Is it worth $10? No

For Milo, this is an ex-husband’s dream: His job as a bounty hunter requires him to bring his ex-wife Nicole to jail. They clearly have a love-hate relationship, although why exactly they dislike one another as intensely as they do is left unknown. In fact, a lot of the logic “The Bounty Hunter” requires is left unknown, leaving a flat and unfunny movie with fun performances from the leads and little else.

Milo (Gerard Butler) gets the job after Nicole (Jennifer Aniston), a newspaper reporter, skips a court appearance to investigate a supposed suicide. With the help of her mother (Christine Baranski), Milo tracks Nicole down in Atlantic City and starts to bring her back to New York. She escapes, he catches her again, and they return to Atlantic City so she can dupe him into gambling and she can try to escape again. No wonder Milo can’t get her to New York: The plot won’t let him.

Milo also gets pulled into the suicide investigation storyline, which includes a villain who’s either a cop or tattoo artist or both, a cop (Dorian Missick) who may or may not be in on a conspiracy, and a lowly bartender (Adam Rose) with too much information. Other unnecessary subplots include Nicole’s co-worker (an unfunny Jason Sudeikis) who thinks they have a “thing” going, and Milo’s own gambling debts.

Aniston looks good as she almost always does, and Butler brings an appropriate gruffness to Milo that makes it easy to see why Nicole would love and hate him at the same time. But director Andy Tennant is never able to get all the pieces moving in the same direction, and when the laughs aren’t coming everything feels uninspired. A better movie would’ve cut out the excess and given Aniston and Butler great material to work with. As is the movie is average and instantly forgettable.

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