This week on DVD is "Horrible Bosses" with Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudekis and Jason Bateman.
I saw this one in theatres and it was "pretty good" on first watch, but nothing I'd pay to see again. The acting is infinitely better than the plot. Kevin Spacey, Aniston and the rest of the bosses acting are better than the workers, the bosses are more seasoned actors than the workers, but the workers are funny and the movies flows relatively well from scene to scene.
The plot of HB is simple: I hate my boss, my buddies hate their bosses. Hey, let’s kill them. So they consult a hit man and hire one to kill their bosses. Simple plot, and that’s where is dies. Like I said, the acting saves this movie. If it had a worse cast it would be up for multiple Raspberry awards, but the vets Spacey and Aniston offset the likes of Bateman, Sudekis and Charlie Day, who are good in their own right, but cannot hold a movie without a good plot.
If you didn’t see this in theatres, you didn’t miss much, the DVD/Bluray release has some shorts and deleted scenes but if you’re not a fan of the black comedy genre or the actors (This isn’t even one of Aniston’s better recent movies, “Just Go with It” was much better) wait for it on PPV or Netflix.
