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Big Bounce, The

How many times must Owen Wilson perform CPR on a comatose movie? Like I Spy, Shanghai Knights and other Wilson misfires, this Elmore Leonard adaptation about a con man in Hawaii occasionally flails about with signs of life, but mostly it’s dead on arrival. Wilson is as endearingly goofy as always, but for all his efforts he lost this one. With a wasted Morgan Freeman, Gary Sinise, Charlie Sheen and Willie Nelson. Yes, that Willie Nelson.

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