Review of The Bucket List (2007) by Carol F — 06 Feb 2013

The Bucket List is a bucket O' shit... so creative I know :) Where to start with this abysmal excuse for a movie. First there was the embarrassing use of blue screen, I mean just how small was this movie's budget that these two supposedly modern Hollywood acting legends are pretending to be on top of a pyramid in Egypt when it so obviously looks like a set complete with fake Pyramid looking rocks. Secondly the script is a load of shit, to put it mildly. Overloaded with sentimentality for characters we are given no reason to care about except that they have cancer and are going to die, big whoop. Thirdly the 'bucket list' itself is stupid. All it does is show what you can do in life if you have a dying millionaire (or simply a lot of money) at your disposal. The activities they embark on merely provide fun, no big life lessons or experiences, and the audience is merely watching two old men race cars around a track, sky dive etc and well that's it. No deep messages, oh wait that's right they become friends how nice... but surely you shouldn't have to watch a movie for an hour and half simply to see two men become friends.

Anyway I could rant about this movie for a while because it insults movie watchers and is a huge pile of sap, and on a note about the acting - Morgan Freeman is docile and Jack Nicholson is well beyond his acting prime. Sure they're not given much script wise but far out they suck. One thing I cannot stand is old, fat, unattractive men (Nicholson) supposedly being able to score hot, young women well into their geriatric years, give me a fucking break! There is no substance to this plot, to the characters or to the entire film.