Synopsis
An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking witness from police custody to a courthouse, but they find themselves running the gauntlet as other forces try to prevent them from getting there.
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Cast
- Bruce WillisJack Mosley
- Yasiin BeyEddie Bunker (as Mos Def)
- David MorseFrank Nugent
- Jenna SternDiane Mosley
- Casey SanderCaptain Dan Gruber
- Cylk CozartJimmy Mulvey
- David ZayasRobert Torres
- Robert RackiJerry Shue
- Patrick GarrowTouhey
- Sasha RoizKaller
Recommandations
- 83
Entertainment Weekly
A helluva lot happens in 16 Blocks - an outrageous amount, really, along with a coda that deposits the audience squarely at a movieland finale. Who knew that looking both ways before crossing is where the real action is? - 80
L.A. Weekly
This is some of the best filmmaking ever done by director Richard Donner, a longtime Hollywood journeyman known more for his proficient deployment of three long-running movie franchises (The Omen, Superman and Lethal Weapon) than for his lyricism. - 80
The New York Times
Mr. Willis has always been an acquired taste, but for those who did acquire that taste, riding shotgun on his good times and bad, it's a pleasure to see him doing what comes naturally. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
Mos Def makes it work. It's a truly daring piece of acting because it skirts racial stereotyping and is so out of key with everything else in the movie. But that's just why it is so good. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Although much of the plot defies credulity, Richard Donner directs the odd-couple action drama with a nimble facility that draws viewers in. - 70
Variety
Not that it ever rises to the level of Sidney Lumet's Gotham police pics ("Serpico," "Prince of the City"), but 16 Blocks does raise the banner for the tradition of the textured urban cop drama, spurred by action but made substantial by characters at crossroads. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
A happier surprise is the smart work of director Richard Donner: 16 Blocks is all jumble and jangle--crowds, snarled traffic, and discordant car horns. The scariest moments have no music. - 50
ReelViews
It's a cobbled together mess of clichés that fails to surprise at any of its turns.
