The Big Bounce (2004 film)

Hawaii Crime Story (AKA The Big Bounce ) 2004 is an American gangster comedy with Owen Wilson in the lead role. It is the film adaptation of the novel The Big Bounce by Elmore Leonard, which appeared in 1969.

Action

The small-time crook Jack Ryan flees from his problems to Hawaii. There, he first tries to earn legal way money. When he literally beats on the hotel construction site of the unscrupulous entrepreneur Ray Ritchie on the side of the locals, he is fired. Once he is back from prison, calls him Ray's errand boy Bob Rogers to leave junior to the island. Jack remains, however, and managed to get a job in the bungalows of the district judge Walter Crewes. He also flirts with Ritchie's girlfriend Nancy. This tries to persuade him to steal the stored in Ray's weekend house mafia bribes. Jack is very suspicious, but anyway seems everyone he meets on Hawaii, to think primarily of themselves.

Criticism

The 2003 resulting film is not particularly popular with the critics and also a commercial disaster. The production cost was estimated $ 50 million, the film grossed at the box office but only $ 6,801,716 a.

Lisa Schwartzman compared the film in Entertainment Weekly with a guacamole dip. The film was " piquant and tasty " and pass " good for some chilled drinks" ( "It's served whipped and diced as casually as guacamole dip, tart and tasty and good with a couple of cold drinks. ").

Kevin Carr of " filmthreat.com " praised the cast, but criticized the lack of finesse of the story.

The Austin Chronicle described the film as " not only bad, but mostly just uninteresting " ( "The worst thing about Bounce is not that it's bad but it just did Is not interesting. ").

Background

The screenplay is based on Elmore Leonard's novel of 1969. This is his first to the "Crime " genre attributable to work after he had written especially Western.

The entire film was shot on the North Shore of Oahu. In the original book, the story is set in Detroit.

The novel was made ​​into a film in 1969 starring Ryan O'Neal and Leigh Taylor -Young in the lead roles.

Actually, even Kris Kristofferson played a larger role, but his part was cut out.

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