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+ "page_snippet": "On February 16, 2023, Willis's family announced that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. According to Dr. Gregg Day, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic's Florida campus, the symptoms include difficulties with language and comprehension, as well as misinterpretation of instructions.At the time of his retirement, Willis had completed 11 films awaiting release. On February 16, 2023, Willis's family announced that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. According to Dr. Gregg Day, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic's Florida campus, the symptoms include difficulties with language and comprehension, as well as misinterpretation of instructions. Willis retired from acting in 2022 due to aphasia. He was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2023. As a singer, Willis released his debut album, The Return of Bruno, in 1987, followed by two more albums in 1989 and 2001. He made his Broadway debut in the stage adaptation of Misery in 2015. Willis's other notable credits include The Last Boy Scout (1991), Pulp Fiction (1994), 12 Monkeys (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), Armageddon (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable, The Whole Nine Yards (both 2000), Tears of the Sun (2003), Sin City (2005), The Expendables, Red (both 2010), Looper (2012) and Glass (2019). In the later years of his career, he starred in many low-budget direct-to-video films, which were mostly poorly received. Willis retired from acting in 2022 due to aphasia. He was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2023. Willis would often earn US$2 million for two days' work, with an average of 15 minutes' screentime per film. He was nonetheless featured heavily in the films' promotional materials, earning them the derogatory nickname \"geezer teasers\". The Golden Raspberry Awards, an annual award for the year's worst films and performances, created a dedicated category, the Worst Bruce Willis Performance in a 2021 Movie, for his roles in eight films released that year. Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American retired actor. He achieved fame with a leading role on the comedy-drama series Moonlighting (1985\u20131989) and has appeared in over a hundred films, gaining recognition as an action hero for his portrayal of John McClane in the Die Hard franchise (1988\u20132013).",
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Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American retired actor. He achieved fame with a leading role on the comedy-drama series Moonlighting (1985\u20131989) and has appeared in over a hundred films, gaining recognition as an action hero for his portrayal of John McClane in the Die Hard franchise (1988\u20132013).[1][2]\n
Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein in what was then West Germany.[3] His mother, Marlene,[4] was German, from Kassel,[5] and his father, David Willis, was an American soldier. He has a younger sister, Florence, and two younger brothers, Robert (deceased) and David.[6] After being discharged from the military in 1957, his father relocated the family to his hometown of Carneys Point, New Jersey. Willis has described his background as a \"long line of blue-collar people\".[7] His mother worked in a bank and his father was a welder, master mechanic and factory worker.[8]\n
Willis spoke with a stutter.[7] He attended Penns Grove High School in Carneys Point Township, where his schoolmates nicknamed him \"Buck-Buck\".[9][10] Willis joined the drama club, and found that acting on stage reduced his stutter. He was eventually elected student council president. He graduated from Penns Grove High School in 1973.[8]\n
Willis enrolled in the drama program at Montclair State University,[13] where he was cast in a production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He left the school in 1977, and moved to New York City, where he supported himself in the early 1980s as a bartender at Kamikaze, an art bar in Manhattan,[14][15] while living in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood.[16]\n
Willis was cast as David Addison Jr. in the television series Moonlighting (1985\u20131989), competing against 3,000 other actors for the position.[17] His starring role in Moonlighting, opposite Cybill Shepherd, helped to establish him as a comedic actor. During the show's five seasons, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor \u2013 Television Series Musical or Comedy.[7] During the height of the show's success, beverage maker Seagram hired Willis as the pitchman for their Golden Wine Cooler products.[18] The advertising campaign paid Willis US$5–7 million over two years. Willis chose not to renew his contract when he decided to stop drinking alcohol in 1988.[19]\n
In 1987, Willis obtained his first lead role in the Blake Edwards film Blind Date, co-starring with Kim Basinger and John Larroquette.[7] Edwards cast him again to play the real-life cowboy actor Tom Mix in Sunset (1988). The same year, he starred in an action role in Die Hard (1988) as John McClane.[7] He performed most of his own stunts in the film,[20] and the film grossed $138,708,852 worldwide.[21] Following his success with Die Hard, Willis had a leading role in the drama In Country as Vietnam veteran Emmett Smith and also provided the voice for a talking baby in Look Who's Talking (1989) and the sequel Look Who's Talking Too (1990).[22][23]\n
1990s: Die Hard sequels, Pulp Fiction and dramatic roles
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Having acquired major personal success and pop culture influence playing John McClane in Die Hard, Willis reprised his role in the sequels Die Hard 2 (1990) and Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995).[7] These first three installments in the Die Hard series grossed over US$700 million internationally and propelled Willis to the first rank of Hollywood action stars.[citation needed]\n
In the early 1990s, Willis's career suffered a moderate slump, as he starred in flops such as The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) and Hudson Hawk (1991), although he did find box office success with The Last Boy Scout. He gained more success with Striking Distance (1993) but flopped again with Color of Night (1994): it was savaged by critics but did well in the home video market and became one of the Top 20 most-rented films in the United States in 1995.[26]Maxim also ranked his sex scene in the film as the best in film history.[27]\n
In 1994, Willis also had a leading role in one part of Quentin Tarantino's acclaimed Pulp Fiction;[7] the film's success gave a boost to his career, and he starred alongside his Look Who's Talking co-star John Travolta.[28] In 1996, he was the executive producer and star of the cartoon Bruno the Kid which featured a CGI representation of himself. That same year, he starred in Mike Judge's animated film Beavis and Butt-head Do America with his then-wife Demi Moore. In the movie, he plays a drunken criminal named \"Muddy Grimes\", who mistakenly sends Judge's titular characters to kill his wife, Dallas (voiced by Moore). He then played the lead roles in 12 Monkeys (1995) and The Fifth Element (1997). However, by the end of the 1990s his career had fallen into another slump with critically panned films like The Jackal (which despite negative reviews was a box office hit), Mercury Rising, and Breakfast of Champions, as well as the implosion of the production of Broadway Brawler, a debacle salvaged only by the success of the Michael Bay-directed Armageddon, which Willis had agreed to star in as compensation for the failed production, and which turned out to be the highest-grossing film of 1998 worldwide.[29][30] The same year his voice and likeness were featured in the PlayStation video game Apocalypse.[31] In 1999, Willis played the starring role in M. Night Shyamalan's film The Sixth Sense, which was both a commercial and critical success.[7]\n
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In 2000, Willis won an Emmy[32] for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on Friends (in which he played the father of Ross Geller's much-younger girlfriend).[33] He was also nominated for a 2001 American Comedy Award (in the Funniest Male Guest Appearance in a TV Series category) for his work on Friends. Also in 2000, Willis played Jimmy \"The Tulip\" Tudeski in The Whole Nine Yards alongside Matthew Perry. Willis was originally cast as Terry Benedict in Ocean's Eleven (2001) but dropped out to work on recording an album.[34] In the sequel, Ocean's Twelve (2004), he makes a cameo appearance as himself. In 2005, he appeared in the film adaptation of Sin City. In 2006, he lent his voice as RJ the Raccoon in Over the Hedge. In 2007, he appeared in the Planet Terror half of the double feature Grindhouse as the villain, a mutant soldier. This marked Willis's second collaboration with the director Robert Rodriguez, following Sin City.\n
Willis appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman several times throughout his career. He filled in for an ill David Letterman on his show on February 26, 2003, when he was supposed to be a guest.[35] On many of his appearances on the show, Willis staged elaborate jokes, such as wearing a day-glo orange suit in honor of the Central Park gates, having one side of his face made up with simulated birdshot wounds after the Harry Whittington shooting, or trying to break a record (a parody of David Blaine) of staying underwater for only twenty seconds.\n
On April 12, 2007, he appeared again, this time wearing a Sanjaya Malakar wig.[36] On his June 25, 2007, appearance, he wore a mini-wind turbine on his head to accompany a joke about his own fictional documentary titled An Unappealing Hunch (a wordplay on An Inconvenient Truth).[37] Willis also appeared in Japanese Subaru Legacy television commercials.[38] Tying in with this, Subaru did a limited run of Legacys, badged \"Subaru Legacy Touring Bruce\", in honor of Willis.\n
As of 2010, Willis was the eighth highest-grossing actor in a leading role and 12th-highest including supporting roles.[42][43] Willis starred with Tracy Morgan in the 2010 comedy Cop Out, directed by Kevin Smith, about two police detectives investigating the theft of a baseball card.[44] Willis appeared in the music video for the song \"Stylo\" by Gorillaz.[45] Also in 2010, he appeared in a cameo with the former Planet Hollywood co-owners and 80s action stars Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film The Expendables. Willis played the role of CIA agent \"Mr. Church\". It was the first time the three action stars had appeared on screen together. Although the scene featuring the three was short, it was one of the most highly anticipated scenes in the film. The trio filmed their scene in an empty church on October 24, 2009.[46] Willis next starred in RED, an adaptation of the comic book mini-series of the same name, in which he portrayed Frank Moses. The film was released on October 15, 2010.[47]\n
Willis reprised his most famous role, John McClane, for a fifth time, starring in A Good Day to Die Hard, which was released on February 14, 2013.[52] In an interview, Willis said, \"I have a warm spot in my heart for Die Hard..... it's just the sheer novelty of being able to play the same character over 25 years and still be asked back is fun. It's much more challenging to have to do a film again and try to compete with myself, which is what I do in Die Hard. I try to improve my work every time.\"[53]\n
2020s: Critical decline, health problems and retirement
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In the final years of his career, Willis starred in many low-budget independent thrillers and science fiction films.[58] He worked primarily with the production companies Emmett/Furla Oasis, headed by Randall Emmett, and 308 Entertainment Inc, headed by Corey Large. Emmett/Furla Oasis produced 20 films starring Willis.[59] Described by Chris Nashawaty of Esquire as \"a profitable safe harbor\" for older actors, similar to The Expendables, most of the films were released direct-to-video and were widely panned.[58] Willis would often earn US$2 million for two days' work, with an average of 15 minutes' screentime per film.[60] He was nonetheless featured heavily in the films' promotional materials, earning them the derogatory nickname \"geezer teasers\".[61][62] The Golden Raspberry Awards, an annual award for the year's worst films and performances, created a dedicated category, the Worst Bruce Willis Performance in a 2021 Movie, for his roles in eight films released that year.[63]\n
Those working on the films later said Willis appeared confused, did not understand why he was there and had to be fed lines through an earpiece.[59] Days before Willis was scheduled to arrive on set for Out of Death (2021), the screenwriter was instructed to reduce his role and abbreviate his dialogue, and the director, Mike Burns, was told to complete all of Willis's scenes in a single day of filming.[59] \n
On March 30, 2022, Willis's family announced that he was retiring because he had been diagnosed with aphasia, a disorder typically caused by damage to the area of the brain that controls language expression and comprehension.[64] The Golden Raspberry Awards retracted its Willis category, saying it was inappropriate to award a Golden Raspberry to someone whose performance was affected by a medical condition.[65] At the time of his retirement, Willis had completed 11 films awaiting release.[64][66][67] \n
On February 16, 2023, Willis's family announced that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.[68] According to Dr. Gregg Day, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic's Florida campus, the symptoms include difficulties with language and comprehension, as well as misinterpretation of instructions.[69] In a statement, the family said that Willis's condition had progressed and that \"challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease\".[70] They expressed hope that media attention on Willis would raise awareness about the disease.[71]\n
In 2009, Willis signed a contract to become the international face of Belvedere SA's Sobieski Vodka in exchange for 3.3% ownership in the company.[77]\n
At the premiere for the film Stakeout, Willis met actress Demi Moore. They married on November 21, 1987, and had three daughters, including Rumer, who was born in August 1988.[81][82][83][84] Willis and Moore announced their separation on June 24, 1998.[85] They filed for divorce on October 18, 2000,[86] and the divorce was finalized later that day.[87][88] Regarding the divorce, Willis stated, \"I felt I had failed as a father and a husband by not being able to make it work.\" He credited actor Will Smith for helping him cope with the situation.[18] He has maintained a close friendship with both Moore and her subsequent husband, actor Ashton Kutcher, and attended their wedding.[89]\n
Willis was engaged to actress Brooke Burns until they broke up in 2004 after ten months together.[17] He married model Emma Heming in Turks and Caicos on March 21, 2009;[90] guests included his three daughters, as well as Moore and Kutcher. The ceremony was not legally binding, so the couple wed again in a civil ceremony in Beverly Hills six days later. The couple has two daughters, one born in 2012[91] and another born in 2014.[92]\n
Throughout his film career, Willis has depicted several military characters in films such as In Country, The Siege, Hart's War, Tears of the Sun, Grindhouse, and G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Willis grew up in a military family. Willis has donated Girl Scout cookies to the United States armed forces. In 2002, Willis's then 8-year-old daughter, Tallulah, suggested that he purchase Girl Scout cookies to send to troops. Willis purchased 12,000 boxes of cookies, and they were distributed to sailors aboard USS John F. Kennedy and other troops stationed throughout the Middle East at the time.[93]\n
In 2003, Willis visited Iraq as part of the USO tour, singing to the troops with his band, The Accelerators.[94] Willis considered joining the military to help fight the second Iraq War, but was deterred by his age.[95] It was believed he offered US$1 million to any noncombatant who turned in terrorist leaders Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; in the June 2007 issue of Vanity Fair, however, he clarified that the statement was made hypothetically and not meant to be taken literally. Willis has also criticized the media for its coverage of the war, complaining that the press was more likely to focus on the negative aspects of the war:\n
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I went to Iraq because what I saw when I was over there was soldiers\u2014young kids for the most part\u2014helping people in Iraq; helping getting the power turned back on, helping get hospitals open, helping get the water turned back on and you don't hear any of that on the news. You hear, \"X number of people were killed today,\" which I think does a huge disservice. It's like spitting on these young men and women who are over there fighting to help this country.[96]
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Willis was a Lutheran,[97] but says he no longer practices. In a July 1998 interview with George magazine, he said, \"Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened. Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally. Literally! I choose not to believe that's the way. And that's what makes America cool, you know?\"[98]\n
When asked by a Hollywood.tv reporter how he stays grounded in Hollywood, Willis said, \"I just thank God every day for...everything great that's come my way.\"[99]\n
In 2006, Willis said that the United States should intervene more extensively in Colombia to end drug trafficking from that nation.[102] In several interviews Willis has said that he supports increased salaries for teachers and police officers, and that he is disappointed in the United States foster care system and its treatment of Native Americans.[100][103] Willis has supported gun rights, saying, \"Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys.\"[104]\n
In February 2006, when Willis was in Manhattan to promote his film 16 Blocks, he was asked his opinion on the Bush administration, and Willis responded, \"I'm sick of answering this fucking question. I'm a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government, I want less government intrusion. I want them to stop shitting on my money and your money and tax dollars that we give 50 percent of every year. I want them to be fiscally responsible and I want these goddamn lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I'll say I'm a Republican. I hate the government, OK? I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.\"[105] Willis did not make any contributions or public endorsements in the 2008 presidential campaign. In several June 2007 interviews, he declared that he maintains some Republican ideologies.[18]\n
2000: American Cinematheque Gala Tribute honored Willis with the American Cinematheque Award for an extraordinary artist in the entertainment industry who is fully engaged in his or her work and is committed to making a significant contribution to the art of the motion pictures.
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2002: Appointed as national spokesman for Children in Foster Care by President George W. Bush;[110] Willis wrote online: \"I saw Foster Care as a way for me to serve my country in a system by which shining a little bit of light could benefit a great deal by helping kids who were literally wards of the government.\"[111]
2006: Honored by French government for his contributions to the film industry; appointed an Officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters in a ceremony in Paris; the French Prime Minister stated, \"This is France's way of paying tribute to an actor who epitomizes the strength of American cinema, the power of the emotions that he invites us to share on the world's screens and the sturdy personalities of his legendary characters.\"[113]
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2006: Honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on October 16; located at 6915 Hollywood Boulevard and it was the 2,321st star awarded in its history; at the reception, he stated, \"I used to come down here and look at these stars and I could never quite figure out what you were supposed to do to get one...time has passed and now here I am doing this, and I'm still excited. I'm still excited to be an actor.\"[114]
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^\"Film starring Bruce Willis to be shot in RI\". The Boston Globe. Providence, R.I. Associated Press. March 24, 2011. Archived from the original on June 25, 2018. Retrieved April 6, 2011. Steven Feinberg, executive director for the Rhode Island Film and Television Office, says on-site work on the film, 'Moonrise Kingdom,' is scheduled to begin this spring. Feinberg says the film will be shot in several locations in Rhode Island.\n
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+ "page_snippet": "By Arrow S. Morgan Published Mar 30, 2023 \u00b7 The last leg of Bruce Willis' career has been tumultuous: even then, there are gems.Bruce Willis is an acting legend: a few of his last movies got negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, but there are still some diamonds in the rough. Critics were largely kind to this film, considering it one of the best of Bruce Willis' late career. The plot, rendered surprisingly complex by a series of twists throughout the movie, was praised and criticized in equal measure; Willis, meanwhile, was noted as being significantly more present in the role than in most of his post-diagnosis outings (with one review comparing his performance to Kobe Bryant's final NBA game). RELATED: Bruce Willis Denies Selling His Digital Likeness to Deepfake Company \u00b7 Critics largely roasted this film for being derivative and uninspired, making negative comparisons to Alien and The Thing. Willis' performance was noted as a relative bright spot, with reviews pointing him out as particularly lively compared to other late-career roles. However, the movie was still unable to rise above its unoriginal concept and cheap production value. Critics destroyed this film for its clumsy use of cryptocurrency as a plot point, Willis' weak performance, and its slow pace. One dissenting review noted it as being a thrilling action movie; however, critics were largely united in their dislike of this film. ... In this neo-noir thriller, Bruce Willis and Luke Wilson star as homicide detectives tasked with solving a vicious Hollywood murder.",
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Bruce Willishas established himself as a screen legend over his four-decade-long career, with roles such as Die Hard,Moonlighting, and Pulp Fiction permanently cementing him in the minds of filmgoers everywhere. As his career comes to a close, due in large part to his diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia, he has found himself mostly appearing in smaller, lower-budget non-theatrical productions.
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While these films are widely maligned and dismissed as Redbox filler, in no small part due to the sheer number of them — Willis has appeared in 36, counting the upcoming film Assassin, which marks his final screen appearance — that same factor ensures that there are a few diamonds in the rough worth audiences' time.
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10 'Survive the Game' (2021)
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Willis plays a police officer, David, injured during a drug bust gone wrong. His partner pursues the culprits to a farm owned by a troubled veteran (Chad Michael Murray), and the three men must use their wits and tactical abilities to defeat a mob of angry drug pushers in this James Cullen Bressack-directed action thriller.
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The film was heavily lambasted for its weak performances, particularly from Willis, who is given very little to do in the film. One dissenting review referred to it as a solid, no-frills action flick, but others were quick to describe the movie as feeling as though it were shot by amateurs. Negative reviews pointed out a derivative script, no real flair to its direction, and incompetent fight choreography and stunt work.
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9 'Breach' (2020)
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Rotten Tomatoes: 19%
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Also known under the name Anti-Life, in this sci-fi film, Cody Kearsley plays the janitor of an interstellar ark carrying three hundred thousand people away from a dying earth. When a parasitic alien breaks free, the crew (including Willis as the protagonist's boss and Thomas Jane in a supporting role) must find a way to prevent it from reaching the cryogenically-frozen passengers.
Critics largely roasted this film for being derivative and uninspired, making negative comparisons to Alienand The Thing. Willis' performance was noted as a relative bright spot, with reviews pointing him out as particularly lively compared to other late-career roles. However, the movie was still unable to rise above its unoriginal concept and cheap production value.
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8 'Trauma Center' (2019)
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In this action-thriller, Willis plays a police officer attempting to keep a lone woman safe in a locked-down hospital ward after she witnesses a murder committed by corrupt police officers.
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Critics largely demolished this film for its paper-thin plot and extraordinarily cheap production values. Nicky Whelan, playing the film's female lead, was noted as a surprising bright spot. However, the film was criticized for Bruce Willis barely appearing in it and for making poor use of its limited location, with little creativity applied to its action staging.
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7 'Fortress' (2021)
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In this action film, mercenaries storm a retirement community to rob it of six hundred million dollars in cryptocurrency. Willis, playing an ex-CIA agent, is tasked with defeating the mercenaries, including their leader, Balzary (Chad Michael Murray).
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Critics destroyed this film for its clumsy use of cryptocurrency as a plot point, Willis' weak performance, and its slow pace. One dissenting review noted it as being a thrilling action movie; however, critics were largely united in their dislike of this film.
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6 'Gasoline Alley' (2022)
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In this neo-noir thriller, Bruce Willis and Luke Wilson star as homicide detectives tasked with solving a vicious Hollywood murder. In addition, Devon Sawa (of recent Chucky fame) stars as a reformed ex-con suspected of the murder who embarks on his own investigation to prove his innocence.
This film drew surprisingly strong reviews from critics, with some noting Devon Sawa's performance as a major strong point of the film. However, many criticized it for being derivative of Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive. While critics largely gave Willis' performance a light touch due to his aphasia diagnosis having been made public, the film drew criticism for being simply another direct-to-video Bruce Willis film, with little to make it stand out beyond Sawa's performance.
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5 'Corrective Measures' (2022)
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In this comic-book-adapted prison drama, Bruce Willis plays The Lobe, a mind-controlling supervillain sent to a prison for people with extraordinary abilities. Tensions rise as the prison's warden attempts to extort The Lobe out of his fortune, and eventually, anarchy erupts when things boil over.
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Critics were relatively kind to this film, released shortly after Willis made his retirement from acting public. Some noted it as a fun throwback to genre films of old, with one review comparing it to The Toxic Avenger, and its odd high concept was largely praised. However, critics were quick to point out how being a late-career direct-to-streaming Willis film holds it back, stopping short of considering it a true hidden gem.
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4 'Motherless Brooklyn' (2019)
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Rotten Tomatoes Score: 64%
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In this noir thriller directed by Edward Norton, Norton plays a private detective tasked with solving the murder of his mentor (Willis). While searching through the jazz clubs of Brooklyn and Harlem, the protagonist stumbles upon a web of secrets and conspiracy, unlike anything he had ever seen before.
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While Willis' role in the film is very small, the role marked the final time he would be seen on screen in theaters. The film was widely praised for its aesthetic sensibilities and thematic depth, though criticized for its departures from its source novel and its extraordinarily slow pacing. While Willis drew little specific note from critics, his performance was praised as part of an overall strong ensemble.
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3 'Detective Knight: Rogue' (2022)
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Rotten Tomatoes: 67%
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In this police procedural, Willis plays Detective James Knight, a veteran Los Angeles police officer tasked with chasing a mask-wearing gang of robbers to New York after they wound his partner (Lochlyn Munro).
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Critics were largely kind to this film, considering it one of the best of Bruce Willis' late career. The plot, rendered surprisingly complex by a series of twists throughout the movie, was praised and criticized in equal measure; Willis, meanwhile, was noted as being significantly more present in the role than in most of his post-diagnosis outings (with one review comparing his performance to Kobe Bryant's final NBA game).
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Rotten Tomatoes: 67%
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In custody after the events of the previous film, Det. Knight (Willis) finds himself caught in a jailbreak orchestrated by a Santa Claus-themed terrorist gang. Promised his badge back in exchange for defeating the terrorists, Det. Knight embarks on a Die Hard-esque crusade for justice.
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Much like the previous film, this entry in the Detective Knighttrilogy was noted as a surprisingly good action film, given its low budget and ailing star. Critics were largely sympathetic to the difficulties in Willis' performance, and the film was noted as having surprisingly strong underlying themes and subtext. However, some critics pointed out that the tricks used to film around Willis' difficulties sometimes led to absurd results, rendering the movie at times bizarre to watch.
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1 'Detective Knight: Independence' (2023)
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Assigned to work the July 4th parade in Los Angeles, Det. Knight (Willis) finds himself in a race against time to stop an EMT posing as a cop from committing a vigilante crime spree across the city.
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This film received the same kind of reception as its predecessors, with critics specifically noting it as a fitting end to Willis' career. The film drew some mild criticism for various technical flubs, along with having little to do with its predecessors. However, it was regarded as a solid action thriller.
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Assassin, the final previously announced film starring Bruce Willis, has received an official release date. The actor, who first rose to fame thanks to his role in the sitcom Moonlighting, has been an action and drama star since his lead role in the smash hit 1988 film Die Hard, holding roles in popular films including Pulp Fiction and The Sixth Sense. Last March, Willis' family announced that he had retired from acting after a diagnosis of aphasia, and a health update last week revealed that he had also been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
Per Collider, Assassin is now set to release on March 31. The release will be day-and-date, so the film will be available in certain theaters and VOD on the same day. This is the same weekend as the release of the fantasy epic Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, so it could provide some solid counter-programming for the more family-friendly outing.
Assassin is one of a string of lower-budget action films that Willis made in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Other titles in this vein included Midnight in the Switchgrass, Fortress, and Vendetta. This particular outing is the debut directorial feature from Jesse Atlas, who co-wrote the film with Aaron Wolfe, adapting their 2017 short film Let Them Die Like Lovers.
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The film is centered around a futuristic technology that allows people to carry out undercover missions using a microchip that allows them to take over other people's bodies. Willis plays Valmora, the leader of the operation that uses this technology. Assassin also stars Legends of Tomorrow's Dominic Purcell, Coming 2 America's Nomzamo Mbatha, and Luke Cage's Mustafa Shakir.
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Considering Willishas starred in nearly two dozen similar films since 2020, it remains to be seen ifAssassincan garner much audience interest. In particular, several of his recent films align with the action genre, including his final film. However, the fact that it is the final film of his that was known to be in development may boost its status over its peers. Assassin has an R-rating and an 88-minute movie runtime, which could register as Willis' final acting time before full retirement. It will also serve as the case of honoring Willis' Hollywood legacy that spans three decades.
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+ "page_snippet": "As recently as 2019, Bruce Willis was appearing in substantial roles in major Hollywood movies, including M. Night Shyamalan\u2019s \u201cUnbreakable\u201d sequel, \u201cGlass,\u201d and Edward Norton\u2019s period-piece noir mystery \u201cMotherless Brooklyn.\u201d From 2020 through 2023, we\u2019ve seen the name of ...As recently as 2019, Bruce Willis was appearing in substantial roles in major Hollywood movies, including M. Night Shyamalan\u2019s \u201cUnbreakable\u201d sequel, \u201cGlass,\u201d and Edward Norton\u2019s period-piece noir mystery \u201cMotherless Brooklyn.\u201d From 2020 through 2023, we\u2019ve seen the name of Bruce Willis on some two dozen posters \u2014 for direct-to-video and unfortunately disposable fare with titles such as \u201cHard Kill,\u201d \u201cOut of Death,\u201d \u201cDeadlock,\u201d \u201cAmerican Siege,\u201d \u201cVendetta\u201d and \u201cA Day to Die.\u201d \u00b7 We don\u2019t know exactly when Mr. Willis started experiencing symptoms from frontotemporal dementia, but reports indicate that in recent years, he was having difficulties with his lines, sometimes seemed disoriented and was receiving lines through an earpiece. It\u2019s sad to watch the screen legend, now retired after a dementia diagnosis, lacking his trademark twinkle in a convoluted sci-fi actioner. The screen legend, now retired after a dementia diagnosis, seems disengaged in the convoluted sci-fi actioner. So it goes with all of these films from the 2020s featuring Bruce Willis. When we look back at Willis\u2019 remarkable body of work spanning some four decades, it won\u2019t be about the last few years. It will be to celebrate Willis\u2019 breakout TV role in \u201cMoonlighting,\u201d where he first perfected his signature wise-ass yet likable outsider style, through his unforgettable work in \u201cDie Hard,\u201d a nearly perfect action movie, and the wide range of movie star-level greatness in a myriad of genres, from \u201cThe Sixth Sense\u201d and \u201cUnbreakable\u201d to \u201cPulp Fiction\u201d and \u201cSin City,\u201d to \u201c12 Monkeys\u201d and \u201cMoonrise Kingdom,\u201d and we shouldn\u2019t neglect quieter fare such as \u201cIn Country\u201d and \u201cNobody\u2019s Fool.\u201d It\u2019s a brilliant career.",
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In his last film, \u201cAssassin,\u201d Bruce Willis plays the head of a mysterious secret ops.
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As recently as 2019, Bruce Willis was appearing in substantial roles in major Hollywood movies, including M. Night Shyamalan\u2019s \u201cUnbreakable\u201d sequel, \u201cGlass,\u201d and Edward Norton\u2019s period-piece noir mystery \u201cMotherless Brooklyn.\u201d From 2020 through 2023, we\u2019ve seen the name of Bruce Willis on some two dozen posters \u2014 for direct-to-video and unfortunately disposable fare with titles such as \u201cHard Kill,\u201d \u201cOut of Death,\u201d \u201cDeadlock,\u201d \u201cAmerican Siege,\u201d \u201cVendetta\u201d and \u201cA Day to Die.\u201d
We don\u2019t know exactly when Mr. Willis started experiencing symptoms from frontotemporal dementia, but reports indicate that in recent years, he was having difficulties with his lines, sometimes seemed disoriented and was receiving lines through an earpiece. On many a shoot, Willis was on set for just a couple of days and wound up with limited screen time. He\u2019s in \u201cHard Kill\u201d for all of seven minutes.
Willis\u2019 family announced in March 2022 that the 67-year-old screen legend had been diagnosed with aphasia and was retiring from acting. Now comes the release of Willis\u2019 last film, the occasionally intriguing but convoluted and nearly indecipherable sci-fi action film \u201cAssassin,\u201d with Willis once again front and center on the poster, even though his is a supporting role.
Saban Films presents a film directed by Jesse Atlas and written by Atlas and Aaron Wolfe. Rated R (for violence and language). Running time: 88 minutes. Opens Friday at Cinema Chatham and on demand.
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When Willis does appear in the role of Valmora, the head of a mysterious and experimental and dangerous secret ops, he seems present in the moment and he delivers his lines efficiently, but we don\u2019t see much of the trademark twinkle, there\u2019s very little physicality in the role, and it\u2019s highly doubtful even a single word was improvised. He seems disengaged \u2014 and yes, it\u2019s possible our perceptions are clouded by what we know of his diagnosis \u2014 but still, we cannot help but feel an overall sense of sadness.
It\u2019s impossible to put that aside as we sit through this competently made but often irritatingly gimmicky and overwrought actioner.
The talented South African actor Nomzano Mbatha (\u201cComing 2 America\u201d) has the lead in \u201cAssassin\u201d as Alexa, an American soldier who is romantically involved with Mustafa Shakir\u2019s Sebastian, who\u2019s also enlisted in the Army and pulls duty as a drone pilot \u2014 and yet somehow winds up in a coma, even though he\u2019s thousands of miles removed from the actual battlefield. How can this be?
Enter Willis\u2019 Valmora, who takes Alexa to a remote safe house in the middle of nowhere (filming took place in Bessemer, Alabama). Along for the ride are Barry Jay Minoff\u2019s tech whiz, Marko, and Fernanda Andrade\u2019s Olivia, a scientist who is around mostly to lend a sympathetic ear as Alexa learns of a super-secret operation that allows one to literally inhabit the bodies of other individuals, sort of like in that movie \u201cFallen,\u201d where the devil himself could hop from host body to host body.
In \u201cAssassin,\u201d you put on a wetsuit, climb into a tub filled with ice, and you\u2019re hooked up to some gizmo that looks like it was purloined from a 1970s science fiction movie prop warehouse. \u201cIf you want answers about Sebastian, you\u2019ve got to put this on,\u201d says Olivia, holding up Alexa\u2019s own personal wetsuit.
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Alexa dons the suit and finds herself transported into the body of a blond woman and fending off the attack of a knife-wielding guy before she\u2019s transported back to her own self. \u201cWe just digitally mapped your consciousness into another person\u2019s body,\u201d explains Marko the tech whiz. Ah, that old trick. \u201cWe kill the bad guys, somebody else takes the fall,\u201d says Valmora. \u201cIt\u2019s just that simple.\u201d
With that, Alexa becomes the new body-hopping killer for the operation, with her prime target being Adrien (Dominic Purcell), a powerful \u201cfixer\u2019s fixer.\u201d We\u2019re told this guy can \u201csmuggle the Obamas into China and an entire cartel into Texas, completely unnoticed,\u201d how about that \u2014 and we learn he\u2019s the one who shot and nearly killed Sebastian, who was in another host body at the time. Now it\u2019s up to Alexa to go undercover, get close to Adrien, take him out and retrieve the tech that can save Sebastian. Something like that.
With Mbatha carrying the heavy load, Willis drops in now and again \u2014 and we\u2019ll say no more about the destiny of Valmora. Clocking in at a brisk 88 minutes, \u201cAssassin\u201d reaches a heartfelt but ludicrous conclusion, and you\u2019ll start to forget it moments after the final credits.
So it goes with all of these films from the 2020s featuring Bruce Willis. When we look back at Willis\u2019 remarkable body of work spanning some four decades, it won\u2019t be about the last few years. It will be to celebrate Willis\u2019 breakout TV role in \u201cMoonlighting,\u201d where he first perfected his signature wise-ass yet likable outsider style, through his unforgettable work in \u201cDie Hard,\u201d a nearly perfect action movie, and the wide range of movie star-level greatness in a myriad of genres, from \u201cThe Sixth Sense\u201d and \u201cUnbreakable\u201d to \u201cPulp Fiction\u201d and \u201cSin City,\u201d to \u201c12 Monkeys\u201d and \u201cMoonrise Kingdom,\u201d and we shouldn\u2019t neglect quieter fare such as \u201cIn Country\u201d and \u201cNobody\u2019s Fool.\u201d It\u2019s a brilliant career.
With a \u201cfinancing partnership\u201d between the two sports teams now in the works, Chicagoans know more about what they might be up against: Two wealthy sports teams joining forces to get huge taxpayer subsidies.
White put up a career-high 37 points in Monday\u2019s comeback win against the Kings, but all he could do afterward was credit teammates and talk about the resiliency of the locker room. Sounds like DeMar DeRozan has finally found a true co-closer.
Blackwell has finally found a comfort level with the Hawks and is expecting his first child this summer \u2014 two reasons he would prefer to stay in Chicago past the trade deadline Friday.
Proposals include ensuring every school has a librarian, band, art and sports, as well as staff focused on restorative discipline. The current CTU contract expires in June.
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Assassin, the final previously announced film starring Bruce Willis, has received an official release date. The actor, who first rose to fame thanks to his role in the sitcom Moonlighting, has been an action and drama star since his lead role in the smash hit 1988 film Die Hard, holding roles in popular films including Pulp Fiction and The Sixth Sense. Last March, Willis' family announced that he had retired from acting after a diagnosis of aphasia, and a health update last week revealed that he had also been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
Per Collider, Assassin is now set to release on March 31. The release will be day-and-date, so the film will be available in certain theaters and VOD on the same day. This is the same weekend as the release of the fantasy epic Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, so it could provide some solid counter-programming for the more family-friendly outing.
Assassin is one of a string of lower-budget action films that Willis made in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Other titles in this vein included Midnight in the Switchgrass, Fortress, and Vendetta. This particular outing is the debut directorial feature from Jesse Atlas, who co-wrote the film with Aaron Wolfe, adapting their 2017 short film Let Them Die Like Lovers.
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The film is centered around a futuristic technology that allows people to carry out undercover missions using a microchip that allows them to take over other people's bodies. Willis plays Valmora, the leader of the operation that uses this technology. Assassin also stars Legends of Tomorrow's Dominic Purcell, Coming 2 America's Nomzamo Mbatha, and Luke Cage's Mustafa Shakir.
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Considering Willishas starred in nearly two dozen similar films since 2020, it remains to be seen ifAssassincan garner much audience interest. In particular, several of his recent films align with the action genre, including his final film. However, the fact that it is the final film of his that was known to be in development may boost its status over its peers. Assassin has an R-rating and an 88-minute movie runtime, which could register as Willis' final acting time before full retirement. It will also serve as the case of honoring Willis' Hollywood legacy that spans three decades.
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