Stephanie Plum (Katherine Heigl) hasn't worked in 6 months, so, unable to land
a normal rom-com job (like a
cookbook editor
or
English Literature professor / homicide detective
or
divine influencer), she takes a job as a bounty hunter and, naturally, the very
first person she goes looking for, just happens to be a beau hunk that
she banged in high school and still carries a torch for! (Just so you know:
there were around 7,200,000,000 humans on Earth in 2012.) He's innocent (of
murder!!!), of course, but nobody believes it, so it's up to her and him to
prove his innocence. Not sure exactly how that's paying her bills though.
Zero nudity, lightweight cussing, Debbie Reynolds shooting a stuffed turkey in
“the gumpy” (whatever the fuck a gumpy is), bland direction, tame
script that takes no chances, average acting, good pace. As far as films of
this nature go, ONE FOR THE MONEY is okay. The story is silly as fuck
and the danger elements are just kind of laughed off in a bizarre way that
left me scratching my handsome head, but whatever...I didn't go into this film
expecting anything deep.
