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Craig Younkin
Movie Review
The Big Bounce
By Craig Younkin Published February 2, 2004
US Release: January 30, 2004
Directed by: George Armitage
Starring: Owen Wilson , Charlie Sheen , Vinnie Jones , Gregory Sporleder
PG-13
Running Time: 88 minutes
Domestic Box Office: $6,471,000
Directed by: George Armitage
Starring: Owen Wilson , Charlie Sheen , Vinnie Jones , Gregory Sporleder
PG-13
Running Time: 88 minutes
Domestic Box Office: $6,471,000
D+
Goes down as one of the worst adaptations of any book ever written.
The Big Bounce is based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, but once this movie ends you may actually be tempted to borrow the book just to see if it isn't just a lot of blank pages strung together. This movie goes down as one of the worst adaptations of any book ever written. The editing is sloppy, the pacing is dreadfully slow, it's miscast, and the worst thing about it is that it seems to be about nothing at all.
The story, if you can even call it that, takes place in Hawaii where petty thief Jack Ryan (Owen Wilson) hopes to begin a new life in construction. His boss is Ray Ritchie (Gary Sinise), a hotel mogul who has angered the locals by choosing to build one on sacred land. During a televised picket, Jack gets into a fight with his foreman (Vinnie Jones), forcing him to go right back to where he started from, breaking and entering. This aspect of his life attracts Ray's mistress, Nancy Hayes (Sara Foster), who has a thing for the criminal type. She has a plan to steal money from Ray and asks for Jack's help.
Other members of the cast include Morgan Freeman (as a resort manager and local lawman), Charlie Sheen (as Ray's right hand man), Bebe Neuwirth (as Ray's wife), and Harry Dean Stanton and Willie Nelson also put in little cameos as well. But all this impressive-looking cast does is inspire the question: why would anybody be attracted to something so slight and boring as this movie?
I'm giving this movie a D+ but when I walked out, I felt like giving it an "I" for incomplete ? there is just nothing going on in this movie at all. It is so vague that director George Armitage continuously uses shots of the beautiful Hawaii resort and of people surfing in order to kill time, and still the movie is under an hour and a half, although it feels like so much longer. You will start looking at your watch before the hour is up.
Otherwise, the time is basically taken up by Wilson and Foster, who seem to be in a romance but don?t generate any sparks at all. Wilson again is his laid back, jokester self and Foster is a beautiful woman, but they are really miscast here. Wilson doesn't seem the type to be a petty thief and Foster's performance is no way smart enough to have us mistake her for a heist organizer. And isn't this movie a heist film? If so, then why do they wait till the last ten minutes to actually focus on the heist?
The Big Bounce is a movie that focuses on nothing and deserves nothing in return. Had it not been for Wilson's usual witty delivery and Foster's incredible looking body (the latter gets an A), this would have been completely unwatchable. This Big Bounce is more like a loud thud.
The story, if you can even call it that, takes place in Hawaii where petty thief Jack Ryan (Owen Wilson) hopes to begin a new life in construction. His boss is Ray Ritchie (Gary Sinise), a hotel mogul who has angered the locals by choosing to build one on sacred land. During a televised picket, Jack gets into a fight with his foreman (Vinnie Jones), forcing him to go right back to where he started from, breaking and entering. This aspect of his life attracts Ray's mistress, Nancy Hayes (Sara Foster), who has a thing for the criminal type. She has a plan to steal money from Ray and asks for Jack's help.
Other members of the cast include Morgan Freeman (as a resort manager and local lawman), Charlie Sheen (as Ray's right hand man), Bebe Neuwirth (as Ray's wife), and Harry Dean Stanton and Willie Nelson also put in little cameos as well. But all this impressive-looking cast does is inspire the question: why would anybody be attracted to something so slight and boring as this movie?
I'm giving this movie a D+ but when I walked out, I felt like giving it an "I" for incomplete ? there is just nothing going on in this movie at all. It is so vague that director George Armitage continuously uses shots of the beautiful Hawaii resort and of people surfing in order to kill time, and still the movie is under an hour and a half, although it feels like so much longer. You will start looking at your watch before the hour is up.
Otherwise, the time is basically taken up by Wilson and Foster, who seem to be in a romance but don?t generate any sparks at all. Wilson again is his laid back, jokester self and Foster is a beautiful woman, but they are really miscast here. Wilson doesn't seem the type to be a petty thief and Foster's performance is no way smart enough to have us mistake her for a heist organizer. And isn't this movie a heist film? If so, then why do they wait till the last ten minutes to actually focus on the heist?
The Big Bounce is a movie that focuses on nothing and deserves nothing in return. Had it not been for Wilson's usual witty delivery and Foster's incredible looking body (the latter gets an A), this would have been completely unwatchable. This Big Bounce is more like a loud thud.
Craig's Grade: D+
Craig's Overall Grading: 340 graded movies
| A | 10.9% | |
| B | 41.8% | |
| C | 31.8% | |
| D | 15.3% | |
| F | 0.3% |
