Philip French 

The Bounty Hunter

Rogue cop Peter Greene is the only spark of life in this threadbare comedy-thriller, writes Philip French
  
  

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Jennifer Aniston in The Bounty Hunter. Photograph: Barry Wetcher SMPSP Photograph: Barry Wetcher SMPSP/PR

The charmless Gerard Butler and the charming Jennifer Aniston are brought together as a former husband and wife, he a cop-turned-bounty hunter, she a leading tabloid reporter, in a threadbare combination of screwball comedy and thriller. He's hired by a bail bondsman to bring her from Atlantic City to Manhattan after she's failed to appear in court on a charge of attacking a cop in the course of her journalistic activities. Meanwhile the lives of both are endangered by the film's one spark of life, a rogue cop played by the genuinely scary Peter Greene, (the sadistic cop on whose ass Ving Rhames threatened to "get medieval" in Pulp Fiction).

 

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