Out of Death 2021 hollywood movie reviews

While out hiking to scatter her father’s ashes, Shannon Mathers (King) stumbles across a drug deal gone wrong between a corrupt police officer and a junkie. As the only witness, Shannon is forced to go on the run in the wilderness. Her luck changes when she meets retired cop Jack Harris (Willis) on vacation, and the two team up to stay one step ahead of the corrupt cops hot on their trail…

A small scale action-thriller set in the woodlands of middle-America with an awfully distracting bleak, near-Sepia haze across the lens, this is an independent offering that is nothing new, nothing exciting or nothing memorable to say the least. The film would fade into obscurity were it not for the “headline” star of Bruce Willis who is sadly making a name for himself as a direct-to-DVD dud over recent years. With all of his scenes shot in one day across the nine day shooting period after the US COVID-19 lockdown, Bruce fails to give anything in his performance that could be worth a watch, even for his hardcore fans.

Willis lacks any passion or enthusiasm in the role, the script or the character. To be truthful, his creaky old character Jack Harris could be any of his recent characters. Willis pops up, growls his words, shoots his pistol and jogs around in and out of scenes. None of his dialogue conjures up the potentially intended humour, heart or emotion. The fact he works with such lazy writing doesn’t do him any justice, even when his total screentime clocks in at around 10 minutes of an 85min film.