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Bride Hard review – Rebel Wilson action comedy is hard to endure


The star makes for a charmless lead in a rubbishy attempt to mash a female-led wedding comedy and an action caper

In this week’s Bride Hard, the latest tinny genre mix to get chucked at us, when Rebel Wilson’s shoddy kitchen-based fight scene is scored to Geri Halliwell’s It’s Raining Men, you’ll be too bored to even roll your eyes, if you’re even awake at that point. But unlike Kristen Wiig’s hit, still one of the greatest comedies of the last 20 years, it doesn’t find any humour or texture within that set-up and when an action plot is thrown on top, there are also none of the base pleasures one would expect from a Die Hard rip-off. The only amusing moment is unintentional, as a character lies next to some Fiji water bottles while another digs into a bag of Lay’s chips before the camera glides past a selection of elf beauty products, swiftly explaining where some of the budget came from …

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