Pretty funny but not for everybody

Rating: 7/10 (25 September 2018)

Nick, Kurt and Dale are three friends working for bosses who make their lives a misery. Nick's boss, Dave Harken works him hard with the promise of a promotion that never materialises; Dale, a dental assistant is sexually harassed by dentist Julia Harris and Dave's new boss is running down the business to fuel his drug habit. Eventually they can take it no more and decide their bosses have to die. Attempts to find a hitman don't go well but eventually they decide to kill each other's bosses. Inevitably it isn't quite as easy as they thought.
As the characters acknowledge the basic plot is 'Strangers on a Train'/'Throw Momma from the Train'... being a comedy more of the latter. The premise is simple enough and it does provide a good number of laughs; it also manages to get near the knuckle at times as certain situations could offend some viewers... if Dale and Julia's positions had been reversed I'm sure it wouldn't have been allowed. The characters are a fun bunch; each of the bosses is unsympathetic in nicely varied ways and the three protagonists are amusingly incompetent when it comes to planning a murder. The cast is solid with Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sukeikis being amusing leads; Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey and Colin Farrell are equally fun as the titular Horrible Bosses... particularly Aniston who plays against type as the sexually predatory dentist. There is also a very funny turn from Jamie Foxx as the trio's 'murder adviser'. Overall I found this to be pretty funny but some of the material is likely to offend some viewers.