Apex


 I used to love Bruce Willis. He was one of the funniest guys in Hollywood, and no one quipped more wittily than his David Addison on Moonlighting. He was fantastic in 80s movies like Look Who's Talking and even in the action thriller Die Hard. That movie shifted him into more action hero roles, but even in the actionest and heroest, he was still funny.

Something happened in the last ten or so years, and he started making terrible movies. One after another. Most straight to DVD. You wouldn't even hear about them, they'd just show up in the Redbox. 

Apex is the pinnacle of these terrible movies. (See what I did there?) This is, I'm pretty sure, THE WORST movie Bruce Willis made. Which both surprised and disappointed me because the premise is decent (Most Dangerous Game) and the other actor has been in really good stuff! Neal McDonough was the bad guy in Justified with Timothy Olyphant, and he was great. He was in Band of Brothers, and he was in Minority Report, and Yellowstone, and Captain America. So I was hoping that between them it would be watchable.

But oh man, it's terrible. The writing is awful. The acting is awful. And at the very end, Bruce Willis raises his hands in kind of a victory cheer, and it might be the saddest thing I've ever seen him do. He looks like he'd rather be shot than film that scene.

It's not quite bad enough to be so bad it's good. It's just bad. Don't watch it.

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