Movie "16 Blocks" (2006)

    Movie's ratings

    654 9346

    4

    " For a New York cop and his witness, the distance between life and death just got very short."
    Country
    Spoken Language
    Runtime 1 hr 42 min
    Budget $52 000 000
    Premiere: World $65 664 721 March 1, 2006
    USA $36 895 141
    Other countries $28 769 580
    Box Office – Budget $13 664 721
    Premiere: USA $36 895 141 February 27, 2006
    first day $3 732 117
    first weekend $11 855 260
    theaters 2706
    rollout 304 days
    Digital: World March 2, 2008
    Parental Advisory
    • Frightening & Intense Scenes

      average

    • Profanity

      average

    • Violence & Gore

      average

    • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

      few

    Production Companies Millennium FilmsAlcon EntertainmentEmmett/Furla Oasis Films...Cheyenne EnterprisesNu Image Entertainment GmbHContentFilmEquity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH & Co. KG IIIDonners' Company16 Block Productions
    Also Known As
    Muerte súbita United States
    16 rues Canada

    Description

    An aging alcoholic cop is assigned the task of escorting a witness from police custody to a courthouse 16 blocks away. There are, however, chaotic forces at work that prevent them from making it in one piece.

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    Release

    The film, released by Warner Bros., opened in the United States on March 3, 2006.

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    Critique: 18

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    detnews.com March 3, 2006

    While 16 Blocks may be two blocks and three left-hand turns too long, it’s still one sturdy cop thriller, filled with grit, corrupt...

    Salon.com March 2, 2006

    This is a sturdy little cop thriller, and even when it stretches the bounds of plausibility, you go with it, partly because you believe ...

    The one bright spot in all this is Mos Def’s performance.

    Austin Chronicle March 11, 2006

    Richard Donner still has it.

    Slant Magazine March 2, 2006

    The film kicks and lurches like a dying jalopy, undermining the otherwise lean efficiency with which Donner steers his metropolitan odyssey.

    BBC May 6, 2006

    Fast-paced, tense and intermittently exciting, Donner’s latest will keep genre fans engaged with its polished blend of tried and tested eleme...

    USA Today March 2, 2006

    16 Blocks seems as if it has been around the block a time or two.

    Boston.com March 3, 2006

    16 Blocks feels like a remake of Clint Eastwood’s The Gauntlet. The Gauntlet was exciting nonsense. 16 Blocks is just dutiful...

    Willis has been playing slight variations on this role for years now, and though the films don’t get better, his performances do.

    A happier surprise is the smart work of director Richard Donner: 16 Blocks is all jumble and jangle-crowds, snarled traffic, and discordant ca...

    RogerEbert.com March 2, 2006

    The bedrock of the plot is the dogged determination of the Bruce Willis character. Jack may be middle-aged, he may be tired, he may be balding, he...

    This action-thriller is so predictable that you probably could outline the plot after watching a 30-second TV spot. But it’s so entertai...

    Hiding among all the uniforms and bullets, it turns out, is an actors' movie, and two actors more than capable of hitting their marks.

    calendarlive.com March 2, 2006

    The film’s depiction of a defeated man summoning the moral courage to address his past is, satisfyingly, more '70s than '80s.

    ReelViews February 28, 2006

    Despite occasional bursts of suspense, the movie as a whole plays out as a long 95 minutes, with its lack of inventiveness leading us mor...

    Chron March 3, 2006

    Its dialogue is sassy, its plotting is taut (maybe too taut, as key segues are AWOL), but 16 Blocks has more on the brain than mere distr...

    SFGATE March 3, 2006

    Another urban action thriller that’s better than some, worse than most and so forgettable that it’s possible to forget it while watchin...

    freep.com March 3, 2006

    The Lethal Weapon movies were all about charismatic actors breathing life into stock characters. That doesn’t happen with Willis and Def.

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    Watched

    A strong action movie from the past with a tired Bruce. The case is that an action movie is good not only for its action component, but also for its emotional component. And this is the merit of not only the wonderful acting, but also the screenwriting. I didn’t expect anything good, but I was pleasantly surprised. 8.5/10

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    Not the worst police thriller, but not a masterpiece either. Disadvantages of the film: a cliché duo of a white policeman and a black criminal, again American werewolves in uniform doing their "dirty" deeds and little action for an action movie. Pros: Acting by Bruce Willis and David Morse.

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    Watched

    It feels like I watched the lost part of Die Hard, where old man MacLaine is already tired of service (I don’t know if the make-up worked so well here or Willis was on a bad streak, but in some shots he really looks the way he should – an old tired wrinkled drunkard) and it’s time for him to retire, but then he needs to accompany a cake lover to court (Eddie turned out to be a wonderful character, very sincere, you want to root for him) and then a full set of interesting situations begins, including betrayal of colleagues, hostage-taking, shootouts. And all for the sake of truth, including the sacrifice of detective Mosley.

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    Watched

    The most unconventional story in the spirit of "good cops against evil cops", with Bruce Willis in the atypical role of a tired and limping policeman, a good script and delicately built suspense.

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