Gun Shy

Slate David Edelstein

A grave screwball comedy. Its gags aren't just hilarious -- they have a weighty, plaintive soul.

The New York Times A.O. Scott

One of the most subtle and inspired comedies you'll see this year.

LA Weekly Chuck Wilson

A smooth little comedy deserving of more studio support than it got.

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

Thanks to the first-time filmmaker's attention to character, Gun Shy is worth at least a shot at a matinee.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

The bathroom jokes in Gun Shy wear thin.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

A mildly amusing but forgettable and way-too-scatological black farce.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

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.

Variety Robert Koehler

A textbook case in which the parts are greater than the whole.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

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.

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?

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The big trouble here is that there seem to be pieces of three different films rubbing up against each other without ever fitting together.

Film.com John Hartl

Neeson might as well have phoned this one in.

USA Today Mike Clark

Can't stars attract better scripts than this?

Film.com Tom Keogh

Gun Shy can't rise on wobbly legs, and its real potential is lost for good.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

This low-caliber Gun Shy has singularly ugly cinematography by Tom Richmond that at one point shows off Bullock's facial hair.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack

It's implausible, cartoonishly overdrawn.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Blakeney's script contains more hackneyed dialogue and misfired jokes per minute than would seem possible, and the result embarrasses every actor in it.

Village Voice Michael Atkinson

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.

TNT RoughCut Don Kaye

We're just over a month into 2000 and already there's a candidate for the year's worst picture.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

A half hour in and still, the plot, tone, and setting are incomprehensible.