A bad movie

I wasn’t expecting much from the damned thing but, since it was starring Bruce Willis, I thought I might as well check it out anyway. To be honest, I wonder why I actually keep watching the cheap movies Willis was making at the end of this career (and I still have 25 of those to watch…). I guess that’s what happens when you are seriously obsessive about your movie watching. Anyway, even though the title was seriously derivative, for some reasons, I thought it sounded more intriguing than his usual B action flicks. Of course, I was wrong. First of all, even though all these movies look really cheap, this one probably did cost close to nothing (except, of course, Bruce Willis’s paycheck). Indeed, it seems that they found some abandoned hospital in Puerto Rico, they then added only 5 characters which was really low even for this genre, and it was basically the whole thing for slightly less than 90 mins. In fact, I do have a weak spot for minimalist features but this movie actually displayed why it’s not that easy to deliver something satisfying when you are dealing with such minimalistic proportions. To make it work, you need either some strong characters or some strong actors or some strong story (a combination of these 3 elements is of course the best option). This movie was however abysmal in all 3 departments. Concerning Bruce Willis, he actually had more screentime than usual and it was actually not a total rip-off to show him on the promotional material this time around. However, he still managed to shoot somehow all his scenes in just 2 days which shows how much invested he was in this garbage. It still difficult to  judge his work here since the poor guy was probably already dealing with aphasia so he probably had higher concerns than delivering a solid performance. Anyway, to conclude, the damned thing was really lame and you should probably avoid it. 

4/10