The star makes for a charmless lead in a rubbishy attempt to mash a female-led wedding comedy and an action caper
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n Apple’s 2023 car crash Ghosted, things went from worse to genuinely never been this bad when the sounds of Uptown Funk erupted during another shoddily choreographed action sequence. It was a marriage so heinous that one would be tempted to think it was parody had it not existed in a film so entirely devoid of humour and self-awareness. The Chris Evans/Ana de Armas vehicle became the new nadir of the action comedy, a subgenre that has been run down into the sewer by streamers, carelessly cobbling together big stars and bad quips on an almost weekly basis.
But as dreadful as it was, there was something fascinatingly dreadful about it, a cacophony of bad decisions that became almost instructive to the industry in its of-the-moment awfulness. In this week’s Bride Hard, the latest tinny genre mix to get chucked at us, when Rebel Wilson’s shoddy kitchen-based fight scene is scored to Geri Halliwell’s It’s Raining Men, you’ll be too bored to even roll your eyes, if you’re even awake at that point.
The awfulness of Bride Hard just isn’t worth pointing and laughing at, it’s the kind of joyless slog that pushes you to check out early and never gives you reason to check back in. Even in a season where we’re somewhat forced to be a little more forgiving given the limited options, this really is as bad as it gets (and it’s gotten to be pretty bad already).
