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Hard Kill (2020)

Hard Kill probably doesn't deserve the dismal rating I'm giving it. I had to watch something new and it was getting late. I picked this movie based on its 98-minute running time and regretted my choice instantly.

“The Pardoner” (Sergio Rizzuto) has acquired a revolutionary artificial intelligence which will allow him to topple world governments and kill willy-nilly. Unfortunately, he needs Donovan Chalmers (Bruce Willis) to grant him access. With Chalmers’ daughter (Lala Kent) held hostage and an exchange scheduled, the world will be under The Pardoner’s control unless the group of mercenaries Chalmers has hired - Derek (Jesse Metcalfe), Sasha (Natalie Eva Marie), Dash (Swen Temmel), and Harrison (Jon Galanis) - can take the villain down.

The summary makes it sound like Bruce Willis is the film's star. He isn��t. The quartet of mercenaries are our protagonists. Unfortunately, none of them are even mildly interesting. I suppose Natalie Eva Marie fares best out of all of the performers, all of whom can handle the physical stunts (there aren’t a lot and none will impress) but have no charisma. 80% of the dialogue sounds like grunts uttered by someone trying to get inducted into the Brotherhood of Iron as we roll our eyes.

You don’t care about the heroes, their relationships or their feeble character arcs. The plot? Merely an excuse to have people shoot each other. The artificial intelligence could be swapped out with just about anything from nuclear codes to a Swiss bank account.

The villain? He keeps going on about how greed is ruining the world and how the MacGuffin will fix that. This belief naturally puts him at odds with the mercenaries (which is good writing) but you never buy his conviction. Maybe if he was a little bit more concerned with money he could’ve afforded actual ammunition - instead of the pellets of red dust we see fired in multiple shots - or someone to get the password for him so he wouldn’t have to put his own life in danger to retrieve it.

Directed by Matt Eskandari (also responsible for Survive the Night, which also featured a tired Bruce Willis), this movie is cheap. The mercs defend the fort while The Pardoner and his cronies try to get inside. Most of the action is set in some run-down building (Bruce Willis costs $1 million a day and they must’ve needed him for at least two so they needed to cut costs). Even as a siege thriller, this fails. You never get a good understanding of the place’s layout. We never feel any tension as the heroes’ resources dwindle. It’s a continuous stream of non-thrills.

This is a bad movie but lowest-rating-possible bad? I'll defend my choice. There is no passion on-screen. This movie does nothing new. Hard Kill has no reason to exist and contains nothing memorable whatsoever. The people who waste their time with it could’ve spent it watching ANYTHING else. There are so many good movies I haven't yet seen. Instead, I chose Hard Kill and feel lesser for it. (November 19, 2020)

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