Bride Hard

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.

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.

This is EASILY top three worst movies of all time, at least the ones I've seen. The acting from everyone is absolutely horrendous and continues to deteriorate as the movie progresses. It baffles me how not even the monologues are delivered well. How do you mess up a monologue in an action movie? And the jokes. Ill timed, written horribly or just simply delivered horribly. The plot of the movie is also just inexplicably bad. Action sequences are not that entertaining and some of the sequences make no sense logically. I wanted to walk out of the theater so many times but I paid for a ticket so I stayed. If this movie was free on streaming right now, I wouldn't even bother watching it. So all in all, I do not recommend watching this movie, ever.

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.

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.