Bride Hard

So when they said Bridehard and I saw Rebel Wilson on the poster, I was thinking Bridesmaids and pondering if Rebel had the guts to go the distance in comedy.

As it turns out Bridehard was a play on words for meaning Die Hard...At a wedding. Not a bad turnaround for a movie, but it was more funny than it was action-packed.

What sucks about that is that this movie was directed by Simon West. Back in the day, Simon West was a name that met action: Con Air, Tomb Raider, The Mechanic. To have the director's name on this, I wanted to see better than what I got when it comes to action. They could have gotten someone else to point and shoot the camera, and the movie would have been just as good, but having Simon West as a director means this movie could have been better, but it wasn't.

Best to see it for free on a streaming service.

A wedding day nobody expected, were mercenaries takes everybody hostage, and want something in a vault, and there only hope is a bridesmaid who's a secret agent.

Some action scenes are amusing, but not great. Rebel Wilson was alright in some scenes, when I felt she wasn't winking at the audience. Anna Camp acts like she drank too much coffee, to the point where she is way too animated to care about her as a character. Anna Chlumsky (My Girl) does steal some scenes. Justin Hartley is poorly wasted here. Now Stephen Dorf has the main bad guy, is watchable because he's quite straight forward, and pulls no punches, feeling like he's in a different movie all together.

Easily the worst release of the year so far, and I think it's in a prime position to take it all this year as the worst of the worst.

For a movie that steals most of its ideas from Bridesmaids (one of the best comedies of the 00s), it's surprising how unwatchable it is.

My girlfriend and I showed up to the theaters expecting an enjoyable movie and were baffled by the script. The pacing is insane, it yo-yos between rushing through emotional beats of the film and stopping dead minutes later to make a joke that lands with a thump.

The single redeeming element of this film is Da'Vine Joy Randolph. She gets the movie and nails every single shallow joke she has to make. She's the one reason we stayed in the theater.

It's sad what passes as 'comedy' this days.

I've watched it so that YOU, dear reader, don't have to.

It's like Bridesmaids and Die Hard had a baby. But they were both on substance abuse during that time. Action doesn't work, comedy doesn't work, it's chaos in worst possible way.

Some, rare jokes work, but 90% of "humor" is embarrassingly bad, forced and without any chemistry whatsoever. Without spoiling anything, it feels like bad parody of a bad parody at times.

That takes me to chemistry; Rebel Wilson does try to put some heart into it, but again, term that goes through my mind since I watched it - FORCED.

So, does it pass to kill some time? Only if your bar is low and your popcorn's salty.

Re-watch some 90s or early 2000s comedy instead.

Horrible acting, and even a worse plot. I find her funny in a couple movies but she acts to much the same in all of them and overall its just not funny or entertaining. Turn back the dial a bit and dont be so over the top and it honestly might be a good movie. Maybe im wrong, but I think the ratings speak for themselves. She's good in the right roll, this isn't it. But honestly, im sure its a blast to film and act in. You get to be a agent and jump around and act dumb. He'll id enjoy it too. Add getting paid and its the perfect roll. Its just not great as a viewer. Sorry, not sorry.

Watch at AMC on 6-23-2025.