16 Blocks
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| Directed by | Richard Donner |
| Written by | Richard Wenk |
| Starring | Bruce Willis Mos Def David Morse |
| Music by | Klaus Badelt |
| Cinematography | Glen MacPherson |
| Editing by | Steven Mirkovich |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. 20th Century Fox (Brazil) |
| Release date(s) | March 3, 2006 |
| Running time | 90 min. |
| Language | English |
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16 Blocks is a 2006 film directed by Richard Donner and released by Warner Bros. which opened March 3, 2006, in the United States. The main characters are played by Bruce Willis, Mos Def, and David Morse. The film is shot in the "real time" narration method. The MPAA has rated the film PG-13 for "violence, intense sequences of action, and some strong language."
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The movie begins with Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis) sitting in a bus, where he is recording a message to "Diane" (who we later find out to be his sister), and he says he wants her to know what really happened here, despite what the police might claim happened.
In a new scene, police break into an apartment building in New York City, where they find two Latino gang bangers shot and killed. They have to clear the scene and wait for the coroner to arrive. The Sergeant orders his men to call in someone they "don't need" to keep an eye on the scene. They bring up Jack who appears to be a cop that seemed at the end of his career. He goes into the apartment and against protocol, he touches everything in the room and searches for alcohol. He seems depressed and out of it and drinking on the job is definitely not helping.
Jack arrives at his office, and it seems that he has worked overtime and hasn't gotten any sleep yet. He limps a little, showing how his career as a top detective ended the day he could no longer walk right. As he heads out of the office, his Lieutenant comes in and hands him a very simple case file that was usually done by small cops. He asks Mosley to escort a witness to the courthouse that is 16 blocks away from the station to testify in front of a grand jury. (He has 118 minutes to do so). Jack refuses, but is forced to take it, so he complies.
The witness is Eddie Bunker (Mos Def), skinny-talk-all-day American that is chatting away when Jack comes in to escort him out. In the car, while handcuffed, Eddie keeps on talking; and it's getting on Jack's nerves. There is a lot of traffic, so Jack figures he has time, and he stops to get a drink at a liquor store, ignoring Eddie's request to keep going. As Jack is buying alcohol, a man dressed in a cleaning service uniform approaches the car and takes out his gun to aim at Eddie, but he is shot dead as Jack came out of the store. Chaos follows after the gunshot, and it seems Jack was frozen by it, so frozen that he doesn't even realize he was getting shot at by a second gunman. More gunshots are exchanged, and Jack jumps into the car and reverses it into the gunman and manages to escape.
Jack takes Eddie into a bar that he seems really familiar with and asks the owner to kick everybody out of the bar including the owner. Jack calls the station for some backups to aid him, but instead, his ex-partner, homicide detective Frank Nugent (David Morse) and his crew come into the bar. He says he heard the phone call and he was around the corner, so he stopped by to help. Frank says he will take it from here. Jack is about to comply; but this time, Eddie is still talking, he hasn't stopped talking ever since they got shot at. He keeps whining about why would Jack risk his life and stop for a drink and all that. Anyway, he keeps talking, until another detective comes into the bar, and Eddie shuts up immediately as if he recognizes the guy. And Jack realizes that something is fishy.
Frank goes on and explains to Jack that Eddie is about to testify against a lot of (dirty) cops including a chief in the courtroom. He is going to ruin a lot of good cops' lives by telling what he saw. Frank takes Jack's gun away, and hands it to his guys. The guys wiped the gun clean, and place it on Eddie's hand. Then they fire a shot with Eddie holding the gun, making it seems like he snatched the gun and tried to kill the cops. Eddie is held up and is about to get executed right there in the bar. Jack takes the bar owner's double-barrel shotgun and shoots the cops in the legs. He takes Eddie and goes out the back door. Frank now is really angry, still maintaining his poise, and calls in more backups to find both Ja