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Summary: Snoring Distance
Review: 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.
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Summary: cool
Review: 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.
Rating:
Summary: An entirely unoriginal, dull, and overlong thriller
Review: 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!
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Summary: Watch it as a comedy
Review: What many people fail to realize is that this is an unintentional comedy. For example, on their way to the policeman's ball Hardy and father get into a car chase that ends in a wreck. Hardy is pulled from the overturned car with a leg injury hours after it happens (it was daylight before, now it is dark and the ambulance is waiting) and the first thing his rescuers have him do is stand up! Hilarious. Also, don't miss Hardy's constipated expression whenever he fires his gun. Terrific cast is wasted in this movie.
Rating:
Summary: Watch it as a comedy
Review: What many people fail to realize is that this is an unintentional comedy. For example, on their way to the policeman's ball Hardy and father get into a car chase that ends in a wreck. Hardy is pulled from the overturned car with a leg injury hours after it happens (it was daylight before, now it is dark and the ambulance is waiting) and the first thing his rescuers have him do is stand up! Hilarious. Also, don't miss Hardy's constipated expression whenever he fires his gun. Terrific cast is wasted in this movie.
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