16 Blocks (Widescreen Edition)
by Richard Donner
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Actor: Bruce Willis, Cylk Cozart, David Morse, Mos Def, Tig FongDirector: Richard Donner
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Widescreen, 2.40:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
Published: 2006-06-01
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-13
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: 81040
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking witness from police custody to a courthouse. There are however forces at work trying to prevent them from making it.Running Time: 102 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG-13 Age: 012569810402 UPC: 012569810402 Manufacturer No: 81040
Movie Reviews of 16 Blocks (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: The action sequences were eye-citing as well as heart-warming in some ways!
Summary: 5 Stars
Recently, I watched two great cop action movies on cable television;
1) 'Assault on Precinct 13', starring Ethan Hawk, Laurence Fishburne & Gabriel Bryne;
2) '16 Blocks' starring Bruce Willis, Mos Def, & David Morse;
Both movies shared a common theme: a bunch of rogue cops vs one good cop, with explosive, pulsating action sequences.
The first movie was supposed to be a remake of an earlier movie made during the seventies & bearing the same title. I did not watch it. Nevertheless, the story in both movies came from John Carpenter, the master of horror & suspense.
I had watched many of John Carpenter's movies, which includes 'The Fog', 'The Thing', 'Ghosts on Mars', 'Village of the Damned', just to name a few.
(I also read that the earlier movie was based on Howard Hawks' cowboy movie entitled 'Rio Bravo', made in the late fifties & starring John Wayne, Dean Martin & Ricky Nelson. No wonder, as I come to think about it, there was some notable resemblance in the plot.)
In the first movie, a pill-popping police sergeant, Jake Roenik (played by Ethan Hawke) inside a police station that was about to be closed down for good, had to rally the ragtag group of police personnel as well as prisoners in the station to protect themselves against a massive assault on New Year's Eve.
A bunch of rogue cops, led by Capt Marcus Duvall (played by Gabriel Bryne) & equipped with high-tech weaponry, had surrounded the station. They had planned to kill all of the station's occupants in order to keep their deception within the ranks.
As a matter of fact, one of the station prisoners was a drug dealer as well as a cop killer, Marion Bishop (played by Laurence Fishburne), who was actually their prime target, as they feared that he might finger them when he went to court the next day.
In the second movie, a burnt-out aging police detective, Jack Mosley (played by Bruce Willis), was assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking, small-time crook, Eddie Bunker (played by Mos Def) from jail to a courthouse 16 blocks away. The setting was New York city.
However, along the way, he learned that the crook had made a prior deal with the District Attorney's office & was supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, spearheaded by another police detective, Frank Nugent (played by David Morse). One of the colleagues was accidentally shot in the leg by Mosley during a skirmish.
As a result, practically the entire NYPD wanted him & the crook dead. Mosley had to choose between loyalty to his colleagues & protecting the witness.
Both movies also shared an intriguing twist to the ending part of the story, which really made the movies worth watching. You just have to go & watch both movies to know what I meant.
In the movies, both good cops had to use their anticipatory wits to outsmart & outmanoeuvre their rogue colleagues in order to stay alive.
For me, as a fan, these were two cop action movies without the intervention of CGI, & the action sequences were eye-citing as well as heart-warming in some ways.
In fact, in the first movie, I was very impressed by Bishop's philosophy of 'self-preservation' & also, Roenik's unwitting extension of professional courtesy to Bishop, as dictated by the course of events, while the latter reciprocated Roenik's kind gesture at the end of the movie. Sometimes, your enemy is your best friend.
In the second movie, Mosley did not believe that crooks could change or turn a new leaf. Bunker proved him wrong by sending him a birthday cake, plus a picture of his new cake shop in Seattle, with Mosley's name on it.
Summary of 16 Blocks (Widescreen Edition)
An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking witness from police custody to a courthouse. There are however forces at work trying to prevent them from making it.Running Time: 102 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569810402 Manufacturer No: 81040Similar DVD Movies
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