Dax Shepard, eh? He wrote, directed and starred in this one. With a very promising cast – Dax played Charlie Bronson, a witness protection participant. His wife Kristen Bell played his girlfriend Annie – wow, what a stretch. Tom Arnold played US Marshal Randy, the always good and always funny Kristin Chenoweth played Annie’s boss Debby. Bradley Cooper played Alexi – the Russian (seriously?) criminal Charlie had testified against. In a smaller role, Beau Bridges played Charlie’s dad.
This was supposed to be a comedy, however, right off the bat, there was an extended scene with Tom Arnold as a ridiculously incompetent US Marshal that was so unfunny it was cringe-worthy. Almost every ensuing scene followed suit. I think I chuckled three or four times throughout this entire train-wreck of a movie. Even as a car guy, the car scenes/chases were badly overdone and too long – obvious filler for the lack of real plot in this hideous heap of hokum.
I have to expound upon Tom Arnold – Jiminy Christmas. he is either very good in a movie (i.e. True Lies) or God awful. Sadly, this one was the latter. To make matters worse, his stunt double (and those of other actors in this movie) were painfully obvious during physical scenes – another hallmark of a shitty movie.
Suffice to say, Dax shouldn’t quit his day job – i.e. as Mister Kristen Bell. And doing the occasional refrigerator commercial. There were no “hits” in this one – my advise is RUN, don’t walk, RUN as far away from this flick as possible. Two lame burnouts out of ten.