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Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/16/2009 Run time: 102 minutes Rating: R
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Striking Distance
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What a bad movie! From acting to script, it was absolutely horrendous. I could go to any video rental club, walk directly to the ACTION or SUSPENSE section, close my eyes, and pull out a random thriller identical to it! I personally, just like most of the noted critics as well as the ones here on AMAZON who didn’t like it, just can’t understand why they went through all the waste of talent, time and location. It’s even too dumb to be a time killer on a rainy day!
Rating: 1 / 5
It is no wonder that this movie takes place in Pittsburgh,Pa.where corrupt cops abound.Bruce Willis is excellent in this one.
Rating: 5 / 5
“Striking Distance” was one of the weirdest movies I’ve seen, because by the time the movie’s over, you don’t see a point to it. I’m not saying you shouldn’t see it, but the fact is the plot is predictable and pointless. The killer is no big suprise, and the characters are just not as intriguing as John McClane or Martin Riggs. Playing Sarah Jessica Parker as a cop was somewhat confusing, and pairing off with Bruce Willis did not work; they’re just too different. Although the setting was terrific and the cast allstarred, the movie is over-the-top and as unconvincing as they come. The scene where Tom and the killer are going head-to-head is actually laughable: the guy just doesn’t know when to quit, and neither does the screen play. Personally, I think I could have lived without seeing this movie, but Pittsburgh is definately on my vacation’s list.
Rating: 2 / 5
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.
Rating: 1 / 5
In my book, the very worst films are the ones that take a lot of talented people, all of whom have done great work elsewhere, and deliver them into a cinematic meatgrinder. “Battlefield Earth” is one such film, and “Striking Distance” is another.
This film manages to completely waste Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, Tom Sizemore, Robert Pastorelli, Brion James, and Andre Braugher, all of whom are tremendous actors who’ve done fine work elsewhere. But in “Striking Distance,” it seems that they were all in it for a paycheck, and little else.
When bad movies are filled with hack actors, and were obviously done on a nonexistent budget, at least you know the movie couldn’t have been better.
But when you have a bomb like this populated with this kind of talent, and obviously the product of a serious budget, the problem is that the people making it just didn’t give a darn.
Rating: 1 / 5