Not bad, it was nice. It had two actors I like, though, not sure I’d have liked it otherwise. The plot is very very obvious, it has bits of fun and bits of “come on! move on please”. The movie is all about its two lead actors, it has nothing else. I mean, there were other actors, like Siobhan Fallon playing Teresa, and she’s always funny, she has an unforgettable face even for me, and there’s Christine Baranski playing Nicole’s mum, but they have like a couple of scenes and no more. I liked Dorian Missick playing Bobby, the cop who is a good friend of our couple, but he also has a very small role. There was no space for anything other than our lead characters and their cat&mouse/love relationship. On the other hand the character of Stuart was on for too long in my opinion. Was that supposed to be the funny sidekick? A loser stalking her? A guy she kissed one night when she was drunk, lonely and heartbroken, the most fragile moment of her life? A guy that can’t accept a no after the billions of times she’s said to him that there is nothing and never will be between them?
I didn’t find it funny. I disliked every scene with him.
The rest is a mix of lovers fight and action police work. Nicole (Jennifer Aniston) is a journalist working on a case. She also has a little problem with the State because she was arrested (I don’t know, maybe for fighting with an officer that contested her something) and was granted bail and now she has to appear in court, but that same morning her informant calls her with important informations, so she runs away to meet him and stays on the case when she can’t find him because he’s been abducted.
Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler) is Nicole’s ex-husband, an ex-police officer, and now a bounty hunter whose next assignment is to catch Nicole and take her to jail. He thinks it’s Christmas!
The chase starts. He tracks her down and from that moment it’s all a sequence of ‘she runs away, he catches her, she runs away, he catches her’.. nothing original. A nice scene was when he first caught her, trying to run away in a taxi. He takes out his gun, she says you want to shoot me?, and he says no, but I’ll shoot the taxi driver, so of course every cabbie now locks his car and then he throws her over his shoulder first and then into the car-truck.
To make the movie longer there are two complications: Milo has a big gambling debt, so there are two men on his tail; second thing, Nicole’s informant gave out her name so she’s followed by a murderer/drug-dealer who wants to kill her.
During all this they also find the time to talk about their marriage/divorce… everything pretty predictable of course. They’ll solve her case and also patch up things between them (the debt is still there though).
The things I liked were Jennifer Aniston (her character was just ok) and the fact that at the end their cop friend was not corrupt at all. The sweetest scene was not the end (when he accepts that she’ll put her job first sometimes and says he’ll have to do the same sometimes, right before turning her in to the police to complete his own job, but then hits an unfriendly cop to get arrested and spend the night in a cell next to her for their anniversary); to me the sweetest scene was when she saw a poster-ad of the place where they spent their honeymoon in and starts crying and looking at her he understands this time she’s crying for real, because he can tell the difference, and becomes more soft. That little scene was the sweetest moment of the whole movie.
Milo was not very agreeable, to tell the truth. Gerard Butler is charming, but Milo isn’t. He’s an arrogant, a drunk with a gambling problem.
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