Horrible Bosses

Horrible Bosses is more or less what you expect, and that's pretty good considering the previews and premise made it look funny. This is a set ‘em up and knock ‘em down kind of comedy that's brisk, consistent and reliable, though it doesn't exactly go above and beyond its call of duty. It does, however, give the actors, especially the villainous bosses, a chance to play rich, colorful characters, which they do quite well. I only wish we got to see more of them, because even though they're meant to die, the bosses are the most interesting and amusing people on-screen.

The premise is simple: three buddies, all miserable at their current their jobs because of the people they work for, hire a hit man to kill their bosses. Nick (Jason Bateman) is an accountant at a financial firm and thought he was in line for a promotion, but his back-stabbing, egotistical boss, Dave (Kevin Spacey), steals the opportunity out from under him. Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) manages a chemical company under the leadership of Jack (Donald Sutherland), but when Jack suddenly dies, his coke-head, comb-over-wearing son, Bobby (Colin Farrell, very funny), takes over and starts demanding unreasonable requests, like “fire the fat people and the cripples.” Dale (Charlie Day) works as a dental assistant for Julie (Jennifer Aniston), a sex addict who violates just about every harassment policy in the book and demands that Dale sleep with her…or else.

Things have gotten so grim that Nick, Kurt and Dale believe they'd be doing the world a disservice by not having their bosses whacked, so they seek out a would-be assassin named Dean Jones (Jamie Foxx), who actually goes by a different name that's too obscene to be printed here. Jones is not actually a murderer, but a murder consultant, and an inept one at that, though that's part of his appeal, at least for us. Nick, Kurt and Dale aren't exactly sure what they're paying for since Jones' advice is pretty obvious (he tells them not to get caught), but he does suggest something rather ingenious: have the friends kill each other's bosses. That way, nothing gets traced back to any one of them.

As expected, during the course of one long, crazy night, the three experience a series of misadventures as they attempt murder in the first degree. Usually the act of killing people in the movies is portrayed as something easy, but not for these guys, and even though we can anticipate their mishaps, we cheerfully go along for the ride because the characters are so likable and, at the risk of sounding barbaric, a little part of us approves of what they're doing. Well, maybe “approves” isn't the right word, but we can at least identify with their pain. Who among us hasn't had a boss we wanted out of the picture?

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