Acting's good, but 'Bucket' is half-empty

From: Rocky Mountain News (2007-Current) | Date: January 11, 2008| Author: David Germain | Copyright information

Facing terminal illness, we should all get to experience a no- costs- barred world tour to do everything we ever wanted.

Most of us don't have the convenient bottomless wallet that allows Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman to do just that in The Bucket List, a comic drama that puts director Rob Reiner back in commercial - if not artistic - form.

Unlike Reiner's string of duds of the last 10 years or so, the movie is easily accessible, with Nicholson and Freeman elevating a story o...

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