Grüße und Vorstellung » Shepard is excellent in his own part

Hit & Run has a clear Rasul Douglas Womens Jersey , entertaining vision and is made with a strong, unique voice, something missing from too many films these days. It is not quite a great film, but it is a very good one, and I absolutely recommend it as one of the most satisfying cinematic experiences of the summer.


I went into Hit & Run with relatively low expectations, and left not only pleasantly surprised, but excited to share my enthusiasm for the film with others. This delightful little comedy is the work of Dax Shepard, a comic I have never been particularly impressed with in the past. But if Hit & Run is a success 鈥?and it鈥檚 certainly appealing enough to please a very wide audience 鈥?it will put Shepard on the map in a big way, for he not only stars in the film Josh Sweat Womens Jersey , but co-directs, writes, produces, and edits. He fulfills each task so well and with such impressive artistic authority that he absolutely deserves whatever notoriety the film will earn him, and I very much look forward to seeing where he goes from here.


Shepard and real-life fianc茅 Kristen Bell star as Charlie and Anna, a couple living together in a small Midwestern town. Anna鈥檚 there because despite having an impressive Doctorate degree, there are few colleges that cater to her field of study. Charlie, meanwhile, was relocated to the town after testifying against a gang of bank robbers and entering Witness Protection. Charlie is able to leave if he wants Avonte Maddox Womens Jersey , but the one place he cannot go is Los Angeles, where the gang leader, who served only minimal prison time, lives. Things become complicated, therefore, when Anna is offered a lucrative dream job in LA, the very city Charlie must avoid. Throwing caution to the wind, Charlie decides to go with her anyway, but 鈥?


鈥?See Alshon Jeffery Womens Jersey , this is where things get weird. I love how and why things get weird, but it鈥檚 awfully hard to describe in text the central conflict of the film. It involves Anna鈥檚 insanely jealous ex-boyfriend, Charlie鈥檚 overly protective, completely incompetent witness protection handler, a couple of well meaning cops, and Alex Dimitri, the man Charlie testified against. All of them, at one point or another, wind up on Charlie and Anna鈥檚 tail. Charlie Jordan Hicks Womens Jersey , in an impressive racing car he built with his Dad long ago, must eventually engage in elaborate chases with all of them.


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If I described to you exactly how all these seemingly divergent elements fit together, you would tell me there is no possible way it could all work coherently in one comedy. And in the film鈥檚 early going, that鈥檚 exactly what I thought as well. Shepard puts a ton of balls up in the air 鈥?those I have described plus a dark backstory for his character, the ongoing romance with Anna, lots of characters and related subplots, etc. 鈥?and the most impressive thing about Hit & Run is that he handles close to all of them well. The film is a veritable cornucopia of tones, styles, and characters Nelson Agholor Womens Jersey , but it all comes together rather seamlessly, and the beautifully controlled chaos is simply a joy to watch, especially with a receptive crowd.


First and foremost, Shepard鈥檚 script does a tremendous job with the characters. There are a ton of big personalities on display here, but each is very well defined, perfectly calculated to play a specific part in the zany proceedings. My crowd was particularly smitten with Tom Arnold鈥檚 Randy, the lovable, ineffectual Marshall assigned to protect Charlie. He鈥檚 a hoot, and the script walks a fine Sidney Jones Womens Jersey , precise line between mocking his ineptitude and mining organic laughs from his good, pure heart. Bradley Cooper too is a standout, playing wildly against type as the robber out to exact revenge on Charlie. The film gets markedly better in its second half when all these pieces are in play, and each of the characters start bouncing off one another with strong comedic effectiveness.


Yet the insanity of the supporting cast is always grounded by the central couple. I bought Charlie and Anna as genuine lovers right from the beginning, and a whole lot of the first act coasts by on their natural chemistry and charm. In most comedies, romantic or otherwise, I often find myself struggling to buy the main couple as a authentic romantic unit, but Hit & Run never has that problem. They are not only entertaining and endearing protagonists, but the highs and lows of their relationship truly matter. Through this couple Derek Barnett Womens Jersey , Shepard relates some extremely poignant, surprisingly articulate ideas about how we struggle to trust those we love, and how much romance can influence and shape our ever-developing personalities and worldviews. As silly as the film gets at times, everything involving Charlie and Anna is decidedly mature; the heart they lend the film grounds even the craziest of moments in palpable emotional honesty, a virtue some comedies far funnier than this one often fail to consider.


Shepard is excellent in his own part, warm, natural, and appealing at all times. He can be very funny, but mostly restricts himself to playing the straight man Jay Ajayi Womens Jersey , and is excellent doing so. He makes for a very compelling leading man, and handles the tonal shifts surrounding the character鈥檚 past extremely well.


Bell鈥檚 character is a bit problematic as written. Shepard makes an effort to make her strong, independent, and well rounded, but she never gets to use the intellectual skills we鈥檙e told she has as part of the narrative, and that鈥檚 a bit of a disappointment. There seems to be a lot of potential to Anna left untapped. But Bell is such a relentless charisma machine, so effortlessly funny and three-dimensional, that those failings hardly matter. She makes Anna a character worth rooting for even when the script forgets to give her the proper attention, and she鈥檚 one of the core reasons the film works as well as it does.


Tonally Fletcher Cox Womens Jersey , the film is all over the map, lunging from sincere to oddball to action-packed

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