Storyline
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
Robert Clohessy, Bruce Willis, David Morse, Sasha Roiz, Peter McRobbie, Yasiin Bey, Richard Fitzpatrick, Jenna Stern, David Zayas, Casey Sander, Cylk Cozart, Robert Racki, Patrick Garrow, Conrad Pla, Hechter Ubarry, Michael F. Keenan, Tig Fong, David Sparrow, Beatriz Yuste, Danny Lima, Angela Seto, Rob Wiethoff, Paul Tuerpe, Sam Moses, Allison Lee Ritter, Talia Russo
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Reviews
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
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
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.
