Release: The Bounty Hunter

 

The Bounty Hunter

Genre: Action

Director: Zack Snyder

Writer: Jacob Jones

Cast: Chris Evans, Mackenzie Davis, Michael Cimino, Maya Hawke, Redding Munsell, Zach Roerig

Budget: $85,000,000

Domestic Box Office: $46,900,222

Foreign Box Office: $33,194,206

Total Profit: -$53,001,701

Reaction: Definitely a disappointment following the studio's recent success and writer Jacob Jones' success earlier this season with Double Date.

"The Bounty Hunter is a gritty, stripped down action film that mostly succeeds on getting by on physicality and emotion rather than spectacle. The action itself is a bit more straight-forward than I was expecting from a Zack Snyder film, but it's mostly effective. Star Chris Evans does his best in the title role, even if he seems miscast as an aging boxing champ. He does manage to sell the desperation and does a good job with the father-son dynamic central to the plot, helping add stakes to an otherwise familiar story." - Derek Halston, Iron City Film Review

"The Bounty Hunter feels assembled from the most generic pieces of modern action cinema. The action and fight scenes, by the end, feel repetitive and never escalate in a meaningful way. Chris Evans is a puzzling fit as a battered, blue-collar bruiser, never fully convincing. The supporting cast only compounds the issue—Michael Cimino is strikingly unconvincing as a villain, lacking menace or credibility, while the rest of the ensemble feels miscast or underwritten. Combined with a predictable story and a title that sounds pulled from a stock template, the film ultimately struggles to make an impact." - Calvin Bryce, The Overlook Dispatch

"The Bounty Hunter feels like a much smaller, simpler movie awkwardly stretched into something bigger than it needs to be. The script leans heavily on exposition and coincidence, while Tony and Rat swing wildly between quirky comic villains and genuinely violent psychopaths without much connective tissue. Chris Evans does what he can but is clearly miscast and he struggles to make the “Frank the Tank” material feel anything but unintentionally goofy. There are some decent moments, but the plotting gets repetitive, and the rapid and frequent tonal shifts from scrappy action comedy to life-or-death hostage thriller can be jarring." - Gregory Fletcher, Los Angeles Times-Journal

Rated R for action violence and language