Better Late Then Never

Absolutely Fantastic

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Striking Distance (1993) is underrated Bruce Willis action film from the 90's with Director Rowdy Herrington (Road House) who wrote the screenplay for the film with producer Marty Kaplan. After the success of Die Hard (1988), Die Hard 2 (1990) and The Last Boy Scout (1991) Bruce Willis made another action film in which he plays another cop from Pittsburgh Tom Hardy. This is my favorite Bruce Willis action film alongside with Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Die Hard With A Vengeance, Live Free or Die Hard, The Last Boys Scout and Sin City. I can't believe that this movie has such a bad reputation. I love this movie I love it. I don't know what's wrong? It is a damn solid action mystery flick and that a good one. Bruce Willis does a solid job and so does Sarah Jessica Parker as Tom Hardy's partner. It is a rated Hard-R action film with action scenes and a good gun shutouts. I wish that Bruce Willis would make such a good movies today but he doesn't he is a washed up actor now."Who's the best cop now?" Plot: A serial killer is back in Pittsburgh to torment the former homicide detective who was on his trail years before. Tom Hardy, who has been relegated to water-way duty, along with new partner Jo Christman, navigate the three rivers looking for clues and discovering bodies. This time the victims are women Tom knows, he must find the killer to prove his innocence.This time Bruce Willis is a homicide detective to solve a case of a serial murders. A serial killer strangler is on the loose called Polish Hill, he murders women and the cops has no clue who's doing it. After the car chase with his dad Capt. Vincent Hardy (John Mahoney) and an accident leave's Tom's dad dead and his partner Jimmy Detillo (Robert Pastorelli) jumps off the bridge in the river, Tommy (Bruce Willis) loses everything including his job. Two years later Tommy is now a river duty cop but his still believes the killer was a another cop but no one believes him. The killer Polish Hill returns, he taunts Tom taunts by killing his ex-girlfriends one by one and dumping them in the river. Now it is up to Tom to solve the mystery.What's wrong? This movie has a good action scenes: you have a car chases, boat chases, action scene on the boat. Hardy prevent's an armed robbery on the boat and he saves a hostages. Tom Hardy fights the strangler Jimmy in the river and he tasering him in the mouth with a stun gun and we have a mystery about the identity of a serial killer. We have a good dialogues Who's the best cop now?" Good acting from actors Tom Sizemore, Robert Pastorelli and Dennis Farina who are no longer with us anymore RIP you will be both missed.Here we have a great music score from Brad Fiedel who made music scores also for The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Let's Get Harry, Fright Night 1,2 , The Serpent and the Rainbow, Blue Steel, True Lies, and Johnny Mnemonic.The movie is directed by Rowdy Herrington who also directed my favorite Patrick Swayze film Road House (1989). This is my second favorite film of his. I have this movie on Blu-ray disc and it was a long time since I have seen this movie. But no one talk's today about this movie no one even mention's it anymore it is a really shame and I don't know why.I have enjoyed Bruce Willis and I have enjoyed Sarah Jessica Parker it was a solid good fun mystery action film and I don't know why the lower rating for it or why people are bashing it.I love this movie it is my favorite Bruce Willis movie I wish they would make movies like this are today I really do wish. The rating I give to this film is 8/10. Anything under 7 would be ridiculous, as anyone claiming this isn't at least a GOOD action film (it is sure as hell better than all the movies Bruce Willis is doing today including A Good Day to Die Hard that movie was a peace sh**t film!) I recommend to all action and Bruce Willis fans.Striking Distance is a 1993 American action thriller film starring Bruce Willis as Pittsburgh Police homicide detective Thomas Hardy. The film co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, and Tom Sizemore. It was directed by Rowdy Herrington and written by Herrington and Marty Kaplan. The film was shot on location throughout Pittsburgh; its early title was Three Rivers.8/10 Grade: B+ Studio: Columbia Pictures Starring: Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, Tom Sizemore, Brion James, Robert Pastorelli, Tom Atkins Director: Rowdy Herrington Producers: Marty Kaplan, Arnon Milchan Screenplay: Rowdy Herrington, Marty Kaplan Rated: R Running Time: 1 Hr. 42 Mins. Budget: $30.000.000 Box Office: $24,107,867

Striking Distance (1993): Dir: Rowdy Herrington / Cast: Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tom Sizemore, Robert Pastorelli, Dennis Farina: Cliché filled mess that misses its mark. Bruce Willis stars as a homicide detective whose father was murdered by a serial killer. An innocent victim faces death row and Willis suspects a cop. This decreases his popularity amongst the other officers and leads to a demotion to a river rescue squad with Sarah Jessica Parker. Suddenly women he knows are found in the river and he suspects that it could be linked to his father's murder. Plot is as dead as the victims with a climax wallowing in its violent muck. Director Rowdy Herrington handles the plot twists as well as high powered action sequences but the screenplay provides nothing that hasn't been done countless times. Willis survives the dread as he accepts his demotion as a trespass to further clues involving his past. Sarah Jessica Parker only exists as a possible love interest. Not to sound sexist but generally the females in these films are there more or less for physical encounters with the hero. Parker is far above this material but is wasted in a role that is presented pretty much so to put a female in the film. She lucked out and got cast in this junk. Tom Sizemore and Robert Pastorelli surrender to useless stereotypes. A pointless noise that misses its mark by a long shot. Score: 2 / 10

Striking Distance is carved from the same block as countless other 90's cop vs. killer thrillers that the industry churned out. Some turn out excellent (Jennifer 8, Silence Of The Lambs) and some flail (The Watcher). This one falls squarely in the fun category, nothing too groundbreaking, but a solid dose of entertaining big city crime pulp. Bruce Willis plays Detective Tom Hardy (lol), whose pursuit of a vicious killer in the excellent prologue leads to the murderer's escape, and Hardy's disgrace. Is prompts Willis to steer his performance into grumpy hangdog territory, which he does oh so well. He's stripped of his stripes, and sent out on harbour patrol with rookie Jo Christman (Sarah Jessica Parker). Stuck with busting rich kids drinking on their parents speedboats, Hardy itches with the urge to still nail the killer. Dennis Farina plays the police chief solidly. Tom Sizemore is his dodgy detective son, a prime suspect, and Robert Pastorelli his other screw up kid. Veteran John Mahoney makes a brief appearance as Hardy's father, as well as nice work from Andre Braugher and Tom Atkins. It's no classic, but it's hard boiled 90's fun, with a cool Willis character and a nice urban vibe of scuzzy, behind dark doors violence, with a nice central whodunit aesthetic.

We could literally call this excellent thriller ALL IN THE FAMILY as it deals with a family of police caught up in a series of serial killings that eventually takes the life of the father of Bruce Willis. Scorned by police when he turns his own cousin in on an unrelated police matter, and his persistence that the man found guilty of the crime is innocent and that the real killer is none other than a police officer.The plot twists are great and there is plenty of action. Bruce Willis has the perfect part for himself and he is aided by Sarah Jessica Palmer, who has another assigned agenda on her part.