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Capping Off Bruce Willis’s Action Career with Satisfying ‘Independence’ (Movie Review)
Detective Knight: Independence
Rating: 9/10
Director: Edward John Drake
Writer: Edward John Drake
Style: Action/Crime Thriller
Time: 90 minutes
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt-hyQE-sIA
Rated: R
Review by Mike Szymanski
This crime thriller trilogy of the Detective Knight series is a fitting finale to Bruce Willis’s action movie career.
Of course, everyone hopes and expects Willis to conquer his aphasia, which is a language disorder that affects a person’s ability to speak, listen, read and write. And maybe, he will come back to the movie world, but at 67 years old, Willis’s action days are certainly numbered, and he announced after finishing this trilogy of films that he would retire. (Of course, don’t tell that to his 76-year-old buddy Sylvester Stallone.)
This Detective Knight series which I was lucky enough to review, starts off with “Detective Knight: Rogue” which takes place during Halloween, then “Detective Knight: Redemption” which occurs around Christmastime, and the last of the trilogy is “Detective Knight: Independence” which takes place around the Fourth of July. So, it’s kind of a seasonal trilogy.
According to director and Willis’s longtime friend Edward Drake, the final part of the trilogy was going to take place over Valentine’s Day, but the marketing department at Lionsgate suggested the fireworks holiday.
And so, the three seasons of Willis’s final films are encapsulated in this crime series, and it portrays a fitting end to an explosive career. Arguably, of course, Willis already made his Christmas action film with “Die Hard,” which also takes place during the end of the year holidays, but these are just as exciting, and will all be available to watch on demand very soon.
The first two of the trilogy pit Detective Knight (Willis) up against a series of gangsters…
