TAKE 1: One Man’s Opinion
…because
film is largely subjective
by Frederick William Springer
III
Hit & Run
Release Date: 22 August 2012 Runtime: 100 Minutes
Review Date: 16 September 2012 Rating: 4.5 (of 6)
I've become a fan
of Dax Shepard, watching him in Parenthood,
and here's a fun little film that he not only stars in but wrote and co-directed
as well. It also stars his real life
girlfriend Kristen Bell of Veronica Mars,
of which I'm also a fan, as his girlfriend and his Parenthood on-screen wife Joy Bryant as his ex-fiancé. Rounding out the cast is Tom Arnold, playing
a more bumbling, incompetent version of his True
Lies character and Bradley Cooper, whom I first took a shining to back on
the short-lived, underrated Jack & Bobby, playing the ex-best friend
out for vengeance helped in his quest by Smallville's
Michael Rosenbaum, not to mention Beau Bridges and Kristin Chenoweth in minor
roles and a cameo by Jason Bateman.
The gist of the
story is that Charles Bronson (Sheppard) is in the Witness Protection Program, Randy
(Arnold) his protector, in the middle of nowhere when his new girlfriend Annie (Bell),
who knows little of his past, is offered a dream job in L.A. where his criminal
exploits took place. He doesn't want to
lose her but doesn't want to hold her back, so he offers to take her
there. Craziness ensues when her ex Gil
(Rosenbaum) tries to keep the two from leaving together and contacts the guy
Bronson helped put away, Alex (Cooper), to arrange a trade-off.
The only thing a
little distracting to me, who notices the little plot holes that make no sense,
is when the County Sherriff (Gil's brother) of the original county, after a
full day's hot pursuit of the traveling Charles and Annie, at night fall pulls
over a vehicle (which happens to be Randy).
After even a quarter's day travel, they wouldn't have been in the same
county anymore and wouldn't have had any jurisdiction. But, other than that snafu, it's still quite
enjoyable.
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