Apex - Bruce Willis (with spoilers)
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What... A... Crap... Film...
The story line is promising :-
"A group of hunters pays for an elite hunt on a desert island - hunting for a man. Everything goes as planned until the hunters are the prey. Former policeman James Malone (Bruce Willis) is serving a life sentence for a crime he did not commit. He is given a chance to regain freedom if he survives a deadly game in which a group of hunters pays for the pleasure of hunting another human on a remote island. Malone accepts the rules, and when he arrives, he unleashes all hell by creating traps and waging a psychological war against the hunters. Loosely based on The Most Dangerous Game."
BUT
I was looking forward to Bruce setting traps - like Stallone/John Rambo. Or Schwarzeneggar in the Predator, but no, they lied, he didn't even set one trap.
"Unleashes all hell" - No, they lied again. He wears a bright red bomber jacket in the woods and walks around within 30m of the hunters who cannot see him.
"Psychological war" - Again, another lie. The hunters just start turning on each other and kill each other with no effort from Willis.
These experienced hunters method of stalking involves walking in clearings shouting "Come out Malone". Really!
Do not waste your time watching this.
With this showing, Bruce Willis has fallen off a cliff, straight past Van Damme and quickly approaching Seagal.
The story line is promising :-
"A group of hunters pays for an elite hunt on a desert island - hunting for a man. Everything goes as planned until the hunters are the prey. Former policeman James Malone (Bruce Willis) is serving a life sentence for a crime he did not commit. He is given a chance to regain freedom if he survives a deadly game in which a group of hunters pays for the pleasure of hunting another human on a remote island. Malone accepts the rules, and when he arrives, he unleashes all hell by creating traps and waging a psychological war against the hunters. Loosely based on The Most Dangerous Game."
BUT
I was looking forward to Bruce setting traps - like Stallone/John Rambo. Or Schwarzeneggar in the Predator, but no, they lied, he didn't even set one trap.
"Unleashes all hell" - No, they lied again. He wears a bright red bomber jacket in the woods and walks around within 30m of the hunters who cannot see him.
"Psychological war" - Again, another lie. The hunters just start turning on each other and kill each other with no effort from Willis.
These experienced hunters method of stalking involves walking in clearings shouting "Come out Malone". Really!
Do not waste your time watching this.
With this showing, Bruce Willis has fallen off a cliff, straight past Van Damme and quickly approaching Seagal.
wong said:
What... A... Crap... Film...
The story line is promising :-
"A group of hunters pays for an elite hunt on a desert island - hunting for a man. Everything goes as planned until the hunters are the prey. Former policeman James Malone (Bruce Willis) is serving a life sentence for a crime he did not commit. He is given a chance to regain freedom if he survives a deadly game in which a group of hunters pays for the pleasure of hunting another human on a remote island. Malone accepts the rules, and when he arrives, he unleashes all hell by creating traps and waging a psychological war against the hunters. Loosely based on The Most Dangerous Game."
BUT
I was looking forward to Bruce setting traps - like Stallone/John Rambo. Or Schwarzeneggar in the Predator, but no, they lied, he didn't even set one trap.
"Unleashes all hell" - No, they lied again. He wears a bright red bomber jacket in the woods and walks around within 30m of the hunters who cannot see him.
"Psychological war" - Again, another lie. The hunters just start turning on each other and kill each other with no effort from Willis.
These experienced hunters method of stalking involves walking in clearings shouting "Come out Malone". Really!
Do not waste your time watching this.
With this showing, Bruce Willis has fallen off a cliff, straight past Van Damme and quickly approaching Seagal.
Is it so bad it's good ? Or does it hurtle past that too ? The story line is promising :-
"A group of hunters pays for an elite hunt on a desert island - hunting for a man. Everything goes as planned until the hunters are the prey. Former policeman James Malone (Bruce Willis) is serving a life sentence for a crime he did not commit. He is given a chance to regain freedom if he survives a deadly game in which a group of hunters pays for the pleasure of hunting another human on a remote island. Malone accepts the rules, and when he arrives, he unleashes all hell by creating traps and waging a psychological war against the hunters. Loosely based on The Most Dangerous Game."
BUT
I was looking forward to Bruce setting traps - like Stallone/John Rambo. Or Schwarzeneggar in the Predator, but no, they lied, he didn't even set one trap.
"Unleashes all hell" - No, they lied again. He wears a bright red bomber jacket in the woods and walks around within 30m of the hunters who cannot see him.
"Psychological war" - Again, another lie. The hunters just start turning on each other and kill each other with no effort from Willis.
These experienced hunters method of stalking involves walking in clearings shouting "Come out Malone". Really!
Do not waste your time watching this.
With this showing, Bruce Willis has fallen off a cliff, straight past Van Damme and quickly approaching Seagal.
wong said:
With this showing, Bruce Willis has fallen off a cliff, straight past Van Damme and quickly approaching Seagal.
Obviously something happened in his life where he needs cash, no idea what though. Usually takes a divorce, being ripped off or jail time (and being retired) for a former star to end up doing any straight to video s
te that crosses their agents' desk.It's weird really, he can still get decent jobs if he wants but goes for all this garbage instead.
Not quite hitting Seagal levels yet, not unless he starts to eat a lot more and spray paints that dome of his.
Getragdogleg said:
Is it so bad it's good ? Or does it hurtle past that too ?
Yes, it races past that. Seriously, do not even bother watching it for free. You would still feel hard done by if someone paid you to watch it. I did warn you, but if you do waste your time, you will feel let down and depressed afterwards.
He should stick to RED and it's sequels, his time as an action star is long gone and this has shades of more than one film
Hard Target 2 with Scott Adkins springs to mind and Ice T did one years ago with John C McGinley and Rutger Hauer that was along very very similr lines, Surving the Game. Ha, a quick google of the old film reveals Apex is a remake of it.
Hard Target 2 with Scott Adkins springs to mind and Ice T did one years ago with John C McGinley and Rutger Hauer that was along very very similr lines, Surving the Game. Ha, a quick google of the old film reveals Apex is a remake of it.
Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 27th December 19:34
Billyray911 said:
Interesting article…
https://collider.com/what-happened-to-bruce-willis...
Just read that. Very informative. Depressingly, at the end of that article it points out Willis has ELEVEN super low-budget action movies either in post-production or principal photography. https://collider.com/what-happened-to-bruce-willis...
He is definitely going to be relegated to the same league as Seagal.
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