Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

said-buet10 A lot can be said about the plot. A normal girl suddenly decides to chase and apprehend criminals for money without any previous experience in fighting or handling guns. I mean seriously!! And on top of that the guy she is chasing is the guy she lost her virginity to, can this be any more cheesy! And she should've been killed multiple times in this movie.The acting was just par. I love Katherine but those almost nude scenes felt absolutely unnecessary. I obviously enjoyed the display of this beautiful lady's body but still unnecessary.In my opinion this is a just OK comedy, watch it at your own risk.

Maria Trim I don't know i must be easily pleased or its my age 66, but the reviews are a bit off for this film, I must watch a different movie. I really enjoyed it, paid £2.49 through Amazon to watch it, and spent a great couple of hours just chilling out, and having fun watching it. Its a crime romp with Katherine Heigl and the yummy Jason O'Mara so there is eye candy for both male and female. The plot is explained so i wont go there, just all I can say is if you want something to watch, and you like comedy, romance and a bit of crime romp then you cant go wrong with this. Its fun I am not sure I would have paid to see in cinema but to watch it for the price I did, lets face it, what can you get really for 2.49 nowadays so its worth the money. Go on you know you want too.

kmayes-80640 I will preface this by saying I am an avid reader of these books, but I also recognize that production companies have liberties to change some of the content when they buy the film rights for any type of book series. HOWEVER, we all know that there are production companies and writing teams out there that have done a much better, much more respectful job at translating a story from book to screen. One that comes to mind is Outlander. This movie was a mess. I didn't mind Heigl as Stephanie, I didn't mind that they clearly used Pittsburgh instead of Jersey, what I did mind was the major deviations they took with the script and with character casting. Some of the casting they got spot on, some it was so bad it makes me shake my head and wonder if the casting agents ever spoke with Evanovich (the author) or read any of the books, all of which gave very, very descriptive pictures of the characters. Heigl, eh, she was OK, her accent sucked, but I can handle it. One thing that irked me was the clothes they put her in in several scenes. Those who have read the books know they were out of character for Stephanie and distract from what was going on in the scene. Vinnie, Connie, and Lula? Spot on, great job. Grandma Mazur? As much as I love Debbie Reynolds, she is not at all Grandma Mazur, she is regular described in the book as not aging well with a body like a soup chicken. She's feisty, over the top, and really old. Now, in spite of all of those not so flattering characteristics, I think Cloris Leachman would have been much better. Another not so great casting choice was Daniel Sunjata. He wasn't the worst guy who could have been picked for Ranger, but there were much better choices. Ranger is a former Army Special Forces Cuban American in his early to mid thirties. He's shorter than Morrelli and some times has long hair pulled back in a pony tail. He barely says anything except Babe, exudes sexiness, he's mysterious and dangerous, and is the best bond enforcement agent. Stephanie secretly thinks he's Batman. Where was ANY of that in the movie? He talked away too much and Sunjata didn't use an accent. The Jersey/Cuban accent was part of the sexiness about him. Adam Rodriguez would have been better. The casting choice that partly ruined the movie was the guy they cast for Morrelli. They chose Jason O'Mara a born and raised Irishman to play the Italian of all Italian Stallions (book reference) Joseph Morrelli. Morrelli is a Trenton cop, mostly reformed bad boy/womanizer. He's not allowed to wear a uniform on the job because he would look like a casino pit boss. He's over 6 feet tall, has dark eyes, classic Italian good looks, and dark wavy hair. Nothing about O'Mara remotely resembled or was able to translate to be Morrelli. Although they did remember a slightly obscure detail: Morrelli's tattoo from his Navy days. A much better choice, Joe Manganiello. He actually is Italian American. We all know he's drop dead sexy and can act as seen in multiple films/TV shows. The other part that made it so terrible is that they took out a lot of the more violent parts of the plot and added in other elements that were supposed to be funny and weren't. I watched an interview with Janet Evanovich and she said they did this to appeal to a greater audience. That was a bad decision. The dialogue sucked. Many of the lines sounded like they were wrote by middle school students. The movie plot focused a lot on one aspect of the relationships that is not so heavily used in the book. I realize that with films there is a great deal that has to be compacted to fit in about 90 minutes, but these changes were again disrespectful to the source material and the characters. Outlander is another adapted book to screen series that has has a huge following for the books and now the show. It has deviations from the books, but they do not stray so far from the source material that you are left scratching your heads. It all works beautifully. It is VERY popular. However, it's on Starz which gives it the space and the rating room that it needs to be properly adapted from the books. Furthermore, one of the key scenes was severely watered down to where the impact of the violence is not as devastating as it needed to be. I assume this was watered down to get the PG-13 rating and again appeal to a wider audience under the umbrella of light, popcorn romantic comedies. Evanovich's books are funny, they don't go too deep, but they were raunchier, more violent, and smarter than what this disaster of a film was. I gladly have paid money to watch a rated r Stephanie Plum movie and I'm sure that a lot of other Plum fans would too. The movie bombed and no surprise. Hopefully, Netflix or HBO/Starz/Showtime kind of channels will pick it up and give it the room and the time that it needs to be as awesome as the books are.

Rena Smith I like this movie. Admittedly, there are no great surprises and if you've read the books you'll pretty much know what happens, but otherwise, people would be outraged that creative license was taken.I won't got into the details of the plot. Some Reviewer's wrote that's it's impossible to like this movie if you're a fan of the books. And while I accept that this is their view, I can't say that I agree. The plot in the movie generally follows the book, with a few deviations, but None of them dramatic. Some Reviewer's have complained that Big Blue was 70s and not 50s and while this is true, I can't say that it really mattered to me. It was a total boat, that's the main thing.For the most part, the casting is good. I was skeptical about the main cast, especially when I saw stills of the movie. I thought Heigl was too pretty to be Stephanie and the lead men on the other hand were not handsome enough. But that turned out to be unfounded, once I was watching the movie, they seemed perfect. Some have complained that Ranger smiles too much, but when you read the book and have time to develop the character, that's fine. If you just have a few Scenes in a movie, that would seem creepy. So I think they made a good choice. Anyway. It's not like he's running around with a constant girn on his face. He's suitably subdued and I think Daniel Sunjata did a very good Job of portraying Ranger. Lula and Connie are great, Vinnie is excellent, the only let-down was Grandma Mazur. I had imagined her to be tiny and wiry and she wasn't. She sat wrong with me, but maybe that's just my impression. And even that didn't matter too much to me.Bottom line, I don't understand why this movie gets so much stick. It's fine. I was going to rate it seven, but am going to rate it eight because the 5-something rating seems ridiculously low to me. Make up your own mind. But take it from a fan of the books: It is NOT impossible to like this movie.