16 Blocks

2006

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

42
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 55% · 161 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 134528 134.5K

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Plot summary

An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking witness from police custody to a courthouse, but they find themselves running the gauntlet as other forces try to prevent them from getting there.


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May 07, 2012 at 10:50 AM

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Top cast

Bruce Willis as Det. Jack Mosley
Tom Wlaschiha as Bus Passenger
David Morse as Det. Frank Nugent
Sasha Roiz as Kaller
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23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
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1 hr 42 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ma-cortes 7 / 10

Intrigue , action and suspense with a sensational Bruce Willis

The film concerns an experienced but tiring cop named Jack (Bruce Willis) about his retirement . The aging detective is assigned the last mission , transporting sixteen blocks away a foul-mouthed delinquent , from the precinct until the court . He is aware that the African-American young named Eddie Buken (Mos Def) is allegedly to testify against NYPD agents . He made a covenant with the D.A. office for identifying corrupt detectives at courthouse . Meantime , along the way , they're attacked by vicious gunfighters and pursued by all N.Y.C policemen and they find themselves under siege into a bus and surrounded by the SWAT . Then , they team up to flee , trying to get out towards the trial building .

The movie displays suspense , action ,thriller and is very entertaining . The film's writer, Richard Wenk, has reported that he originally conceived of the project with himself as writer and director and, before shopping it around to anyone else, first approached Richard Donner because they had a struck up a good relationship when Donner really liked his rewrite of a script for Lethal weapon 4 (1998) , even though that script was not used . It's a special buddy movie between a dreary , boozy cop magnificently played by Bruce Willis and a fast-talking prisoner well acted by Mos Def , detaching an agreeable chemistry . Although the film is principally interpreted by two main actors also contains exceptional performances by its entire secondary cast , especially by David Morse and Jenna Stern . Living musical score adjusted appropriately to the action by Klaus Badelt and adequate cinematography by Glen McPherson . The movie produced by Milennium (Trevor Short ,Boaz Davidson , Danny Lerner) usually producers of low-medium budget but here was lavishly filmed . The motion picture was professionally directed by the veteran Richard Donner . He's an action cinema specialist with numerous titles (Assassin , Conspiracy theory , Timeline , Lethal Weapon I..). Rating : Better than average . It's a must see for Bruce Willis fans in spite of his characterization as an old man .

Reviewed by Prismark10 5 / 10

Attack on the block

16 Blocks features a worn out cop (Bruce Willis) given a last minute assignment to escort a witness to the courthouse in two hours so he can testify against some dirty cops.

The witness who is played by Mos Def is verbose with a whiny voice. If I was Willis I would had shot him dead as soon as I sat in the car with him!

It soon becomes clear that there are cops who are out to kill the witness and it's Willis's job to save him and deliver him to court. Hot on the tail are dirty cops led by Willis's ex partner (David Morse).

The film is directed by Richard Donner and together with Willis you might have expected some bone crunching action mixed with humour instead it is a run of the mill thriller rather po faced.

Mos Def does not provide the laughs but actually is very irritating. I expected better.

Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 7 / 10

People Can Change

In New York, the alcoholic and decadent detective Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis) is assigned to deliver a prisoner to the court sixteen blocks far from his precinct in 118 minutes. Eddie Bunker (Mos Def) made a deal with the D.A. office and will identify and testify against a dirty detective. While driving to the tribunal, Jack is attacked by a group of corrupt cops and protects Eddie.

In spite of being a flawed movie, "16 Blocks" is a good entertainment with lots of action and an optimistic, hopeful and commercial message in the end that people can change, with the redemption of Eddie and Jack. Mos Def irritates with his accent, and Bruce Willis is totally different from his usual shape, inclusive with a "tire" on his belly. It is funny to see all the damage caused by the bus in Manhattan and no press and no interventions of Ada MacDonald (Brenda Pressley), who was interested in the case. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "16 Quadras" ("16 Blocks")

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