Bounce (2000) Critic Reviews
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Watching Bounce, you look at him (Affleck) and believe how much he's got at stake, and you look at Paltrow and know why.Read the full review
It's a love story, yes, but one whose sweetness is cut by honest performances, a sharply drawn supporting cast and a fairly serious, yet never self-pitying, tone.Read the full review
In movies with this story structure, all depends on the precise timing of the delay and the revelation, and Bounce misses. Not by a lot, but by enough.Read the full review
Bounce may be far from a great film, but its pleasures are consistent enough to remind you of how few movies nowadays come anywhere close to matching it in intelligence and emotional balance.Read the full review
Something is missing in Bounce, the muted dynamic of which calls forth a perhaps inevitably muted reaction.Read the full review
Simultaneously contrived and genuinely felt.Read the full review
Surprisingly tepid and soapy.Read the full review
Truth is, Affleck and Paltrow flunk Chemistry 101. They aren't believable even as a fake couple.Read the full review
Affleck and Paltrow, who've been excellent elsewhere, display less chemistry than they've shown in magazine photo shoots. Even Woody and Bo Peep had more going on between them in "Toy Story" than these two manage here.Read the full review
