Bride Hard

This is a mindless comedy that isn't exceptionally funny. The acting is poor, the plot is poor, the jokes are contrived and totally expected. There are no surprises in this movie. The editing and continuity was done by an amateurs as I pointed out in Goofs. If you are a Rebel Wilson fan (which I am), you'll probably see the movie and then wish you'd waited for it to stream. Even then, it will prove to be a waste of 1 hour 45 minutes of your life. Rebel Wilson't stunt double was pretty good, but the director had to make these stunt sequences at a distance or with the face away from the camera. Definitely a low budget film with low budget crew.

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.

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.

Boy was this painful to watch. Not funny or good. Rehashed story. Rebel Wilson stunt double was so far off looking like her. Rebel ponytail stunt double no ponytail. Brutal movie. Wait for streaming and save your money from the theater. You would be better off going to see something else. I was amazed that this was even worth a review. Whoever came up with the script was not worthy of a paycheck. I was amazed how few patrons where watching this movie in the theater. I went to the first show on a Saturday afternoon and maybe there were 25 people there and I was being generous at that. Trailer has the funniest parts of the movie.

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.