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“Hit and Run” serves predominantly as a showcase for the comedic style of its creator, actor Dax Shepard. Shepard’s filmmaking debut, “Brother’s Justice,” which he also co-directed with partner David Palmer in 2010, went silently, but here he’s convinced his fiancée, Kristen Bell, to co-star and snagged another A-lister in Bradley Cooper to elevate the film’s profile.
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The humor in “Hit and Run” can best be described as awkward. It’s a lot like “Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” in the way it constantly steps back to let the characters verbally break down the event,Wholesale Los Angeles Lakers Jerseys, action or tension that just happened or is happening on screen, only Shepard is less concerned with social taboos and all the characters of “Hit and Run” are a little mentally off in one way or another outside of the central couple.
Shepard plays Charlie Bronson, only that’s not his real name. He lives somewhere in hard-to- find California because he’s in Witness Protection after testifying against some bank robbers a few years back. Since then he’s started a new life and a serious romance with Annie (Bell),Nike Texans #17 Brock Osweiler White Womens Stitched NFL Elite Jersey, who doesn’t know much about his past. When Annie gets an incredible and nearly shoo-in dream job opportunity in Los Angeles — the city Charlie must specifically stay away from — he decides to risk taking her there.
Setting it all in motion is a small contrivance: Annie needs to bring her teaching certificate, which she left in a photo album at her ex-boyfriend, Gil’s (Michael Rosenbaum), house. Gil is still obsessed with Annie and convinced Charlie’s a rapist of some kind because of his shrouded past. Ultimately, he discovers Charlie’s real identity and in hopes of getting Annie back,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, contacts the very people Charlie must hide from, including Alexander Dmitri, a dreadlocked Cooper with an attitude problem.
It takes some time for all this to build, during which we’re treated to a lot of weirdness. Tom Arnold plays Randy, the incompetent U.S. marshal assigned to protect Charlie who must then take off after him when he leaves town, and to call him a klutz would be a gross understatement. He’s a running punch line in the film, which is fitting because Arnold is sort of a running punch line, but as you’re waiting for the tension to ratchet up in the movie, he’s frustratingly flattening it.
The slow first half of the film will immediately disappoint anyone looking for something high octane with lots of speeding cars and action. There’s plenty of spinning out, chasing and wrecks, plus peeks under the hood for bona fide car nerds, but this isn’t an action movie. |
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