During the latter, Willis, as if standing in for the viewer, listens with a bored expression on his face, clearly wishing he was interacting with Alan Rickman’s Hans Gruber instead. It’s occasionally punctuated by such lame dialogue scenes as Chalmers and Eva engaging in a heartfelt father-daughter chat or The Pardoner taking the time to explain the reason for his unusual moniker. The Pardoner naturally intends the latter, explaining that he’s fighting for “a new world order.” The invention, referred to as “Project 725,” might as well be dubbed “The MacGuffin.”Ĭue the tiresome action movie gun battles and other violent mayhem, staged unimaginatively by director Eskandari despite how much practice he gets. She’s apparently developed an artificial intelligence computer program that, depending how it’s used, could either make the world a dramatically better place or destroy it. It turns out that the quixotically named criminal, with whom Miller has a past, has kidnapped Chalmers’ daughter Eva (Lala Kent). Needless to say, that turns out not to be the case, as Miller and his group are soon ambushed by a well-armed gang led by an international terrorist dubbed “The Pardoner” (Sergio Rizzutto, letting his beard do the menacing for him). Miller assembles his team, including Sasha (Natalie Eva Marie, of the WWE reality series Total Divas), Harrison (Jon Galanis) and Dash (Swen Temmel), assuring them of a generous payday for an assignment he promises will be “strictly VIP protection.” Willis plays Donovan Chalmers (at least his character’s name has some flair), a mysterious billionaire who seeks out ex-Special Forces operative turned mercenary Derek Miller ( Jesse Metcalfe, Desperate Housewives) for protection while visiting an abandoned factory. The production notes inform us that the unimaginatively titled Hard Kill was filmed in a mere ten days, making you wonder how they spent eight of them. ![]() The veteran actor, who seems to have settled on making listless appearances in forgettable B-movie action movies as a retirement funding plan, co-stars in this would-be thriller, marking his third low-budget collaboration with director Matt Eskandari (the others being Survive the Night and Trauma Center) in two years. You’d think that by now Bruce Willis would be tired of saving the world.
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