My Top 10: Bruce Willis Films

From his breakthrough in 1988, Bruce Willis became one of the biggest action stars of the last 30 years. Whether they are straight action flicks or within the realms of sci-fi, Willis has certainly been of the most bad-ass action heroes in modern cinema.
But the German-born American has also some ground-breaking movies within the genre's of sci-fi and horror. He even dabs his hand into voice work in a few animations.

The one I am amazed at with Willis, is how many films he has done that has a really bad rating on various movie rating sites. I'll certainly be looking forward to seeing those.

I must give an honorable mention to Over The Hedge, a film where Willis shows us his most under-used aspect, his voice acting. This is a surprisingly fun and well written animation that sees Willis voice lead character R.J. A raccoon fools a bunch of troubled forest animals into helping repay a debt of food. That leads to them invading a newly built suburban area. It leads to many amusing sequences.

Out of his 85 films, I have seen 37 of them. I will rank all of the ones that I have seen, and then give a short review for each of my top 10:

37) The Cold Light Of Day
36) The Kid
35) A Good Day To Die Hard
34) Armageddon
33) The Expendables 2
32) G.I. Joe: Retaliation
31) Lay The Favourite
30) Look Who's Talking Too
29) Look Who's Talking
28) RED 2
27) RED
26) The Last Boy Scout
25) Last Man Standing
24) 16 Blocks
23) Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
22) Planet Terror
21) Surrogates
20) Tears Of The Sun
19) The Whole Nine Yards
18) Grindhouse
17) Mercury Rising
16) Death Becomes Her
15) Die Hard 4.0
14) Die Hard 2
13) Moonrise Kingdom
12) Unbreakable

10) Lucky Number Slevin - This well executed crime drama sees a citizen being mistakenly identified as a criminal.
It sees the unlucky citizen either finding a way out or killing his captives.

Willis infamous assassin Mr. Goodkat. It also sees some big performances from Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley and Josh Hartnett.

9) Glass - Willis gives us one of his best performances in years as he returns as David Dunn.

It is a thrilling and exciting final part in M. Night Shyamalan's trilogy that continues to show us the directors unique approach to the superhero genre.

8) Looper - A cleverly structured sci-fi that sees a world where the mob send their targets back in time to be killed by Loopers.

It sees Joseph Gordon-Levitt star as a Looper, who finds his own loop is about close in the most dramatic way possible.

It was wrongly billed as this decade's Matrix. It is more like The Terminator. This is the film that also saw the breakthrough of director Rian Johnson.

7) The Fifth Element - Director Luc Besson's highly enjoyable sci-fi adventure that sees Willis play a crab driver, who gets involved in an event that will decide the fate of the planet.

With a star-studded cast behind him, Willis gives another one of this most memorable bad-ass performances.

I loved this as a kid, and still love it as much today.

6) Die Hard: With A Vengeance - The third installment in the franchise, and one that surprised me a lot.

John McClane is being targeted by a German terrorist in New York City. Willis is partnered with Samuel L. Jackson and this certainly does a great job of almost being as thrilling and exciting as the first one.

5) The Sixth Sense - One of the last great classics of the 1990's. It sees a boy who can communicate with ghosts that don't know they're dead. He seeks help from a child psychologist played by Willis.

This also saw the breakthrough of director and writer M. Night Shyamalan.

4) Die Hard - The film that made Willis a star, and it is also one of the best action films of all-time. This wonderful action thriller has everything you want in an action blockbuster. It also saw the birth of the late Alan Rickman's film career.

With its Christmas setting, it is an easy excuse to watch during the festive period.

3) Twelve Monkeys - One of the great sci-fi's of the 1990's sees director Terry Gilliam tell the story of a convict sent back in time to prevent a man-made virus from destroying the human population.

Willis plays the lead role, along with Madeleine Stowe and a brilliant Brad Pitt.

2) Sin City - Robert Rodriguez's slick-looking adaptation of the famous graphic novel sees a number of tales within the dark and miserable town of Basin City.

It's film-noir tone gives the film some uniqueness and the visuals are breath-taking. Willis plays an aging cop hunting down a rapist and serial killer.

1) Pulp Fiction - Four tales within Los Angeles inter-twine through violence and redemption.

Willis plays a boxer who double-crosses a gangster for not match-fixing his latest match.

This is seen by many as director Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece.