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...
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.
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.
Fast-paced, tense and intermittently exciting, Donner’s latest will keep genre fans engaged with its polished blend of tried and tested eleme...
16 Blocks seems as if it has been around the block a time or two.
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.
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...
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...
Another urban action thriller that’s better than some, worse than most and so forgettable that it’s possible to forget it while watchin...
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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