The Bounty Hunter Review

Messages: Aniston’s character is supposedly independent and successful, and yet she’s still painted as someone who’s fragile and incomplete unless she’s with a guy. And not just any guy, but one who -- what else? -- needs redeeming. Buried amid the rubble of unfunny jokes is an interesting, but hardly surprising message about how relationships crumble because of two people’s shortcomings, not usually one.

Role models: Milo and Nicole are supposed rough-and-tumble characters, and certainly nice enough, but he’s a caricature and she’s a contradiction. Though meant to portray a smart, sassy reporter, Nicole spends nearly the entire movie in impractical high heels and cleavage-baring tank top.

Violence: Loan sharks whack a guy’s leg with a golf club. Two men have a fistfight at a parade. A formerly-married couple bicker; she throws things at him, he insults her. Guns are drawn and fired; two characters are injured. A street chase results in an SUV careening off the road and rolling over. A guy is Tasered.

Sex: A couple banters flirtatiously. There’s talk of “getting laid" and many other references to sex. A seduction attempt includes someone being straddled. Very scantily clad (thongs, bras/pasties) women dance in a strip bar. A man and a woman kiss.

Language: Pretty pungent, indluding “ass,” “hell,” “s--t,” “pr--k,” "Goddamn," and “dick.”

Consumerism: Some logos for champagne (Moet); newspapers (Daily News); fast-food restaurants (Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin Robbins) and hotels (Trump Taj Mahal and Borgata).

Drinking, drugs and smoking: Stolen cocaine figures into the story, though nobody is shown using it. A main character is briefly seen drunk.