Retracing the tracks of Simon
I had no idea this movie was based on a book titled ‘Simple Simon’, not that it makes any difference in this review, it does however sound like an interesting read. The film opens with a hostage situation at a bank, Bruce Willis is dressed as one of the bad guys. Willis is an undercover agent, one of the best, he’s seen talking to a young boy – probably in his teens – persuading him to drop this charade and surrender. It’s a family run robbery and two young boys get killed before Willis had the chance to clear the area. A burning memory of the boy dying haunts him. Forgettable in my opinion, the movie has yet to begin.
Next chapter and the bell tolls, you see woman approaching The Chicago Neuropyschiatric Learning Centre wearing a badge, not a police badge something else. She holds in her hand a copy of ‘World Of Puzzles’ and looks for Simon, after giving it to him she asks that he join the other children. It is ambiguous as to whether she knew of his talent, ambiguous is good.
We now slowly uncover the plot and motive. Agencies and unheard of agencies are after the same boy. Willis protects him with all his will not knowing how valuable the autistic boy is. No they do not form a special bond while escaping bullets, Willis does however take very good care of him courtesy of John McClane (‘Die Hard’) and the bad guys lose. Alec Baldwin plays a very convincing bad boss man giving out orders but never doing it himself. Lost most big boss men, they fall to their deaths from buildings while Willis watches on with a grin on his face [if they ever attempted a remake of Watchmen, Bruce would make a great Comedian].
Bullshit aside, this is a very entertaining movie with actor Bruce Willis does what he does best and that’s kicking ass with his brains.
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