Horrible Bosses

Horrible Bosses

I wanted to see this film in the cinema, and completely forgot about it until it appeared out on DVD about 4 – 5 weeks, I was very quick to snap it up and see what it was like. With a good cast like Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston and the brilliant Kevin Spacey, I thought this was going to be a brilliant film. Don’t get me wrong it’s a good film but it’s not brilliant.

The story goes that 3 men all have “Horrible Bosses” but when one of them takes another ones joke too seriously it ends up with the 3 of them planning to kill their “Horrible Bosses”.

The 3 Horrible Bosses are portrayed very well by Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farrell. Kevin Spacey plays the egotistical, know-it-all boss who only promotes himself in the organisation. Jennifer Anniston plays the sexy boss who wants to wind her colleague up, and she tries to persuade him to sleep with her even though he is engaged, this story comes with some hilarious consequences and finally Colin Farrell plays a boss who is hell bent in just laundering money out of his deceased father’s company to pay for his drug and prostitution habits.

The 3 colleagues are played by Jason Bateman (Kevin Spacey’s employee), Charlie Day (Jennifer Anniston’s employee) and Jason Sudeikis (Colin Farrell’s employee), all 3 of the actors play the parts of the disgruntled and harassed employees very well, and I can imagine that some of the situations unfortunately, are realistic. (Fortunate if you were Charlie Day’s character).

Throughout the film you feel like something is missing but you quite put your finger on it? It is a good film but I don’t think there are enough funny moments through out the film to keep you thoroughly entertained. Rather than being one great big great film, its broken up into small moments, and they do just enough, but never excel your expectations, which brings me to whether or not I thought it was funny.

I will leave that verdict up to you; I would recommend it purely based on it being quite realistic in some of the situations you can be put in the work place.

Overall, good film but only worth a rent.