Block 16

Arely 2022-03-22 09:01:39

Richard Donner and Bruce Willis, one is a veteran director of entertainment films, the classics such as "Ominous", "Superman" and "Bombshell" are well-known, and the other has become an epoch-making decadent police detective with "Die Hard" The representative said that yesterday's yellow flower was a bit too much, but it is an indisputable fact that the two of them are no longer beautiful. Nonetheless, 16 Blocks, a new work in the old-fashioned police and gangster mode, can still make a small splash in Hollywood, which is full of stunts.

Domineering, hatred, black and white police and criminals changed from hostility to mutual sympathy, such a bridge is really "old-fashioned", Richard Donner simply "relying on the old and selling the old", no longer concocted the agile "super SWAT", but the old-fashioned let Bruce Willis decadent In the end, the expression is sluggish, the M prefix is ​​matched with the bad habits of alcoholism and the face full of vicissitudes, and it is dying, just like a dying hound, but it exudes a kind of tragic taste. Corruption and bribery in the New York Police Force has long been the subject of "excessive filming". Richard Donner completely turned the entire police force into a complicit thug this time. Not only did he unscrupulously attack Bruce Willis and Mos Def in broad daylight in the area under his jurisdiction. Chasing and killing Bruce Willis, who even attempted to kill himself in the courthouse, can be said to be extremely unscrupulous, far darker than Stallone's "Police Empire". Bruce Willis and Mos Def walked through the streets, bringing the old and dilapidated side behind the bustling empire, shouting "Go Kai" in blunt Cantonese in Chinatown, and being taken in by an elderly Chinese living alone, and finally forced to hijack the bus to stage a show Trapped beast fight, New York and Bruce Willis "glow" each other, so dilapidated and moldy, it is the style of the old school police and gangster action movies.

The rhythm of the film can be kept tight, and the plot of the battle of wits and strength is not surprising, but at least it is not too "Westward Journey", and it can be regarded as a good entertainment film. Bruce Willis is getting older and sluggish, but in my opinion exudes the spicy smell of "old ginger", which is pleasant; David Morse plays the villain, with sharp eyes, just like a "fire cloud evil spirit", in sharp contrast to Bruce Willis , one by one, far better than Mos Def.

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Extended Reading
  • Bailey 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    It's been tough for decades

  • Thaddeus 2022-04-22 07:01:15

    Willis, who is so old that he can only rely on his brain to act, is still so wonderful

16 Blocks quotes

  • Frank Nugent: [after catching Jack and telling him to drop his weapon] Can't get lucky all the time.

    Eddie Bunker: [sneaking up behind Frank with a gun] You can be smart every day, though.

  • Jack Mosley: Days change, seasons change, people don't change.