Striking Distance
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Movie Reviews of Striking Distance
Movie Review: A GOOD ACTION THRILLER !
Summary: 3 Stars
I saw this movie years ago and found it in a bargain bin recently, I thought it was time to give it another viewing. This is no "Die Hard",but it is a pretty neat action thriller that will hold your interest. The DVD transfer is very good.Movie Review: WILLIS LIGHT
Summary: 3 Stars
Okay, so it's kind of a light weight movie over all, but it's got a great cast, and it's entertaining. That said, I'd give Hudson Hawk 4 stars.Movie Review: cool
Summary: 3 Stars
this movie was good, but how can you say that it was a mystery.it was totally predictable.but it was still good enough to add to my collection.Movie Review: Snoring Distance
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie is absolutely awful; one of several Willis flops from the mid to late 90's ("Color of Night", "Die Hard With A Vengeance", "Last Man Standing", "The Jackal"). However, his other films at least had semi-coherent, albeit predictable, plot lines and decent acting. "Striking Distance" is full every cop/thriller cliché you can think of, the only difference being the fact that Willis plays a water policeman, which by the end of the movie is neither here nor there. The story sees Willis' character's father (also a police officer) en route to a policeman's ball is throw into a chase scene in which the car (naturally) crashes, and is killed. Though it seems his death is not as a result of the accident, but rather from bullet wounds. Fast-forward to a few years later and bodies are being found dumped in the river that Willis' character patrols. Of course, this all becomes serious when it is apparent the same killer, possibly a serial killer, is committing the murders. Now the hunt is on (surprise, surprise) and Willis suspects this may all be somehow related to his father's death.
What could have been an intelligent and interesting story soon slides below the limbo bar of film mediocrity. Sarah Jessica Parker "co-stars" as the typical love interest, but she has no chemistry with Willis she barley has more than a paragraph of dialogue with him. This is just one of many pointless characters peppered throughout the film. The most annoying one being some cop who has it in for Willis, but you're never sure why, and his confrontations are used as filler (i.e. they have no connection to the murder or to any other plot point). There is an absolutely pathetic scene at the end of the film where after mouthing off at Willis, he has to be held back after Willis makes some half-baked one liner. Watch with awe how terribly unconvincing the acting is!
Getting back to the plot, the ending is somewhat interesting and for a moment the scriptwriters decided to actually write some scenes that aren't pointless, but the final confrontation is so overblown and overacted it's simply painful to watch.
I do not own the DVD of "Striking Distance". I first watched it on TV a few years ago. It was on again not too long ago, and on second viewing (here was I thinking, "It couldn't have been that bad!") I was reminded of how utterly awful this movie is.
Movie Review: So bad it's almost a parody of thriller cliches
Summary: 1 Stars
The Bottom Line:
A movie that Bruce Willis (who has been involved in more than his share of terrible films) has publicly apologized for, Striking Distance seemingly leaves no stone unturned in its quest to include every conceivable cliche of the genre, from its generic thriller title to its obvious red herring character to its one-note depiction of every character; completely unredeemable, this film should not be watched by anyone.
1.5/4