Detective Knight: Redemption is the follow up to another Edward Drake film, that was released earlier this year, called Detective Knight: Rogue- in which Bruce Willis plays a trigger happy cop- in a blatant attempt to capitalize off his Die Hard fame- who goes rogue, and ends up in jail.
This film picks up from that point, and, whereas the previous film took place on Halloween...this installation takes place around Christmas.
With the arch villain being a former vet, turned serial bank robber- and murderer- known as "The Christmas Bomber".
This character is clearly based on the Unabomber, in the sense that you tend to agree with the main tenets of his logic, but disagree with the nature of the actions he takes.
After breaking his legion of Santa masked followers out of prison...he plans to rob a "secret bank" that tailors to the 1%.
Forcing those that don't agree with him, to go along with his plans...by means of threatening their families.
Think, like Negan in the Walking Dead, before his change of heart.
But the acting is bad; the writing is worse; and the plot is so horribly developed, that it's hard to feel engaged by the story at all.
Making it one of the most horrible heist films I've ever wasted my time watching.
It honestly makes me feel bad for Bruce Willis.
Is this what his career has come to? Or was this just a simple cash grab...for a half assed performance in a film he knew full well would be a bad from the start?
Because he's either lost his touch, or wasn't even trying.
I'm leaning towards the latter.
Steer well clear of the entire Detective Knight series (a third film is already slated for release in 2023).
It's just not worth the time.
1 out of 10.
This film picks up from that point, and, whereas the previous film took place on Halloween...this installation takes place around Christmas.
With the arch villain being a former vet, turned serial bank robber- and murderer- known as "The Christmas Bomber".
This character is clearly based on the Unabomber, in the sense that you tend to agree with the main tenets of his logic, but disagree with the nature of the actions he takes.
After breaking his legion of Santa masked followers out of prison...he plans to rob a "secret bank" that tailors to the 1%.
Forcing those that don't agree with him, to go along with his plans...by means of threatening their families.
Think, like Negan in the Walking Dead, before his change of heart.
But the acting is bad; the writing is worse; and the plot is so horribly developed, that it's hard to feel engaged by the story at all.
Making it one of the most horrible heist films I've ever wasted my time watching.
It honestly makes me feel bad for Bruce Willis.
Is this what his career has come to? Or was this just a simple cash grab...for a half assed performance in a film he knew full well would be a bad from the start?
Because he's either lost his touch, or wasn't even trying.
I'm leaning towards the latter.
Steer well clear of the entire Detective Knight series (a third film is already slated for release in 2023).
It's just not worth the time.
1 out of 10.