One for the Money
2012 Directed by Julie Anne Robinson
Synopsis
She's looking for a few not-so-good men
Stephanie Plum (Katherine Heigl), an unemployed lingerie buyer, convinces her bail bondsman cousin, Vinnie (Patrick Fischler), to give her a shot as a bounty hunter. Her first assignment is to track down a former cop, Joe Morelli (Jason O'Mara), on the run for murder -- the same man who broke her heart years before. With the help of some friends and the best bounty hunter in the business, Ranger (Daniel Sunjata), she slowly learns what it takes to be a true bounty hunter.
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There is this weed that keeps popping up in my garden.
It seems indestructible.
It makes my garden ugly.
It just sits there. Doing nothing. Being a weed.
And whenever I get rid of it I just know it'll pop up somewhere else.
I have decided to call it Katherine Heigl.
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I never thought I’d say these words but I really wish I had re-watched The Bounty Hunter instead. As awful as that Butler-Aniston vehicle was at least it had a bit of energy, even if that energy was nauseating and annoying. In contrast, One for the Money, is a stupefyingly bland movie that is so utterly uninspired and driven by cynical commercial gain that the audience should feel offended just for watching.
Katherine Heigl stars as a recently unemployed lingerie saleswoman who inexplicably takes a job as a bounty hunter. Her first job is to collect the bail on an ex-boyfriend but she discovers that this won’t be an easy task. What ensues is a pedestrian story where none of…
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Sometimes you hear nothing but bad things about a film and think the plot sounds terrible. So when you watch it you have extremely low expectations therefore you are pleasantly surprised when it turns out to be a pretty good film.
One for the Money isn't one of those films, it is absolutely shit.
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Okay, what's with all the shitty reviews of this? It's not great, not even good really, but it's okay. It's just fluff that kept me kind of interested for 90 minutes. And there's nothing wrong with some fluff every now and then.
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Sometimes it's like I don't even know who I am anymore. I don't know why I watched this. I've been raiding redbox for anything remotely interesting looking and I got home to find this in the stack. I've never been a big Heigl fan, though she doesn't bother me as much as she bothers some people. The plot looks mildly amusing at best. I watched it anyway. I'd already paid for it.
Basically, it's pop crap noir for the can't-be-bothered-with-genuine-cleverness crowd and people who've never heard of Raymond Chandler or Elmore Leonard. I suppose it's sliced out for those that think a story is automatically better if the protagonist is a woman.
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I had no desire to see this one. To me, it seemed like it would be really lame and annoying. Shockingly enough, it was quite the opposite. The premise of a female bounty hunter was cool, especially given that she was going after the guy who took her virginity years ago. The cast was great. Heigl did a great job IMO. She made the role believable not because she was a bad ass, but because she was a female trying to do something new with her life and proving it to be awkward. Overall, it was very enjoyable.
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I love watching Katherine Heigl movies, because they make me feel so much more confident in my writing abilities.
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Heigl, along with this female-penned and female-directed excuse for a movie, continues the sad trend of presenting women as feeble, emotion-driven cleavage machines just waiting for the right guy to bail them out of trouble.
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It's fun. Not as fun as it wants to be, but fun. Heigl holds her own, but the script is just not good enough.
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I don't know too much about my stepmom. She lives in a different state, she works out to Jillian Michaels' exercise videos, and she loves mylar balloons. That's about it. Oh, and she adores the Stephanie Plum books. Now, I have never read these books, but if they are anything like this piece-of-shit movie then I guess I've learned one more thing about my stepmom; she has horrible, horrible taste. Stephanie Plum is probably the most unlikable character I have ever had the displeasure to watch for 90 minutes.
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Katherine Heigl is a rookie bounty hunter… Did you get bored reading that sentence? I got slightly bored typing it. Did you believe it? Of course you didn’t. It’s the type of pitch that shows up in films about lazy unimaginative, untalented Hollywood producers. It’s the sort of ingenious film pitch that instantly lets you know that this is a film that you absolutely, positively, don’t ever want to watch. Which is a shame because it’s not quite as bad as you’d expect.
Heigl is horribly miscast as Stephanie Plum, a recently unemployed, recently divorced ex-manager of a lingerie department. In need of a job she decides on a whim to become a bounty hunter, which she can do because…
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I was ready to hate it, but it wasn't that bad. It's not a very good movie, but its biggest problem is that it feels like a tv show -- and I would totally watch that tv show, so who's complaining? It scratches an itch.
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i actually watched this a few weeks back, thought i added it then but i must have missed it. good film, only vaguely silly and big on fun.
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Has this movie been sitting on a shelf somewhere, gathering dust? No. But the script certainly has, and it shows. This movie, and its predictable plot are all well past their sell by date. Debbie Reynolds is okay though.
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I don't know. This was just bad. Thankfully I watched it for free on Amazon Instant Video during my free month of Prime.