DVD Giveaway - Solitary Man
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Rating: Country: USA Release Date: March 3, 2006 Distributor: Warner Bros. Director: · Richard Donner Cast: · Bruce Willis as Jack Mosley · Mos Def as Eddie Bunker · David Morse as Frank Nugent Related Sites: ·IMDb: 16 Blocks ·Cinema Spider: 16 Blocks
Grade: B+
So you're running from a hurricane and you've got one spot in your car and you see three people at a bus stop who all need to get out of town, an old woman you don't know, your best friend who at one time saved your life and the woman of your dreams... who do you take with you? (no, the old woman can't sit on your lap!) If you go see "16 Blocks" you'll have the answer to that question.
"16 Blocks" at first seems like a typical dirty cop movie. Bruce Willis appears to be a down-on-his-luck broken New York City cop. You start thinking his wife must have died or some other tragic thing must have happened in his life that drove him to alcohol. Hey, maybe he got holed up in a building all by himself with like 16 terrorists one night and had to kill them all by himself?
Little by little you start to realize this isn't your conventional action type flick. It's really a story about a blurred moral line that we cross occasionally. Mos Def is exceptional, playing a petty criminal who's suppose to be transported just 16 New York City blocks. If you haven't figured it out by now, it becomes a little bit more complicated than it's suppose to be. Eddie Bunker (Mos Def) and Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis) end up spending a lot of time together. Eddie keeps on trying to convince Jack throughout the whole movie that it was meant to be, there was a reason why the two were brought together. In fact, it's Eddie that keeps on telling Jack that you can change... everybody can change. At first glance the only thing you might thing Jack needs to change is his alcoholism, but he has much darker secrets.
This is definitely a movie that you're going to want to see in theaters. It's a story about honesty, integrity and the fact that it really is never to late to change or do the right thing.
