16 BLOCKS：Hot Film 2006

June 4, 2006 (Press Release) -- 16 BLOCKS FACTS

New York detective Jack Mosley (Willis) is assigned to escort a petty criminal, Eddie Bunker (Def), from the precinct to the courthouse. But the 16-block journey becomes challenging when a man makes an attempt on Eddie's life. Jack calls for backup, but the one of the cops who arrives on the scene is the man Eddie is supposed to testify against. It looks to Jack as though it's not a crook who wants to silence the witness, but rather a crooked cop.

Cast Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Morse, Cylk Cozart

Director(s) Richard Donner

Writer(s) Richard Wenk

Status Coming soon to DVD

Genre(s) Action/Adventure, Drama, Cops, Theatrical Release, New York City

Release Date March 3, 2006

DVD Release Date June 13, 2006

Running Time 105 minutes

OUR REVIEW
by Dave White

Who's in It: Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Morse
The Basics: Boozehound cop Bruce hikes 16 blocks to a court date with annoying Mos (his character's doofus voice is like nails on a chalkboard) so Mos can testify against a crew of corrupt police officers. But the bad law enforcers just want Mos dead. Bruce, too, if necessary.

What's the Deal? When an actor enjoys being a certain heroic thing on-screen, like, oh, say, a decent but flawed cop who must stand alone against overwhelming odds, it's hard for that actor to give up being heroic. It's as though they start believing they are that thing in real life. Kind of like how John Travolta thinks he's a fireman now. So here's another movie in which Willis does a bunch of super-unlikely stuff and saves the day. Whatever.

How Many Lies Does It Take to Get to the Center of Your Irritated Core? In this movie, Willis' character:
1. Drives a bus blindly and happens to crash into just the exact spot he needs to elude the bad guys.
2. Is totally liquored up but has the springy moves of a jungle cat, dodging hailstorms of gunfire.
3. Manages an utterly confusing bait-and-switch move involving a seemingly magic ambulance, also eluding the bad guys.

And some other stuff, too. But those are all the mini-spoilers you need for now.

Typecast-o-Meter: David Morse scores, like, a 99. Again, he's the bad guy. And I mean again and again and again, he's the weirdly baby-faced but aging bad guy with the freaky gray goatee that just looks like a tiny knit cap on his chin. This dude just loves to work and get paid, I guess.

Directors Whom Bruce Willis Should Court to Pull Him Out of This Rut: Some weird French ones like Claire Denis, Catherine Breillat, Michael Haneke (OK, he's Austrian, but still mostly French) and Leos Carax. They'd strip him down to the bone.


Source: http://movies.go.com

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