"Horrible Bosses" mediocrity at his best.

Directed by Seth Gordon, “Horrible Bosses” is one of those movies that it’s just hard to find something to say about, not because they’re bad (or good), but because they exist in a limbo of absolute mediocrity, they pass without pain or glory and perfectly fulfill their objective: to entertain.

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Still, I feel that these types of movies are absolutely necessary, and they connect us with a philosophy of filmmaking that is very rarely seen today, seeing its cast full of big stars like Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Jason Bateman and the infamous Kevin Spacey, all mixed together in a comedy show that has little logic, but that works very well when it comes to giving us a good time.

The premise is extremely simple, we follow a group of three friends (played by Jason Sudeikis, Jason Bateman and Charlie Day), who discover that they have shitty bosses, for this reason, they decide to kill them making it look like an accident, The problem? They don’t know how to do it really.

While Horrible Bosses has a starting point that falls apart more and more as we slowly review it, it is important to recognize that at the same time it serves as the engine for several brilliant gags that are woven together, supported in large part by the undeniable chemistry of its protagonists and the counterbalance provided by all the “bosses” (played by Aniston, Spacey and Farrell), and, although there are several moments that have aged poorly (Let us remember that one of its subplots has to do with one of the boys being sexually harassed by his boss, something that shouldn’t bother him because she is “hot,” according to his friends), it ends up being a fun film that concludes abruptly thanks to a plot that has become more complicated than its own script can handle.

Was there potential? Of course it does, and I would have liked the film to be able to go into darker territory considering the “murky” nature of its premise, instead we get several vulgar jokes and an inability to play with the black comedy elements that could have worked much better. At the end of the day, its greatest virtue is also its greatest flaw. It was just ok.

Score taken from my letterboxd account