Video: Critics: Jen Aniston's New Movie Is "Dreck, Terrible, Brainless"
Ouch.
The critics have rendered their verdicts on Jennifer Aniston's new flick The Bounty Hunter.
In the romantic comedy/crime caper, Aniston plays a bail-jumping NYC journalist on the run from her bounty hunter ex-husband, played by Gerard Butler.
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"Here is a film with no need to exist," charges Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times. Ebert concedes that Aniston has been "very funny" in past films, "but not in dreck like this. Lacking any degree of character development, it handcuffs her to a plot of exhausted action comedy cliches -- and also to a car door and a bed."
"Yes, it's every bit as brainless as the trailers suggest," the Miami Herald spews. "Skip the nachos. Dialogue like [this] will ensure you won't keep them down for long."
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch calls it "terrible," sniping that Aniston "resorts to sitcom schtick."
The New York Times, meanwhile, dismisses talk of Aniston and rumored fling Butler's supposed chemistry. Onscreen, the couple don't "give the slightest indication that they belong together, except by virtue of having signed contracts to appear in this movie," writes critic A.O. Scott. Their roles are "blunted, dumbed-down caricatures of notional human beings, rather than sharply etched epitomes of human behavior."
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What did Us Weekly's Senior Film Editor Bradley Jacobs have to say about the flick? Watch our video (above!) and find out!
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97Jenifer Aniston didn't even regconize herself is ugly and boring? I'm sorry for her and her producers. All of them are stuppid and blind trying to make more stuppid movies with the no talent and boring acttress.
JENIFER ANISTON DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO ACT. MOST OF HER MVIES SHE ACT BY HANDS . I'M SUPRICE THE WOMEN LIKE JEN IS NO TALENT, UGLY, OLD STILL MAKING MOVIES EVEN VERY BAD MOVIE?SHE SHOULD QUIT ACTING , FIND SOMEONE, MARRY AN DISSAPEAR FOREVER. I HATE TO SEE HER SHOW THE UGLY BORING FACE AND THE PLASTIC BODY. SHE NONE OF PRETTY. SHE EXTREME UGLY
well renee, that aint facts. first of all, you DO sound like a hater, second of all, she CAN act, and stating the fact she doesn't have children is just cruel. have you considered the fact that maybe she can't have children? what a bunch of heartless b!tches
A little to close for comfort I think.
She plays the same character, in the same movie over and over again because 1)She can't play anything else. 2) She isn't offered anything else 3.) She needs to constantly have something to promote so she will not be "forgotten" and 4) for the money. The woman has very little talent and her looks will slowly but surely start to fade. She will be a 40+ lady with no children, no men, no accolades. And she will be known as "the chick Brad Pitt dumped for Angelina Jolie" until the day she dies. The end. I'm actually not a Jen hater (not a lover either...) just stating the facts!
fu*ck him! I loved the movie! it was hilarious, besides Jen and Gerry made a great team in the movie! And fu*ck all the haters, why do you ALWAYS have to mention Angie when this is ALL ABOUT JEN? They are both great women, the only sucked up is Brad, so stop hating you suckers!
WHY OH WHY do we bring up Angie or Brad in EVERYTIME Jen name is mention. L
How much longer do we have to listen to her stupid antics? This is an old and baggy horseface whose time has long ago expired. I think she pays off the media to show her in a "successful" woman. Please go beyond this has-been.
She is all about PHOTO OPS so that they appear to be this big happy family! Angelina is so desperate to keep Brad with her, that she is using the children as a weapon to keep him from walking out on her! She is at her ropes end when it comes to finding ways to keep Brad from leaving her in the dust. Brad is deperate himself to find a way to seperate himself from the control of Angelina and her manipulations. He loves his children and knows she stands no chance of keeping him away from the 3 children they have together, but is worried about what is going to happen with the children that are not biologically his. Angelina is threatening to cut him off from them and to make sure that HE NEVER SEES THEM if he so much as thinks of even traveling without her. Angie is so scared that Brad, like others, will walk away as soon as they can find an out and never look back. Who can blame them? She is not what she appears to be, and Brad, like so many others before him, found out too late that this woman is wicked. Oh the tangles web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! Brad, oh Brad, you make it really hard to feel for you, but not all hope is gone. Angelina can't keep your children away from you, and all hope is not lost, you will find a way to rid yourself of this fraud you have made the mother of your desperatly wanted children.
Not only is Aniston a hack, but so is this reviewer. Just goes to show you why US rag shouldn't be in the business of critiquing movies, saying the movie is a steaming hot pile is one thing, but trying to sell future issues on the back of Aniston's PR fauxmances that your crappy weekly bought into is pretty hilarious. Oh, and all this review tells me, is that you didn't actually SEE the movie, Aniston looked like 20 miles of bad road in it, and her face is the only thing that doesn't remind me of Rachel Green. 4 nose jobs, juvaderm and restylane later and it still is no improvment.
Jen, Jen, Jen ..... we absolutely love you. You are so talented (obviously, or you would never have won an emmys, golden globes and SAG awards) but seriously, you need to look at the script more carefully. I hope the 2011 movies with Baldwin and Kidman is awesome. Good Luck! P.S. Aniston haters, Tomb Raider and basically 75% of CrazyHusbandStealer (aka angelina jolie)'s movies have received terrible reviews.
Oh please I doubt that either Jen or Gerard bother to study the psychology of a character. They are not classically trained or trained for that matter.
Her fans are, poor, poor sorry people. Aniston and company should be charged with false advertisement or sued.The only reason I went to see her dud of a movie is because of the promotion, that hooked me, what a waste of money Aniston is a very rich woman she should return the money to all the people that went to see her crappy movie. Butler & aniston knew that movie wa crappy that is why they advertising it so much.
The trailer was better than the movie. Even though I love Jen she could've done better..seems like it's the same role over & over. The only reason I didn't walk out of the theater was bcuz of Gerard! (makes me want 2 c 300 again! :O) p.s. SANDY Gerard Butler is a very versatile actor(Phantom, Reign of Fire, Dracula etc.)although I must say, lately he 2 has fallen in2 these type of "comedic" roles that are not suited for him. Comedy is not his best strength, he should stick to Drama. (Now that we are on this topic, I am being reminded of Vince Vaughn playing the same roles over & over 2, but that's another story)
I swear Jennifer Aniston chooses to make the stupidest movies. I think she sucks at making movie she should just stick with tv sitoms.
i don't think the movie will be terrible, the trailer looked kinda fun. i mean it depends who's gonna go watch it, i'm in my late teens and gonna go watch it with my friends, can't wait!
I saw the Bounty Hunter and LOVED IT! I don't go to the movies to have to think! I already have enough to think and be concern about...I go to enjoy!!!!!!!!!!! LOVED IT!
I would love to do her in the rear end
I saw the preview for The Bounty Hunter and I have to say that, that was enough for me! I said to my husband "wow, that movie looks awful". I love Jennifer Anniston but I have say that the movie looks terrible. I'll wait till it hits t.v probably before I ever see it. I was a bit dissapointed to see Gerard and Jen in a movie like this. I hope they pick a better movie to role in the next time around!
who gives a sh#t about what critics think? it's not like they have millions of fans who adore them and support them