The Big Bounce: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 1 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 140 reviews

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

75

By not trying too hard, this remake of a dumb movie has got spring in its step.
Full Review » 8 years ago
A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

40

Coming at the end of a dismal and frigid January, the second screen adaptation of Elmore Leonard's first foray into crime fiction is like a paid Hawaiian vacation -- somebody else's.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

75

Though the first Bounce had no comedy, this version has a lot.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post (Top Critic)

Boring, unsexy, styleless, sluggish and physically ugly.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

Insipid potboiler set against the far more enticing surf and sand of Oahu's North Shore.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

25

The Big Bounce has all the earmarks of a project that has been whittled into incoherence in the editing room in a lunatic attempt to 'fix' it.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Benjamin Strong Village Voice (Top Critic)

Newcomer Foster cites Lauren Bacall as a precursor, but her ingenue fatale is more like a lost Olsen triplet.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jami Bernard New York Daily News (Top Critic)

50

The character of Jack is just a walking attitude, and the movie feels like a slapped-together joke.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Bruce Westbrook Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

17

Bounce feels as dated and condescending as Blue Hawaii.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Matt Weitz Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

34

One of the most soulless and least engaging films in recent memory.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Lisa Kennedy Denver Post (Top Critic)

38

The Big Bounce is an object lesson in the ways a promising film can go awry. It's a schooling we could have done without.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

50

The movie doesn't work. It meanders and drifts and riffs.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

75

Like the frosty tropical drinks the people keep sipping here, it's refreshing and icy-cool, a sinful pleasure mixed by experts.
Full Review » 8 years ago
J. R. Jones Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

25

The story has been so poked and prodded and spun around it barely knows how to end.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

50

While Wilson and his partners in crime make for a pretty impressive cast, the movie doesn't hang together. In fact, it practically falls off the screen in shards.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jeff Strickler Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

38

This crime caper boasts a celebrity cast that makes for an impressive lobby card, but it turns out that the novelty casting is about all it has going for it.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

40

The Big Bounce is great entertainment if you enjoy watching Morgan Freeman play dominoes.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Joe Leydon Variety (Top Critic)

Full Review » 3 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

50

So utterly inconsequential it fades from memory long before it's even over.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

40

The movie is all over the place, never jelling into anything sharp or intriguing or funny.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Peter Howell Toronto Star (Top Critic)

20

Given a choice between shovelling my driveway or going to see The Big Bounce again, I would choose the driveway.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

The movie often feels content to be smugly second-rate: sun-stoned, underachieving and proud of it.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Charles Taylor Salon.com (Top Critic)

Everything here is too mild, too sloppy.
Full Review » 8 years ago
David Edelstein Slate (Top Critic)

The director, George Armitage, has a good feel for laid-back, hipster black comedy but no impulse whatsoever to keep the narrative moving.
Full Review » 8 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

63

The Big Bounce has many of the same problems as The Big Sleep, but few of its strengths.
Full Review » 8 years ago