Bride Hard
Bride Hard is a dumb comedy stuck in the middle of a bad spy film. I'm not sure how it made it into theaters. Perhaps no streaming service would take it. Rebel Wilson stars as Sam, an unorthodox spy who manages to get in trouble both at work and with her friends when she attempts to merge a mission in Paris with her childhood best-friend's bachelorette party. Put on leave, Sam attempts to mend fences with Besty (Anna Camp) showing up to her wedding despite being downgraded from maid of honor, in favor of Betsy's annoying new sister-in-law (Anna Chlumsky), to last among the bridesmaids. However, when armed terrorists show up to rob the rich family Betsy is marrying into, Sam puts the skills she's kept secret from her friend to use.
Nothing about Shaina Steinberg's script makes sense as it's little more than a loose framework for various antics by Rebel Wilson fighting of baddies in the most slapstick ways possible or attempting to mend fences with Bessy and the other bridesmaids (Chlumsky, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Gigi Zumbado). The other characters are all one-note including the complete forgettable bad guys led by Stephen Dorff. There is a hot second with the introduction of Justin Hartley, providing a short bonding moment with Sam, where we're offered a flicker of hope this sinking ship might have a life raft, but it soon becomes obvious director Simon West's film has no idea what to do with him, either.
Bride Hard is a lazy film built around a single joke of how funny it would be for Rebel Wilson to be a spy who is somehow both really bad and really good at her job depending on what's needed from one scene to the next. The joke doesn't land, and what we're left with is a pretty painful 105 minutes of the film trying to retell it anyway, over and over again.
Watch the trailer- Title: Bride Hard
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