Gun Shy

An over the shoulder shot of Bullock is surprisingly out of focus In enlighteningly striking contrast to the other clients' petty grievances of the day, Neeson offers his, "You're doing your best to bring in the bad guys, the next thing you know, you're laying naked on a table full of rotting fruit with an oozy up your @#$. ... Full Review

Gun Shy is much, much better more complex, intelligent, funnier than the Disney shuck-and-jivers want you to think. The trailer tells you Gun Shy is just another broadly contoured Sandra Bullock romantic comedy with Liam Neeson as the guy she falls for (a boilerplate role in virtually every Bullock film Ive seen), and Oliver Platt hamming it up as a high-strung mafioso type. ... Full Review

Luckily, Gun Shy's potty-minded schizophrenia is somewhat ameliorated by its gloriously off-kilter sense of humor, with nearly every comedic moment offering some element of surprise. Gun Shy opens with a jumbled introduction, with Neeson hunkered down in an airport bathroom, alternately spewing verbal re-enactments of the past and having surreal recollections of real-life life-threatening incidents. ... Full Review

Whenever one of the handful of improbable plot points rears its nasty head, there she is, gorgeous and imperturbable, ready with a deus ex machina solution. Its a lazy way to get around problems in the story and Bullock (here as producer too ... Full Review

Marred by toilet humor and an erratic story, "Gun Shy" is one mob movie that's better left sleeping with the fishes. While the notion of the "stressed-out tough guy" routine isn't anything that we haven't seen done to death ("Analyze This", "The Sopranos"), Neeson makes the most of his screen time with a few funny moments that make the film somewhat bearable. ... Full Review

THE MOBSTER-IN-therapy sub-genre is in danger of eating itself, and Eric Blakeney's befuddled "Gun Shy" isn't sure what to make of it, either. With Liam Neeson as a DEA agent on the couch, the comedy bears a passing resemblance to... ... Full Article

A cast-iron flop in the United States, it follows the recent trend of tough guys needing psychoanalysis. Undercover DEA agent Charlie (Neeson) is having a crisis of confidence, but as chance would have it, bumps into a psychiatrist on the... ... Full Article

If you have the inclination to sit through a mediocre comedy only to see ten minutes of a clever and gratifying resolution, Gun Shy is the movie for you. ... Full Article