Gasoline Alley

Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with aphasia. It's a disorder that affects your speech. So it's not just because he's old or just phoning it in. It's sad how many people are so cruel and judgmental before considering their words first. He's made some incredible films and not so long ago. Red, for instance. He was great in that one. And obviously the man is a legend for Die Hard, alone. Let's give him his props. This movie isn't his fault. I mean, he was hardly in it anyway. I was actually excited to see Devon Sawa. I'm glad I'm seeing him more these days. I hope he gets some more and better projects in the future. He's a good actor. Better than Luke Wilson,, just my opinion. This film could have been better. So that's always a disappointment. But keep in mind, it has a great audience score. You might enjoy it. I'm definitely not mad I watched and it certainly wasn't a waste of time.

Now that the "truth" has been revealed regarding Mr. Willis and his condition, according to most reporting he had no idea where he was or why he was in the films that he was in after 2020, giving lines fed to him like a parrot through a mic and not understanding what he was saying or why he was.

In other words, Bruce is "in" this film but he has no idea he was. And the producers and other actors plainly could see what was happening for themselves, they just mostly said nothing.

It's a sad end to a brilliant career, and screams "exploitation" to me. Bruce deserves better.

When you see a Bruce Willis starring role and an Edward Drake direction, expect direct to video junk where script is clearly secondary and Willis is getting paid to rent out his name. Drake's films are basically name actors with faded careers that feature 'stars' for a few minutes to gather interest, which includes Luke Wilson who must be really desperate these days. Neither is in the film for more than a couple of minutes nor do they seem to be interested much in this loser.

This is a vehicle for Sawa to play the role of the gruff ex-con who is being framed for a murder he didn't commit. Willis & Wilson are two cops who happen to find a business card and lighter that has Sawa's tattoo shop - Gasoline Alley - monogrammed on it. Without much more than being seein with one of the murder victims, the cop duo with Wilson doing most of the half hearted talking, insist Sawa is the prime suspect and rouse him a little. Sawa then talks and walks his way through a color by numbers script that is laughably done until its conclusion. The problem is that Sawa's character "Jimmy Jane" is put in a situation which really isn't at all that desperate and is clearly the excuse to act like his own tough, private eye.

How stupid and by the numbers is this? A car pulls next to Sawa's at the beginning and somehow, just 6-8 feet away, the shooter misses Sawa smoking in his car. Begin car chase. Sawa's 'investigation' gets to a weird private party where he somehow talks his way in simply by saying he's inviting and that he is a cop, but left his badge "in the car." And then come the friendly confessions by people who just tell him stuff because he's badass cool. In fact, he even asks them "why are you telling me this?" and no good answers come forth.

Oddly enough Sawa actually plays his role pretty well. Wilson is mostly checked out and plays himself, speaks the lines as if he's never read the whole script because knowing the character and story isn't important - only his name is as one of the stars. Willis is totally checked out and is reduced to very short sentences and single words when he speaks, sounding like he's reading off cue cards that he's seen for the first time. The other supporting actors have mostly individual scene parts and range from good but unnecessary to the truly weak.

The conslusion is predictable. Some ofthe vale deserve a higher rating but the film itself i so pitiful that I have a difficult time recommending this latest Drake snoozefest.

Who in the Galaxy does not like Bruce Willis and Luke Wilson for all the have done for us, especially Bruce Willis?

But their charisma and starry popularity does not save "Gasoline Alley" from being nothing else than a cheap B Flick with nothing to admire.

It lacks every factor that makes movie good.

That's why i could watch only 38 minutes and that was it. Could not get bored any further.

Unless you have nothing (really nothing) else to do with your time, watch it Otherwise try anything else as Gasoline Alley is probable one of the worst films of the year, which could not get not even a rate of 5/10. Really.

Nevertheless, I still love Bruce and Luke. Because, truly, they did their job, did their lines. Its just that everything else was just so mediocre, so predictable, so flat... SO BORING!

Really. Don't bother.

Yeah, what everyone says about Bruce Willis is true. He's barely in it and he just mumbles answers to Luke Wilson basically. Serves no purpose other than to say Bruce Willis was in this. The last few years this is the type of movie he does. Low budget, bad script that he's in only for a couple days work and a big pay day. What a terrible way to end a once great career.

But make no mistake, Luke Wilson was only in this for a pay day as well. He's incredibly one-dimensional and boring. Just gets tiresome watching him be the bad cop and spew the annoying lines he's given here.

But then you're left with the lead actor, who can't carry a movie. I don't know him, I didn't like him and I don't care what happens to him. He's trying to solve the crime he's being accused of but it's a hard watch. It's a seriously boring and cliched script. You wonder where they got the money for Wilson and Willis to be in this?

How does this get made. I made it 45 minutes in and had to stop, I was so bored. But 45 minutes in this travesty should get me some sort of award.