Bebe Neuwirth, Charlie Sheen, Gary Sinise
A small-time con artist and a Hawaiian real estate developer's mischevious, enterprising mistress team up for a potential $200,000 score.
DVD Release Date: July 20, 2004
Stats: 517 reviews
Y'know this looked like an excuse for everyone to have fun in Hawaii. It actually didn't bother me. It's a laid back crime comedy. I approached it the same way.
Frank: I'm desperate for this money and we're friend, right?
Jack Ryan: Yeah, we're friends. But, you know, it's the type of friendship where if you're in trouble, I probably won't be there for you. Just like I wouldn't expect you to be there for me. It's a more honest friendship...( read more)
If it's based on a Elmore Leonard novel (Out of Sight, Get Shorty and 3:10 To Yuma) and stars the guy who wrote The Royal Tenenbaums it must be great, right? Wrong. It gets credit for a good cast but loses major points for just not being funny. The sooner you forget it the better.
They got a good cast together to make this film, but it's all for naught. The actors are mostly naturally charming, including Foster, who has good screen-presence even if her career, like this film, never went anywhere. I typically like Leonard adaptations, as it's hard to screw ...( read more)
One of those con-man films where everybody has a motive and you don't find out who was "actually" conning who till the very end - which comes quickly. This is a short film and the "reveal" at the end is very non-thrilling. Even with such a great cast the film can't rise above med...( read more)
nice ... if you have faith & a little luck everything will always be right :D
In every other way, The Big Bounce is a dreadful exercise, with a script full of contradictions and empty gestures and a leading lady who's such a novice it hurts to watch her. full review
The movie often feels content to be smugly second-rate: sun-stoned, underachieving and proud of it. full review
The movie doesn't work. It meanders and drifts and riffs. full review
Except for a rare scene of shaggy charm, nothing works. Nothing. full review
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
Does crime novelist Elmore Leonard sell the movie rights to his novels only after the filmmakers agree to use The Isely Brothers' "It's Your Thing" on the soundtrack? full review
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