Capping Off Bruce Willis’s Action Career with Satisfying ‘Independence’ (Movie Review)

Mike Szymanski
6 min readJan 16, 2023

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

Jack Kilmer and Willow Shields star in the third part of this trilogy

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…

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Mike Szymanski

Journalist, writer, activist and bisexual, living with Multiple Sclerosis and Dachshunds in Hollywood.