The Big Bounce (2004)
Average Rating: 4/10
Reviews Counted: 133
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 112
An inert movie with few laughs, The Big Bounce is a big waste of talent.
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 33
An inert movie with few laughs, The Big Bounce is a big waste of talent.
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George Armitage directs this big-screen adaptation of Elmore Leonard's The Big Bounce. Jack Ryan (Owen Wilson) is an occasional thief who tends to a judge (Morgan Freeman). A woman involved with Ray Ritchie (Gary Sinese), a real estate developer of questionable ethics, seduces Jack. Ritchie and the judge are old enemies, complicating Jack's moral dilemma when the girls asks Jack to help her double-cross Ritchie. The book was adapted once before with Ryan O'Neal in the Owen Wilson role. ~ Perry
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Cast
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Owen Wilson
Jack Ryan -
Morgan Freeman
Walter Crewes -
Gary Sinise
Ray Ritchie -
Sara Foster
Nancy Hayes -
Willie Nelson
Joe Lurie -
Vinnie Jones
Lou Harris -
Bebe Neuwirth
Alison Ritchie -
Charlie Sheen
Bob Rogers Jr. -
Harry Dean Stanton
Bob Rogers Sr. -
Andrew Wilson
Ned Coleman -
Steve Jones
Dick -
Anahit Minasyan
Virginia (No. 9) -
Gregory Sporleder
Frank Pizzarro -
Wendy Thorlakson
Wendy the Party Planner -
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All Critics (141) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (115) | DVD (23)
Newcomer Foster cites Lauren Bacall as a precursor, but her ingénue fatale is more like a lost Olsen triplet.
Top CriticEverything here is too mild, too sloppy.
The story has been so poked and prodded and spun around it barely knows how to end.
Boring, unsexy, styleless, sluggish and physically ugly.
Insipid potboiler set against the far more enticing surf and sand of Oahu's North Shore.
Given a choice between shovelling my driveway or going to see The Big Bounce again, I would choose the driveway.
Missing: this movie's plot.
Not a bad film, despite what you may have heard, but there is no doubt it should have been a lot better.
With gorgeous Hawaiian cinematography, a charming Owen Wilson, and a clever script, I found it eminently enjoyable.
...more emphasis on characterizations and plot turns and less attention on incidental locales and irrelevant filler would have helped.
This movie is all looks and no brains.
Does Elmore Leonard sell the rights to his novels only after filmmakers agree to use The Isely Brothers' "It's Your Thing" on the soundtrack? Inquiring minds....
It's sexy, offbeat fun for the most part, but it's way too laid-back for its own good and, in the end, obstinately refuses to be anything more than the sum of its highly promising parts.
Yet another screen adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel, but this one just doesn't work.
Never comes together into anything remotely interesting.
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