The Bucket List (2008)Movies

Review: “The Bucket List” 3.5 stars out of 4 TWO GOOD MEN December 25, 2007 — ‘THE Bucket List” is about vomiting blood, skull surgery, night chills, chemotherapy and catheters, and it begins and ends with people dying. In other words, it’s a feel-good movie. Jack Nicholson plays a health-care firm CEO who finds himself a patient in one of his own hospitals. Thanks to his cost-cutting “two beds to a room, no exceptions” policy (and a forgivable script contrivance), he gets parked in the same room as a mechanic (Morgan Freeman) who wanted to be a history professor before life made other plans for him. The pair don’t hit it off. “I’ve taken baths deeper than you,” humble Carter (Freeman) tells money-mad Edward (Nicholson). Both...