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Review: HARD KILL, Aging Action Heroes Die Hard

With the proliferation of streaming services, a new kind of action movie has risen to prominence; the low budget thriller featuring an aging A-list action star. From Mel Gibson to Russell Crowe, former box office titans found a second life as the marquee stars of DTV or direct to streaming actioners made on the cheap; though few have been as prolific as Bruce Willis. With over a dozen credits within the past decade, Willis is quickly becoming the king of this particular sub-genre. Hard Kill is his second offering of the year and his third with director Matt Eskandari. But with this many recent credits under his belt, one has to wonder; is Willis honing his craft or diluting his brand? Ultimately, it all comes down to the quality of the film itself. Hard Kill is as potboiler as potboiler gets. Willis plays an ex-military turned industrialist named Chalmers (leave […]

Killing Time With HARD KILL Director Matt Eskandari

James Couche

Aging A-list stars showing up in low budget actioners is quickly becoming a genre unto itself. From Mel Gibson, to Russel Crowe, to Bruce Willis, these box office titans of yesteryear are finding a robust second life in the DTV and direct to streaming space. I had the pleasure of speaking with Matt Eskandari about his most recent directorial effort, Hard Kill with Bruce Willis and Jesse Metcalfe. He gave great insight into the unique challenges of making these types of films as well as the artistic opportunities the genre can provide. It’s been a crazy year for film, especially with the pandemic turning the entire industry upside down. Exactly. I’ve already had one film released during the pandemic, so to have a second one come out is really interesting. We’re not competing with any big budget Marvel movies, and people are in real need of things to watch. There’s […]

HARD KILL: Jesse Metcalfe And Bruce Willis Battle Kidnappers And Terrorists In The Official U.S. Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Bruce Willis is still stacking up the action movie pile well into the summer, and his latest, Hard Kill, comes from director Matt Eskandari, from a script by Joe Russo and Chris Lamont. When billionaire tech CEO Donovan Chalmers (Bruce Willis) hires a team of mercenaries to protect a lethal piece of technology, security expert and team leader Derek Miller (Jesse Metcalfe) finds himself in a deadly showdown with an old enemy. The mission becomes even higher risk when Chalmers’ daughter is kidnapped by a terrorist group who will stop at nothing to obtain the tech. Miller and his team must race against the clock to save her and protect the fate of the human race before it’s too late. Collider first broke the story, and we now have an official trailer and poster making the rounds. Vertical Entertainment will release Hard Kill in theaters and on VOD beginning August […]