Trauma Center

From script to acting to directing, hard to choose what was worse.

In a future where Puerto Rico became the 51st state and everybody speaks English, a woman with a bullet in her leg due to doctor negligence must survive with the help of a drunk detective (Bruce Willis) against a guy who really hates doors and some other pathological liar.

Madison Taylor (Nicky Whelan) is a waitress in Puerto Rico. She takes care of her younger sister by herself. She gets shot by two killers. She is brought to the hospital and police Det. Wakes (Bruce Willis) puts her in isolation for her protection. The killers arrive to retrieve the bullet which could be tracked back to them.

The premise is simple enough. The acting is nothing to write home about. Willis barely cares nowadays. This movie never had a hope with so many little flaws. It starts with the bullet in her leg. That's not the only bullet out there and the bad guys don't spend enough time at the scene to be sure that all their bullets shattered. Quite frankly, it's a silly flaw that could be solved by announcing that they have to kill a witness. Locking her in isolation leaves the issue of the medicine. She would need doctors and nurses but nobody is allowed to see her. There is no monitoring of her. There's nobody on the floor other than one policeman. She pulls the fire alarm but it's a weird fire alarm which doesn't alert anybody outside the floor. What kind of scrub area would be bulletproof? They don't need to do that. Even if they shot out the window, they can't reach the inside handle. She can still shock them. The fact is that these flaws keep happening and they could all be solved. I don't know why the elevator only goes down one level. I don't know why that janitor screams like a little girl who has seen a ghost. I don't know why Madison doesn't talk to that nurse in the morgue. I don't know why security isn't crawling all over the hospital. The bad guy who dropped the chip has no way of knowing that Madison has it. A lot of this movie doesn't make sense if one digs too deeply. It makes no sense that Madison wouldn't shot once to make sure the bad guy is dead. The final confrontation looks stupid with the bad guy taunting Madison. The list goes on and all the little flaws add up.

WHAT happened to Bruce Willis and his acting?! This was a disaster from start to finish.

For being set in Puerto Rico, they have an astonishing lack of Puerto Ricans. In fact, I counted ZERO Puerto Rican's. Bruce Willis is terrible. Steve Gutenberg is creepy as a doctor and I'm pretty sure he forgot he was filming a movie and started to hit on the lead actress. For having a detective shot down in cold blood, they apparently didn't have much respect for him in the force because only Bruce Willis showed up to check on the officer and I guess that's because it was his partner. For the only witness to a murder of a cop, they put one nerdy, fresh out of the academy cop to guard her. Apparently, no one gets sick in Puerto Rico either, because the hospital is empty, sans for one case of an asthma attack that requires a 3 night stay in the hospital. Oh, and for the actress who was the witness and was shot as well? They told her they couldn't take the bullet out of her leg that's "an inch below the skin" for several days because the surgeons were off-duty! I kid you not! Good thing she wasn't shot in the head. Maybe that's why the detective didn't make it? I'm pretty sure Bruce Willis filmed in between happy hours. Where are all the nurses that wake people up every 15 minutes like in real hospitals?