"Bounty Hunters" is a vivid example of a film made in battered form. These things are good if you’re bored or want to watch something light at night. However, a significant disadvantage of such light films is that among them quite often there is garbage, and not necessarily low-budget. After all, creating really easy and relaxed films also requires effort, skills and talent, but as anyone can do, there would be enthusiasm.
The main characters are “two exes”. They are super cool, super smart and super beautiful. Retiring from business, ex-agents hit the business to somehow earn a living. And in order to find their super skills to use, the heroes begin to work as private bodyguards. It is with these and a couple of three templates that the film begins, stuffing it into the viewer in the first 10 minutes from the beginning. If there’s one thing I’ve been taught by the militants about “ex-boyfriends,” it’s that no matter how they try to get away from business and start a peaceful life, the villain’s fate will surely throw up a new surprise. As they say, there are no former agents. Therefore, after another failure, the employees of the PSC lightning quickly take on a new business, which turns into a series of stupid events.
Perfect banalism, passed off as a plot, is not so bad in itself. Worse, when it comes with heroes-stencils and bland gags, and as a bonus – plastic cast. In fact, nobody is trying in this movie. The scriptwriters gave a very mediocre product, the actors overplay, including the much loved Lee Min-ho, and the director at all, according to the sensations, was busy with something outsider during the shooting. Apparently, he relaxed after "Policeman on the podium."
As for the entourage of the film, it is a matter of taste. The special effects here will be better than in “Ice Fantasy”, but in general still do not reach the decency. In some places, the actors flying on cables will climb out with a limp curve, but this somehow compensates for the absence of truly funny jokes.
Positioning itself as a combination of comedy and action film, The Hunters doesn't properly reveal either of these genres. There is no spectacle here, because the main budget went to the actor's fees, not otherwise. The comedic element seems to be missing for the same reason. This film cannot be a parody, because the latter must not only have this element of humor, but does not wait to be taken seriously. “Agent Johnny English” Howit, “Two Zeros” by Gerard Pires, “Children of Spies” Rodriguez did not expect seriousness from the viewer, but are on a level higher if only because they abandon stereotyped heroes, changing them to an indefinite diplomat, two outright losers and a couple of kids. They behave accordingly, without transforming into someone else. In turn, the characters of Lee Min-ho and Wallace Chun look extremely unnatural, and everything that happens is stupid and fake.
As a result, the whole film is a kind of “popcorn” with flat jokes, frozen actors, obvious carelessness of the creators. There is no objective reason to watch this movie. The rest are mass.
“Bounty Hunters” is a dummy that lasted a week after the premiere of the top ten box office films in China. So, as the cockroaches sang, it remains to determine which of us has gone mad.
3 out of 10