Film Review - Bride Hard
June 20, 2025
The title “Bride Hard” is obviously a play on the 1988 action classic, “Die Hard,” and it represents the height of the production’s creativity. Instead of doing something inventive or propulsive with the one-woman-army concept, the picture remains content to be a Rebel Wilson comedy, which is a signal to the audience that laughs won’t be happening in this effort. Screenwriter Shaina Steinberg is tasked to create a “Bridesmaids”-like endeavor that highlights character banter and quirks, while director Simon West (an uneven helmer who recently did okay with last winter’s “Cleaner”) is in charge of exaggerated physicality, setting up Wilson to play a master spy aiming to wipe out a criminal enterprise. “Bride Hard” (which was shot two years ago) doesn’t have a brain and it’s not exciting, stuck with dismal slapstick and mostly flat performances while West periodically breaks out some violence to act as smelling salts for the offering. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com