Probably one of the funniest movies of the year, Bosses revolves around a situation that we’ve probably all thought about one time or another. The jobs of best friends Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis and Jason Bateman couldn’t be more different, yet they share a common problem: hating their boss.
One day over drinks, they decide life would be better if their respective bosses were gone, and yes, this time they aren’t just talking about it. The idea of hiring a hit man sounds easy enough, but dental assistant Charlie, whose boss (Jennifer Aniston) is an evil seductress, can’t even manage that. Instead he finds a male prostitute because the Craigslist ad said “wet work.” Unable to find a reliable hitman, they arrange quid-pro-quo murders and decide to off each others’ bosses.
The other bosses are sadistic exec Harken (Kevin Spacey) and cokehead Bobby (Colin Farrell.) After disastrously staking out their bosses’ homes, which results in spilling $10,000 worth of coke in Bobby’s living room, it seems as though the mission will be called off. They have bigger problems to worry about, however, when Harken murders Bobby, leaving Charlie and his friends as the only suspects and they’re further in over their heads than we could possibly hope. If the cops won’t get them, Kevin Spacey, playing his first psychopath in a long time, will.
The movie gives a new twist to crime gone wrong, and the performances, much of the dialogue improv, are astounding.
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