By all accounts, a universally-panned movie that scraped together a Rotten Tomatoes score of 12 percent and landed Razzie nominations for Worst Picture, Worst Actor, Worst Actress, and Worst Screen Couple wouldn’t stand out as a box office smash hit, but a whole lot of people shelled out to see The Bounty Hunter on the big screen.
The light and breezy comic crime caper with hints of action and romance is a reliable genre, to be fair, but even then it was a shock when director Andy Tennant’s cinematic dumpster fire put its foot on the gas to make off with a box office haul of $136 million against production costs of $45 million.
Even 13 years later and it continues to blow away any preconceptions that awful films end up consigned to the history books in an instant, with FlixPatrol naming the dreadful road trip romp as being right on the cusp of breaking into Netflix’s global Top 20 having seized hold of a Top 10 spot in multiple countries around the world.
Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston are popular stars, but their banal bickering grows real old real quick as the former’s bounty hunter ends up embarking on an unexpected whirlwind after being tasked to bring in the latter’s bail-jumper, who also happens to be his ex-wife. Every bit as predictable as it is uninteresting, it’s somehow conspired to emerge as one of the most popular films on the market-leading streaming service in spite of its reputation.
Published: Apr 22, 2023 02:21 am