16 Blocks (DVD)

Release Date: 2006 Director: Richard Donner Runtime: 110 mins Approx Certificate: 12 I bought this from HMV about 2 months ago when I was in town, having never seen it before and being a fan of Bruce Willis. It was a cheap price at £5 and definetly worth the money. ===Disk 1: Main Feature. === Bruce Willis plays a depressed looking cop that goes by the name of Jack Mosley who is definetly ready for retirment, As he's about to finish up for the night he's ordered to take a assignment of escorting key witness Eddie Bunker (Mos Def) to a court hearing '16 Blocks' away. He picks him up and is on the way to court ...

The January sales seem to be a very good time to pick up a few bargain films. In fact places like HMV during the sales is one of those places my Bank Manager probably wishes I would avoid. On my latest trip I spotted 16 Blocks for £7. I'd never heard of it before but with Bruce Willis in the lead role I thought it might just be worth a try. So I parted with the cash and headed on home with my copy to see what it was like. The fact that at the very same time, some 80 miles away in Milton Keynes my girlfriend had the exact same thought is irrelevant. The movie opens on a bus, surrounded by armed police with police officer Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis) giving his ...

I caught the trailer for “16 Blocks” a while ago, when I was at the cinema to see “Inside Man”. It looked like a pretty good film, but “Inside Man” was so good that I was sure I’d made the right choice. In addition, “16 Blocks” starred Mos Def, a man who I thought made a dreadful Ford Prefect in “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and I was in no real rush to watch it. So I promptly forgot about it until recently, when I had the chance to see it. Jack Mosley is a New York cop who, at the end of a long shift, is asked to transport a witness, Eddie Bunker, sixteen blocks through New York from a holding cell to the courthouse in time to testify in an important ...