CATCH .44 … RELEASED ON ANCHOR BAY DVD & BLU-RAY: 28.05.2012
It’s tricky to say anything new about Hollywood royalty like Bruce Willis. Suffice to say, he gives Catch 44 a real shot in the arm with his portrayal of a beyond evil gangster who sends minions out to sort out his shady business. Sat in a big white house surrounded by women, guns and drugs, he’s disconnected from humanity to such a degree that the rules are different.
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We are allowed to love him in this film, despite the obvious clues that he’s a total bastard, because hey, he’s Bruce Willis and in the kind of crazy mixed up Pulp Fiction world the characters of Catch 44 inhabit, charisma counts for everything and if there’s one thing Willis has in abundance, it’s that.
Here we see Willis in all his morning after the night before, dressing gown and underwear glory, as he interviews a potential new member of his criminal organization…
“Harvey certainly knows how to deliver unflinching violence…by the time this film gets to the end the body count is high, the blood is flowing and, as always, there is one more twist…” INDIEWIRE.COM