Posts Tagged ‘Bruce Willis’

Short Take: Decently entertaining, but largely disappointing

Director: Sylvester Stallone (Rambo)

Screenwriters: Dave Callaham (Doom), Sylvester Stallone (Rocky franchise)

Cast: Sylvester Stallone (Rocky Balboa), Jason Satham (Crank: High Voltage), Jet Li (The Forbidden Kingdom), Giselle Itie, Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight), Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV), Mickey Rourke (Iron Man 2), Terry Crews (Idiocracy), Randy Couture, Steve Austin (The Longest Yard)

Length: 1h 43m

Synopsis: A group of mercenaries are offered a job by the CIA to kill a warlord that has taken over the island country of Vilena. The mercenaries know that the CIA is hiring them instead of doing the dirty work themselves because if things would happen to go wrong then news of the fact that an ex-CIA agent was part of the warlord’s inner circle would leak out. Meanwhile, in the process of tackling this thorny mission the mercenaries get entangled with a woman who is part of the island’s underground resistance against the warlord, and as it turns out her predicament is far more personal than they could have known. Despite lacking confidence that they can succeed in this tremendous undertaking by themselves the mercenaries decide to take the moral high ground and do the dutiful. Now all they have to do is survive. Read the rest of this entry »

Writer/Director M. Night Shyamalan

The Hollywood Reporter has announced that writer/director M. Night Shyamalan has been shopping a new script around Hollywood, and that there might already be a cast for it.

Bruce Willis, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Bradley Cooper‘s names have been “loosely tied” to the project. If Willis officially signs on, it will be the third time he and the director will have worked together (The Sixth Sense – 1999, Unbreakable – 2000). No details about the story are yet known, as it is being kept secret from anyone outside executive offices.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Quick Opinion: Shyamalan’s previous three films (The Village, Lady in the Water, The Happening) each endured their share of critical beat downs – particularly Lady in the Water and The Happening - and so the once-acclaimed director is certainly hoping that this summer’s The Last Airbender (July 1st) will bring him out of his slump. If nothing else, he surely hopes that the film proves commercially successful so that he can use that momentum to get this newest project green-lighted. If he can prove to studios that he’s still capable of putting butts in the seats it would go a long way towards salvaging his career – or at least his career as a director. Even with his worst films he has proven that he can come up with original and interesting concepts, so if he’s ever relegated to being just a writer then whatever he writes can be possibly improved upon through collaboration with other directors and writers. And if this were to happen Shyamalan should count his blessings because there are far worse fates in the movie industry.

Short Take: There's much more to it beyond first glance

Director: Jonathon Mostow

Screenwriters: Michael Ferris and John Brancato (The Net, Terminator Salvation)

Cast: Bruce Willis (Live Free or Die Hard), Ving Rhames (M-I:III), Rosamund Pike (Pride and Prejudice), Radha Mitchell (Melinda and Melinda, Silent Hill)

Length: 1h 28m

Synopsis: Set in the future when most Americans, and over 1 billion people worldwide, live their lives by using advanced puppet-like robots called surrogates that allow them to experience the world from the safety of their own homes. Small groups of people are adamantly against the use of surrogates, claiming that doing so robs people of their humanity because experiences are no longer the peoples’, but their robots’. Things get complicated when one of these surrogate-less groups, led by a spiritualist known as The Prophet (Rhames), gets their hands on a weapon that is capable of killing someone through their surrogate. The weapon becomes the key in a web of mysteries that will determine the future of surrogates, as well as the people who use them. Read the rest of this entry »