BOONE: THE BOUNTY HUNTER is a very low budget indie spoof of the TV show hit DOG: THE BOUNTY HUNTER. It's about a low rent TV hero who is all muscle but no brain who lands him into trouble when he crosses a ruthless drug lord. The resources are better than most indies resulting in a slicker production but this is still derivative, unfunny, and poorly paced. The most surprising thing about it is just how many down-on-their-luck celebrities take part. Kevin Sorbo has an amusing cameo at the outset, then we're treated to a muscular Jonathan Lipnicki (the kid from STUART LITTLE, no less),plus KINDERGARTEN COP's Richard Tyler, B-movie stalwart Lorenzo Lamas, Corbin Bernsen, Erika Eleniak, Dominique Swain, and even Capoeira fighter Lateef Crowder.

Boone (John Hennigan) is a hot dog TV bounty hunter going after guys like Kevin Sorbo for a parking ticket. His ratings plummet as the audience actually grows tired of his staged antics. With one last show left in the season, Boone calls in a favor from the DEA, and decides to do some real bounty hunting, going to Vallecitos, Mexico to retrieve the son of a drug lord who skipped bail. The town and its police force are owned by the drug lord.

This is an action film for tweens and young teens. It has cleavage, a cat fight, and a tipped port-o-let with someone in it...all the things an 11 year old male would love. The plot is straight forward without twists. People get killed and beat up, but most of that kind of violence takes place off camera. Hennigan's style of fighting is similar to parkour antics, again something for the kids. Mindless action and fun.

No swearing, sex, or nudity. Full women in small bikinis.

Making an action movie takes some skill, and making a comedy takes some skill as well. However, when you are making a movie that is half action and half comedy, you really need a great deal of skill. The two genres are really different from each other, and you need a lot of care to successful mix them together. It has happened successfully in the past several times, but "Boone: The Bounty Hunter" is not one of those examples. It doesn't work in practically any way you can think of, but I think its worst offence is its kind of comedy. Apart from two or three mildly amusing moments, the movie is not only unfunny, it is way too jokey. The characters as a result come across as dimwits and lack any warmth that may win them the audience's favor. The action is a few notches better (there is occasionally some impressive stunt work, for one thing),but it is often directed and edited in a way that makes it particularly hard to follow and get excited about. The bad editing also extends to the main narrative; there are a few noticeable plot holes, as if linking footage or simple explanation was never shot in the first place. The icing on the cake are some often really rock bottom production values. Quite often the movie looks like it was shot in someone's backyard or in abandoned lots near the filmmakers' homes. Come to think about it, the look and feel of the entire enterprise at times strongly resembles someone's home movie. Why pay money to see this when your teenage son can shoot something like this for free?