 |
New York Post
This low-caliber Gun Shy has singularly ugly cinematography by Tom Richmond that at one point shows off Bullock's facial hair.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
It's implausible, cartoonishly overdrawn.
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| 25 |
New York Daily News
Blakeney's script contains more hackneyed dialogue and misfired jokes per minute than would seem possible, and the result embarrasses every actor in it.
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| 20 |
Village Voice
It's the casting of Liam Neeson as the nervous breakdown that turns the movie to asphalt -- it's like watching Andre the Giant play Woody Allen.
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| 5 |
TNT RoughCut
Don Kaye
We're just over a month into 2000 and already there's a candidate for the year's worst picture.
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| 0 |
Entertainment Weekly
A half hour in and still, the plot, tone, and setting are incomprehensible.
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