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16 Blocks
16 Blocks is your standard Bruce Willis underachieving-aged-cop-with-a-big-heart and-a-weakness-for-the-sauce nonsense, but it's realised particularly well.
16 Blocks is a nicely made run-of-the-mill thriller. Nothing novel or particularly creative, but all sown up with a satisfying feel that serves to justify the price of a ticket. No-one will remember it next year, but it fulfils its purpose. I enjoyed this film: I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: - some guns and action. One use of the F word. To enjoy this film you should be: at a loose end one evening.
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There are two types of people who watch magic shows - those that analyse just how the tricks are done, and those that sit back and enjoy the magic. The same goes for this film. I enjoyed this movie because I didn't read any reviews about it beforehand, I only knew it was the latest Bruce Willis film, and through the film I didn't try to predict what was coming next, I just sat back and enjoyed the storyline. But do listen hard in the first twenty minutes, as you are catapaulted into the plot. It is vintage Bruce Willis acting, with a strong flavour of Die Hard cop, hints of the
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"Take this witness to the courthouse, it's only 16 blocks away and you've got two hours to do it." What can possibly go
wrong? Well, this is Bruce Willis, so it's not long before the bullets start flying and the blood starts spilling.
The body count is low in this one - it's more of an A-Team shootfest where no-one can hit a barn door at ten paces - but
the tension is still high as Brucie gets deeper and deeper into the doo-doo as the morning progresses. Bruce has made a
great transition from action hero (Die Hard) into wheezy wrinkly (
Plotwise there's nothing here that we haven't seen many times before. The final twist is more original, but is a little
shaky in the plausibility stakes and gives the final reel a sugary coating that it really doesn't need. We have had enough
of Hollywood's rose-tinting and, particularly with a movie that was always going to be an also-ran, it would have been
nice to see a
braver ending, which could have elevated it from a seen-it-all-before action flick to a quality and genuinely impressive
adventure. The very first scene, though not particularly original, is very well done, with Brucie recording into his
dictaphone that he's been set up, before starting us on the trail to find out how that happened. If this quality had been
allowed to filter through to the end without the Hollywood saccharine monsters taking over, I would have been toying with
a 5/5 rating - as it is, it only just scrapes a 4.
