![]() ![]() The whole thing is shot in that handheld style with a grainy look to make it appear to be a hard-edged actioner. It’s just see a bad guy, shoot them, they fall down or maybe sometimes fall from a high place. It’s incredibly routine and by-the-numbers. None of the shootouts or fights have anything special about them that make them memorable. Muldoon provides the action hero excitement. He casually runs around shooting bad guys, to the point where it just feels like he’s at a carnival shooting wooden ducks. There’s really not much to say about Deadlock. From reading the synopsis you should know exactly how things are going to unfold and you’re going to be correct. This is a very basic connect-the-dots actioner. Again, his character is not really worth getting into. He’s also given a sidekick in the form of a new security guard. That relationship isn’t given much time to explore or give the story any weight, so it’s barely worth mentioning. Muldoon also has a strained romance of sorts with a woman who also works at the plant, making this a personal mission to save these folks. He does the standard Die Hard thing of navigating hallways, climbing through vents and taking out baddies left and right, making his way to the big boss – which we know will inevitably come. There’s the hero of our movie Patrick Muldoon, who is running around the facility. What do you know, a local school has scheduled a field trip to the dam on this particular day too! So there we go, a lot of hostages. Any innocents that get in the way are just collateral damage in his mind. Angry, he decides to take over the dam/power plant and make those responsible be forced to own up and admit to their wrongdoing in his son’s death. So Willis’ son is killed in a botched raid by the local police. I would say it’s better than some of the other whoopers that have been made using his name to cash in, but let me reiterate that’s not an endorsement that you should rush out and watch this. It’s a disposable, forgettable action yarn, with nothing remotely interesting happening from start to finish. It might seem like an interesting take watching yet another Die Hard knock off with Willis playing the villain, but it’s not. Willis fans hoping for a quality, entertaining film from him would be the only ones getting the shaft.Īlas, that’s exactly what Deadlock is. Willis would make a quick payday and Emmett would have a product with a high-profile star to sell around the world. It’s a pretty bizarre partnership, but beneficial to both Willis and Emmett. The films would then be filled in around his small scenes and his name and face would help sell and promote them. Rather than lengthy shoots and demanding performances, Willis would don an earpiece, recite his lines, shoot his scenes for a day or two (in some instances only a few hours) and earn a cool million bucks or two. Signing deals with schlock producer Randall Emmet, they’ve churned out a chorus line of forgettable, B-grade flicks, that Willis at his height of his career, wouldn’t even flinch at turning down.īut things changed. ![]() His involvement is used as the selling point, since they don’t contain anything else worth mentioning.įans have learned the reason why Willis has been doing these subpar films and why he looks so listless in them, when the news came out he was suffering from aphasia and he would be retiring from acting.įor the last few years, while dealing with issues with his memory, he took on an assembly line of acting jobs that were not demanding and would pay big. The only attraction is that Willis is starring – or more like ‘appearing’ in them. If you’ve seen any of them – better that you don’t – you’ll understand. Willis in Cosmic SinĪll have these low-grade movies Willis has done all have these ‘cool’ action-y type names – Apex, A Day To Die, Survive the Game – and they’re all pretty much unwatchable garbage. That’s not to say I think it’s in any way worthwhile, just in comparison to some of the other latter movies Willis has made, it’s not the worst of the lot. ![]()
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