#1 The Bounty Hunter
December 25th 2010 17:01
Okay my first movie on my quest for 365 is The Bounty Hunter starring Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler.
The Movie was directed by Andy Tennant who directed other hits like Hitch or Sweet Home Alabama to name a few.
Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler) is a former NYPD detective who now works as a down-on-his-luck bail enforcement agent (bounty hunter). For instance, he accidentally causes a fire while apprehending his latest bounty through a Fourth of July parade, and is arrested as well.
Milo's ex-wife, Nicole Hurley (Jennifer Aniston) is an investigative reporter who was arrested for assaulting a police officer (as she later clarifies, she grazed a patrol horse with her car in her rush to get to a press conference). When she receives a hot tip on a story she is working on - an apparent suicide that may actually have been a murder - she skips her bond hearing to meet with her informant, causing the judge to revoke her bail and issue a warrant for her arrest. Unfortunately, just before Nicole arrives, her informant, Jimmy (Adam Rose) is kidnapped.
Milo is ecstatic when Nicole's bail bondsman, Sid (Jeff Garlin) offers him the job of tracking down Nicole and bringing her to jail, for a bounty of $5,000. After questioning Nicole's mother Kitty (Christine Baranski) (a cabaret singer in Atlantic City), and with his own intimate knowledge of Nicole's habits, Milo apprehends her at a race track in New Jersey, throws her into his car trunk and drives back towards Manhattan. Nicole tries to beg, threaten, or con her way of out Milo's clutches, but only manages to escape briefly before he catches up with her again.
Neither is aware that they are being stalked: Milo by two thugs sent by a bookie named Irene (Cathy Moriarty), because of outstanding gambling debts; Nicole by criminal Earl Mahler (Peter Greene), who is connected with the story she is investigating; and both of them by Nicole's lovestruck coworker Stuart (Jason Sudeikis), bent on "rescuing" her.
Mahler catches up with them and tries to kill Nicole, and the two of them narrowly escape. At first, Milo is not interested in explanations, until Nicole admits that she's found evidence that implicates their mutual friend, Bobby (Dorian Missick), Milo's ex-partner on the police force. Angry, Milo decides to investigate the crime with her and determine what is going on.
Clues from Earl's car lead them to a country club, and they learn from a crooked caddy that Earl owns a tattoo parlor in New Jersey, and they start to make their way there. Bobby contacts them and warns the pair to stay off the road.
By coincidence, the nearest hotel is "Cupid's Cabin," the bed and breakfast where they spent their honeymoon. Each realizes the other has feelings for each other, but Nicole overhears a phone conversation between Milo and Sid, Milo stating that he may or may not sleep with Nicole that night, but he's taking her to jail nevertheless. Infuriated, she handcuffs Milo to the bed and makes her way to the tattoo parlor herself, finding Jimmy and freeing him before she is captured by Irene's thugs, still looking for Milo.
Milo tracks her down and rescues her. He calls an old friend from the police force to track down Bobby, and learns that he is on his way to the police's evidence warehouse, which is being relocated to a new building. Inside the warehouse, Bobby confronts Earl, who used to be his friend, and has used Bobby's name to gain access to the warehouse and steal a large amount of confiscated narcotics and cash. When Bobby says he is going to arrest Earl, Earl draws a gun and shoots him, though not fatally. Milo and Nicole enter the warehouse and Milo is ambushed by Earl, but forced to surrender when Nicole points a shotgun at him.
As Bobby is being seen to by paramedics, he explains that Earl was using him, and earlier the man who supposedly committed suicide, to gain access to the warehouse. Bobby was suspicious, but there was no proof, and was waiting for Earl to make his move before arresting him. Milo proudly notes that Earl might have gotten away with it, if Nicole hadn't picked up certain clues. He and Nicole appear to have reconciled, and concede to each other that sometimes their jobs have to come before each other. By way of demonstrating this realization, Milo then turns Nicole into the police, so she can make her court hearing the next day.
But on his way out of the precinct, Milo runs into a cop who insulted him earlier, and punches him in the face, leading to him being arrested and put in a cell next to Nicole's. He reminds her that it is their anniversary, and they have to spend it together, no matter what. Through the bars they admit their love to each other, and kiss.
Ok, This movie was very average and i do not recommened buying it. This movie is about a 3.5 on my ten scale. I really don't see me ever watching it again but you never know how bored you might get.
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