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Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: Slack is something The Big Bounce, even at a trifling 88 minutes, already has in abundance. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: The Big Bounce has all the earmarks of a project that has been laundered more times than the developer's money. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: The Big Bounce isn't offensive, or even terrible. It's just lazy, relying on numb moviegoers to fork over cash thinking they'll see the next Get Shorty or Out of Sight. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Like the frosty tropical drinks the people keep sipping here, it's refreshing and icy-cool, a sinful pleasure mixed by experts. Read more
Mary Brennan, Seattle Times: For all its twists and turns, Bounce never really goes anywhere. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The Big Bounce has all the earmarks of a project that has been whittled into incoherence in the editing room in a lunatic attempt to 'fix' it. Read more
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: There may once have been a real movie rattling inside the empty studio package known as The Big Bounce, but no longer. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The story has been so poked and prodded and spun around it barely knows how to end. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Bounce feels as dated and condescending as Blue Hawaii. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: Director George Armitage and screenwriter Sebastian Gutierrez have managed to hit every wrong note possible with this heavy-handed tale ... Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: The Big Bounce is an object lesson in the ways a promising film can go awry. It's a schooling we could have done without. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: By not trying too hard, this remake of a dumb movie has got spring in its step. Read more
Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News: One of the most soulless and least engaging films in recent memory. Read more
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, L.A. Weekly: It's Wilson who's the score here. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Given the talent involved on both sides of the camera and its sturdy literary pedigree, there's no way a movie could be this doughy and airy unless it was somehow by design. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The movie is as pleasant as a sea breeze, but it slacks in the substance department. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: The character of Jack is just a walking attitude, and the movie feels like a slapped-together joke. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: 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. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The movie is all over the place, never jelling into anything sharp or intriguing or funny. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The Big Bounce has many of the same problems as The Big Sleep, but few of its strengths. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie doesn't work. It meanders and drifts and riffs. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: 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. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: The director, George Armitage, has a good feel for laid-back, hipster black comedy but no impulse whatsoever to keep the narrative moving. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: This crime caper boasts a celebrity cast that makes for an impressive lobby card, but it turns out that the novelty casting is about all it has going for it. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The movie often feels content to be smugly second-rate: sun-stoned, underachieving and proud of it. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Given a choice between shovelling my driveway or going to see The Big Bounce again, I would choose the driveway. Read more
Benjamin Strong, Village Voice: Newcomer Foster cites Lauren Bacall as a precursor, but her ingenue fatale is more like a lost Olsen triplet. Read more