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The Big Bounce (Full Screen Edition)Rating:
Release Date: 20 July, 2004 Retail Price: $19.96 OUR Price: $10.47 You SAVE: $9.49! Cast: |
The Big Bounce (Full Screen Edition) Reviews
God is just an imaginary friend for grown ups.
Pssshhh....I have seen month old garbage that seemed more appealing than this crooked caper. Just like the title suggests, The Big Bounce, is nothing more than a deeply contrived story that lacks in story, element, and excitement, and instead takes comfort in the ability to "bounce" us around from character to character in hopes that big names and Hawaiian scenery will help us forget about the plot. Well, Mr. Director, it did not. In fact, the poor story and lacking excitement only gives us this rotted taste in our mouths that somehow now surfaces whenever we see pictures of Hawaii, Owen Wilson, and Oscar winner Morgan Freeman. Who read these scripts before the actors jumped aboard? I am nearly certain that no actor in their right mind would have read this script and with the greatest pleasure, joined this production. I have no Earthly clue as to how director George Armitage found all these people and got them to sign the dotted line, but it is the only aspect of this film that he can be applauded for. Normally, when you see the names Morgan Freeman, Owen Wilson, and Gary Sinise, you are expecting some level of decency, yet that never seemed to arrive with The Big Bounce.
The top layer of icing on this disturbing cake were the actors. Years at Juliard thrown out the window when it came to this film. Apparently, the appeal of working in Hawaii for free was more appealing than actually doing work that you could be proud of. Apparently, the appeal of working in Hawaii proved better than any sort of million dollar pay scale that any of these fine, OSCAR-winning actors should deserve. Either way, the acting gave us nothing into the lives of these flimsy, nearly one-dimensional characters. The leader of this pact was Owen Wilson trying to give us a spin-off of his character from Bottle Rocket where these "cute" one-liners were allowed because Owen Wilson is so "cute" himself. Give me a break. He wasn't even acting in this film. There were moments where I thought I could see his character beginning to form, but then he opened his mouth and any sort of evidence crashed down on the hard floor. The same can easily be said for Freeman (which I never thought I would say about), Charlie Sheen (who was miserable in this film), and Gary Sinise (who just can't seem to cover evil that well). From the top of the list completely down to the bottom, nobody seemed to care about actually building a character, but instead just enjoying the sun and sand.
Then, as we dig deeper into this pathetic cake, we discover that not all the fault lies on the shoulder of the actors (though I would have to say that a major part does), but instead some of the dead weight of this film actually falls on the shoulders of George Armitage, director at large. He honestly makes us wait, the honest working people that paid for this film, until halfway through the film to begin bringing us into the heart of the story. I am nearly certain that this is not the way that Leonard would have penned it. We have short-term characters trying to give themselves a name in this film with nothing happening within the first hour. This is sad. This only causes more confusion and chaos as we slowly, at an ants pace, reach the middle of the film where we finally begin to see the inevitable clichés that follow this type of movie. Armitage takes no risks or any creativity in building our story from the ground up and honestly acts as if he is enjoy the sand and sun as much as the rest. He gives us nothing but bits and irrelevant pieces that show us nothing and give us even less.
Then, as if perhaps the bottom of this crunchy cake would finally provide us with something of substance, actually just proves to be yet another disappointing let down. Even when you think you know what is going on, Armitage throws that extra bit of unknown morsel your way to keep you guessing deep within the hours of the next morning. The only trouble is, I didn't care. When the ending of this film finally occurred, it stumped me for nearly three seconds as I realized that this wasn't the film that I needed to worry myself over. There wasn't any reason for me to be excited when this film started, and by God, there wasn't any reason for me to find myself loosing sleep over this convoluted ending either.
Armitage really did some damage with this film. Everyone, including the amateurish editor, took a holiday on this film. It is not a good sign when you watch the theatrical trailer to the film and then watch the film itself only to discover that half the scenes from the trailer didn't make the final cut of the film. Oh, how sad it is to see a film like this suffer. It had quite a bit of potential to break the common mold and provide at least several minutes of entertainment, but alas, it chose not to go the extra mile. The idea of spending more time on the film instead of on the beach collecting rays seemed to be the popular consensus with the cast and crew. Procrastination and poor workmanship seemed to be a hirer priority for these filmmakers and their final result will show it.
Grade: * out of *****
what happened?
horrible boring movie that neither funny nor entertaining.
though one actress: Anahit Minasyan is very pretty. thats it!!!
don't waste your money on this either to buy or to rent. its a really bore. its stupid and dull.
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