1/4  55%
Action: 2/3 + Comedy: 0.5/2 + Good vs Evil: 1/1 + Love/Sex: 0/1 + Special Effects: 0.5/1 + Plot: 0.5/1 + Music: 1/1 = 5.5/10 or 55%.

Boring and forgettable yawner that finds Mos Def summoning Marlan Wayans as a character. He's a little ... (read full)

3/4  16 Blocks Quick Review
Although a predictable plot, I still liked Willis and though it was engaging.

3.5/4  16 Blocks Quick Review
This is an awesome film. Bruce Wills, Does Excellent. HE is great, as a cop. I highly recommend this film.

2.5/4  16 Blocks Quick Review
A steady action/drama that is pretty good, though the pace is somewhat lacking. Bruce Willis plays the character he's best at, while Mos Def, once you get used to his voice, is surprisingly likable as the witness.

3/4  16 Blocks Quick Review
A good action film that is somewhat predictable but still a fun movie to watch. Bruce Willis' is role is very similar to that of Sin City.

5/5 ONE TENDS TO FORGET THAT WILLIS CAN ACT
  by drkhimxz (Freehold, NJ, USA)
With not much effort one can add footnotes to the script showing the most recent sources for a good deal of the action. That would be of interest to film historians, but for most of us, it is enough to know that Bruce Willis is not only given the opportunity to please us and build box office with some good action sequences, but , also, is given a chance to show us that he is, indeed, an actor of some quality when given the opportunity (or, insisting on the opportunity, I should think, given his box office clout). Mos Def and David Morse very ably play his garrulous prisoner and ex-partner. Not much else need be said in the light of the attention reviewer have paid to the film in the years since it was issued on DVD. I should think that fans of Willis and the other actor-actioneers will be much pleased by this offering.

3/5 A little long, but good
  by Brian Smith (Norcross, GA)
This is a good story, but it's about a half hour longer than it needed to be. Bruce, David and Mos Def played their roles well.

5/5 very great buy
  by Theresa L. Wise (Williamsport,PA)
This was a very good buy and it got here in good time would buy from this buyer again for sure

4/5 A Better Bruce Willis
  by Up The Stairs (Seattle, WA)
16 Blocks could possibly be Bruce Willis' best movie. It's certainly his best effort at character acting, at least until the last few scenes. He plays an aging, alcoholic, off the books cop whose job is to take a witness to the court house to testify against cops. Mos Def plays the witness, and he's actually very, very good. Bruce Willis does very well at playing a drunken cop. Maybe he's had some practice?

The movie picks up steam when Willis has to shoot an assassin who is about to off his witness. From there, it's a roller coaster ride that is fairly believable, and definitely fun, until about the last ten minutes, then things take a slide. But what the hey, it's a fun movie. In fact, it's the best Bruce Willis I've seen since the original Die Hard. Another surprise is David Morse, who plays Willis' ex-partner. Morse's character is a corrupt cop who is in on a murder and is trying to stop Mos Def from testifying against him and Bruce Willis, as well as some other cops.

On one hand, 16 Blocks is just another movie about corrupt NYC cops, on the other hand it is a reasonably good character study about a drunken cop who can realize the merits of justice when he sees it, even if he is plastered.

3/5 C+ movie at best
  by Marcellas Jackson
Not the best Bruce Willis film but a solid movie to say the least although I wish Mos Def's character didn't have to talk so much. All in All I would say its a rental at best.