The Great Buck Howard

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Steve D The cast is all it has. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/07/23 Full Review Gareth v Feel good dramedy that is carried by the performance of Malkovich and the underrated Blunt. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Truly one of the most pointless and boring films I've ever seen. I've seen more pointless, and I've seen more boring but this one propels further away from entertaining or compelling than most films I've seen. It relies almost entirely on sappy sentimentalism, which in itself isn't very profound, unique, or lasting. It also seems a bit disingenuous. It's the kind of sentimentality you see from high ranking officials mourning a dead comrade in old Soviet times when you know damn well they had the person killed to begin with and never liked the person. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review dave s In The Great Buck Howard, Troy Gable (Colin Hanks) is a law school student who, in a bout of existential angst, quits school and lands a job as the road manager for the washed-up mentalist Buck Howard (John Malkovich) and winds up falling in love with a publicist (Emily Blunt) brought in to bolster Buck's flailing career. The premise is great, but the movie flounders by putting the focus on Hanks' drab character and his seemingly pointless romance instead of centering everything around Buck Howard, the only truly interesting character in the film. There are some laughs, but the flaccid script misses the mark more often than not. Malkovich's enthusiastic performance as the delusional and self-centered egomaniac is probably reason enough to watch, but the lasting memory that the film will have is probably the wooden acting performance of Hanks, who proves that acting talent is not hereditary. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review farah r This is not the movie I expected it would be with such a cast. The Great Buck Howard is far from great, in fact t's awful. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Wonderfully acted by an excellent cast, this oddball comedy is only compromised by its rather meandering screenplay (by director Sean McGinley). Colin Hanks - whose dad plays his screen dad - narrates how he gave up law school to work for has been mentalist Buck Howard (John Malkovich, brilliant). Emily Blunt, Griffin Dunne and others bolster the simple story, but it's Malkovich's show. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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