Many people point to this film when they say that Kevin Smith can’t hack it has a director of anything other than his own material and while I agree that his strengths are with things that he has complete editorial control over, I disagree with the idea that this is a bad film. The story is great, the jokes all land, and for better or worse, Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan both prove why they’re appreciated by so many. The worst I can say about it is that this is an antiquated type of movie with elements that aren’t done all that much these days.
As a side note, I remember this movie as the first movie that I ever watched from the treadmill that I had at the time. I walked the entire thing and I think I ended up doing about 7 miles. It ended up doing me more harm than good though because it started a cycle of doing too much on the treadmill, then not using it for weeks on end.
That wasn’t the movie’s fault.
