For the current trend of bad movies that Bruce Willis gets paid to be on the poster, this is one of the better ones, I suppose. I know that’s kind of praising with faint damnation, but I gotta admit at least this movie has a decently slick production style and Willis doesn’t wander off into the woods like a bald sasquatch. He’s in it a bit more than other movies… though he gets to be shot and relax in a chair for most of it (and then his stunt double does some lazy kung fu on his behalf).

Plot… as such. A drug deal (or something) goes wrong and our hero cops are caught in one of them there deadly games of cat and mouse. The crooks are out to get them and some random “farmer” (played by Chad Michael Murray for reasons) whose house they’ve taken over. Is there more to the plot? No.

The dialog is ludicrous, there’s hardly any plot, the meager attempts at character exposition are inserted awkwardly, the crooks are various shades of caricatures (including Harley Quinn… or someone dressed up as her for Halloween). The action is… not the worst? The suspense is better than predicted? Some of the cinematography is better than a kick in the groin. This isn’t a completely incompetent movie which marginally saves it from the depths of bad reviews.

But really… no point in watching this when there are, you know, actually good action movies out there and even better ones that star (a much younger) Bruce Willis. If you got to get your Willie on, go watch Die Hard or The Fifth Element or any number of other movies filmed in the before times when he cared.

But if you do watch one of his later day “efforts”, this is better than Out of Death, Breach, Cosmic Sin, and Midnight in the Switchgrass.

Dear god. I had to look those titles up on his IMDB page to remind me. And I now have revealed wisdom that we live under a Sword of Damocles… my man Willis has 3 films marks as Completed, NINE in post production, and, thankfully, only 1 in pre-production.

Surely a sign of the end times.

Score: 66