A wanted felon and a bounty hunter, an ex-wife and an ex-husband. A couple divorced and resentful of one another are drawn together after the husband becomes hunter and the wife huntee. Nicole Hurley (Jennifer Aniston) who works in the Daily News is a wanted felon for assaulting police, grazing an NYPD police horse with her car when she was in hurry for a press conference. She was on bail and had a trial meeting but four minutes before the trial begins, she gets a call for an emergency meeting for her story of a suicide and by ditching her lawyer, she goes to her appointment which leads the judge to order bench warrant on her case. Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler) is an ex-cop for police force who was fired for neglect of duty and now works with the police department as a bounty hunter but himself is looked for by a retail mob called Irene for owing her money. Milo gets offered five grand to find his ex-wife and take her to the jail. Nicole works on the suicide story of Walter Lilly, an employee of police storage department, who according to a police report signed by Bobby has jumped off a building but she suspects that it was a murder because Walter was afraid of height and he was riven to the street on his head which apparently in suicide cases they fall on their feet. Bobby, their mutual friend, is Milo's ex-colleague at police department who walked Nicole down the aisle at her wedding! He bails out Milo when he gets arrested for setting fire in the 4th of July parade in a bounty hunting chase. Milo finds Nicole at her exact place in a horse race stadium in Atlanta City based on his knowing of her and her lucky letter, "D", which surprises her. "Who has a lucky letter?" he mocks her. Their running and chasings later involve other people as well as Irene's men and Bobby's golf pal who is his other colleague in force. Nicole is Milo's good luck and temptation lock. She can easily trick her to gamble by tempting him and her blow on his dices can bring him good luck and when it (her blowing) eliminated, he seems to be losing. The magnet between them is so powerful that despite pushing each other away, some inner more powerful force draws them back together. In spite of their taking the blame at the Cupid's Cabin where they used to spend their anniversaries, we never exactly know why they split up though there are small mentions in dialogues during the movie, but we know for sure that they were madly in love before they got divorced. The resentful humor between Milo and Nicole has clear signs of their history which doesn't seem to lack love. Gerard Butler's prior performance in The Ugly Truth (2009) along with Katherine Heigl finds a sequel in The Bounty Hunter (2010) with co-acting of non-aging Jennifer Aniston who for herself has a long term of comedy-romance performance e.g. the NBC TV show Friends (1994-2004) which is a perfect example of her tireless performance carrier in this genre. They both have pulled off their roles so perfectly that sometimes exceeds the movie itself as if the other events happening around them doesn't matter. Movie itself is an action comedy-romance which has been somehow successful in terms of directing, screenplay, and editing. But what are the most successful and high point for this feature are the sound tracks and the score music which combining with pictures at some points illustrate the whole scenes alone needless to any dialogue. At the end The Bounty Hunter is an amusing movie which can bring joy at the time of watching it and can make your day after hours of work.
Review of The Bounty Hunter
