A hapless bounty hunter gets in trouble when he falls for an attractive fugitive. I'll cut straight to the chase: Big Mistake is pure cheese.

Nick's new at the bounty hunter business. So far he's failed to catch a single skip. Madison is his latest assignment. When he tracks her down at a nightclub, he fails again by catching feelings for her. It doesn't take long for Madison to seduce Nick and convince him to kill someone. He blames his poor decision-making on playing too much Super Mario as a kid. Seriously.

A lot of traditional noir elements are crammed in here. The voiceover. The jazzy soundtrack. The femme fatale. One thing they didn't try to emulate was the moody lighting. The nightclub where Nick meets Madison has the atmosphere of a bank lobby.

Halfway through the movie, there's an event that comes within arm's reach of being a plot twist, and the point of view switches from Nick to Madison. It's as close as writer Devin O'Leary comes to an interesting choice in the entire screenplay. Director Michael Perez doesn't find any ways to make the story visually interesting, either. Strangely, the overall production quality seems to improve slightly in the second half. It doesn't rise to good, but at least it looks like they tried.

The two leads have no chemistry at all. Sylvia Adelina Padilla is uncompelling as the femme fatale. Samson Snell isn't any better as the bounty hunter. The story tries to decorate his formlessness with a few hardboiled cliches. It doesn't work.

What else? Lame action scenes. Cardboard characters. Annoying breakage of the fourth wall. A "Lady or the Tiger?" ending that no one will ever care enough to debate.

Is there anything nice I can say about this turd? I guess the sound was serviceable. I never had trouble understanding any of the dialogue. Too bad none of it was worth hearing.

3 out of 10.

Seen on Tubi.