ONE TENDS TO FORGET THAT WILLIS CAN ACT
Added 11/14/2009
With not much effort one can add footnotes to the script showing the most recent sources for a good deal of the action. That would be of interest to film historians, but for most of us, it is enough to know that Bruce Willis is not only given the opportunity to please us and build box office with some good action sequences, but , also, is given a chance to show us that he is, indeed, an actor of some quality when given the opportunity (or, insisting on the opportunity, I should think, given his box office clout). Mos Def and David Morse very ably play his garrulous prisoner and ex-partner. Not much else need be said in the light of the attention reviewer have paid to the film in the years since it was issued on DVD. I should think that fans of Willis and the other actor-actioneers will be much pleased by this offering.
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A little long, but good
Added 10/20/2009
This is a good story, but it's about a half hour longer than it needed to be. Bruce, David and Mos Def played their roles well.
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very great buy
Added 10/5/2009
This was a very good buy and it got here in good time would buy from this buyer again for sure
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A Better Bruce Willis
Added 9/7/2009
16 Blocks could possibly be Bruce Willis' best movie. It's certainly his best effort at character acting, at least until the last few scenes. He plays an aging, alcoholic, off the books cop whose job is to take a witness to the court house to testify against cops. Mos Def plays the witness, and he's actually very, very good. Bruce Willis does very well at playing a drunken cop. Maybe he's had some practice?
The movie picks up steam when Willis has to shoot an assassin who is about to off his witness. From there, it's a roller coaster ride that is fairly believable, and definitely fun, until about the last ten minutes, then things take a slide. But what the hey, it's a fun movie. In fact, it's the best Bruce Willis I've seen since the original Die Hard. Another surprise is David Morse, who plays Willis' ex-partner. Morse's character is a corrupt cop who is in on a murder and is trying to stop Mos Def from testifying against him and Bruce Willis, as well as some other cops.
On one hand, 16 Blocks is just another movie about corrupt NYC cops, on the other hand it is a reasonably good character study about a drunken cop who can realize the merits of justice when he sees it, even if he is plastered.
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C+ movie at best
Added 7/27/2009
Not the best Bruce Willis film but a solid movie to say the least although I wish Mos Def's character didn't have to talk so much. All in All I would say its a rental at best.
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