The Bounty Hunter

2010 "It's a Job. It Isn't Personal. Well, Maybe a Little..."
5.5| 1h50m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 19 March 2010 Released
Producted By: Columbia Pictures
Country: United States of America
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Milo Boyd, a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, thinks he's seeing an upswing in fortune when he gets a call to bring in his bail-jumping ex-wife, a reporter named Nicole. Milo considers the job an easy payday, but Nicole quickly escapes to chase a lead on a murder case. The former spouses play an escalating game of one-upmanship, until they suddenly find themselves on the run for their lives.

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TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film
Evengyny Thanks for the memories!
Portia Hilton Blistering performances.
Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
mm-39 The Bounty Hunter sounded like a great idea, but did not transfer well to film. The beginning was strong. Butler the ex-husband gets to arrest his ex-wife Aniston when his wife skips bail. There is a cat an mouse game as Butler toys with his ex! The beginning of the movie gained my attention. Regrettably the middle of The Bounty Hunter is a patch work of comic devices where some scenes are funny, and other scenes bomb. The ending has a mix of corrupt cops and comedy which mixes two disjointed sub-plots together. The Bounty Hunter's ending is more cruel than romantic. I found the ending tries to hard to be funny. The Bounty Hunter is a good idea for a movie, but lacks in execution. Five or six stars out of 10!
slightlymad22 Jennifer Aniston movie career is very hit and miss to say the least, for every "Horrible Bosses" or "We're The Millers" there is a "The Switch" or "Management".Plot In A Paragraph: Reporter Nicole Hurley (Jennifer Aniston) skips bail to follow a hot lead. Her ex husband Milo Boyd (Gerrard Butler) is given the dream job of chasing down his ex wife. Sadly this is the latter, ridiculously predictable, with two leads who have little chemistry (despite rumours of an alleged off screen romance) and few jokes, this is not the fun romp I was expecting. Butler does OK, but the stars of the show are Jason Sudeikis (as a sleazy co worker of Aniston) and Christine Baranski (as Aniston's mother Kitty) who steal every scene they are in, and quite frankly the movie is poorer when they are not on screen. I'll admit from the off, that I am bias when it comes to Aniston. I love her. With her gorgeous girl next door looks, I adore her, and will usually give anything she is in a chance. she remains one of the most talented and beautiful women in movies, and her ladylike sexiness is in rare supply. Any movie becomes promising just by having her name in it's cast. But she needs to pick her projects better than this.
hjahangiry A wanted felon and a bounty hunter, an ex-wife and an ex-husband. A couple divorced and resentful of one another are drawn together after the husband becomes hunter and the wife huntee. Nicole Hurley (Jennifer Aniston) who works in the Daily News is a wanted felon for assaulting police, grazing an NYPD police horse with her car when she was in hurry for a press conference. She was on bail and had a trial meeting but four minutes before the trial begins, she gets a call for an emergency meeting for her story of a suicide and by ditching her lawyer, she goes to her appointment which leads the judge to order bench warrant on her case. Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler) is an ex-cop for police force who was fired for neglect of duty and now works with the police department as a bounty hunter but himself is looked for by a retail mob called Irene for owing her money. Milo gets offered five grand to find his ex-wife and take her to the jail. Nicole works on the suicide story of Walter Lilly, an employee of police storage department, who according to a police report signed by Bobby has jumped off a building but she suspects that it was a murder because Walter was afraid of height and he was riven to the street on his head which apparently in suicide cases they fall on their feet. Bobby, their mutual friend, is Milo's ex-colleague at police department who walked Nicole down the aisle at her wedding! He bails out Milo when he gets arrested for setting fire in the 4th of July parade in a bounty hunting chase. Milo finds Nicole at her exact place in a horse race stadium in Atlanta City based on his knowing of her and her lucky letter, "D", which surprises her. "Who has a lucky letter?" he mocks her. Their running and chasings later involve other people as well as Irene's men and Bobby's golf pal who is his other colleague in force. Nicole is Milo's good luck and temptation lock. She can easily trick her to gamble by tempting him and her blow on his dices can bring him good luck and when it (her blowing) eliminated, he seems to be losing. The magnet between them is so powerful that despite pushing each other away, some inner more powerful force draws them back together. In spite of their taking the blame at the Cupid's Cabin where they used to spend their anniversaries, we never exactly know why they split up though there are small mentions in dialogues during the movie, but we know for sure that they were madly in love before they got divorced. The resentful humor between Milo and Nicole has clear signs of their history which doesn't seem to lack love. Gerard Butler's prior performance in The Ugly Truth (2009) along with Katherine Heigl finds a sequel in The Bounty Hunter (2010) with co-acting of non-aging Jennifer Aniston who for herself has a long term of comedy-romance performance e.g. the NBC TV show Friends (1994-2004) which is a perfect example of her tireless performance carrier in this genre. They both have pulled off their roles so perfectly that sometimes exceeds the movie itself as if the other events happening around them doesn't matter. Movie itself is an action comedy-romance which has been somehow successful in terms of directing, screenplay, and editing. But what are the most successful and high point for this feature are the sound tracks and the score music which combining with pictures at some points illustrate the whole scenes alone needless to any dialogue. At the end The Bounty Hunter is an amusing movie which can bring joy at the time of watching it and can make your day after hours of work.
Brandon Blackwell A bounty hunter learns that his next target is his ex-wife, a reporter working on a murder cover-up. Soon after their reunion, the always-at-odds duo find themselves on a run-for-their-lives adventure.I really don't understand why I had the urge to sit down and even attempt to watch this, but the Bounty Hunter is closely resembled to Killers, while had gotten a 1. Bounty Hunter is entertainting, and a bit funny, but everything is tumbled down to execution. The directors nor did the screenwriters care anything about what they were doing, and I wasn't too impressed overall. IF you don't care about anything or real film-making, sure, knock yourself out. But just be warned, the film is just another, and another meaning not too special. 3/10.