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Detective Knight: Independence

  • 2023
  • R
  • 1h 31m
IMDb RATING
3.4/10
1.9K
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Bruce Willis, Willow Shields, Edward Drake, and Jack Kilmer in Detective Knight: Independence (2023)
Detective James Knight 's last-minute assignment to the Independence Day shift turns into a race to stop an unbalanced ambulance EMT from imperiling the city's festivities. The misguided vigilante, playing cop with a stolen gun and uniform, has a bank vault full of reasons to put on his own fireworks show... one that will strike dangerously close to Knight's home.
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Detective James Knight's last-minute assignment to the Independence Day shift turns into a race against time to stop an unbalanced EMT worker who's posing as a cop.Detective James Knight's last-minute assignment to the Independence Day shift turns into a race against time to stop an unbalanced EMT worker who's posing as a cop.Detective James Knight's last-minute assignment to the Independence Day shift turns into a race against time to stop an unbalanced EMT worker who's posing as a cop.

  • Director
    • Edward Drake
  • Writers
    • Edward Drake
    • Corey Large
  • Stars
    • Bruce Willis
    • Jack Kilmer
    • Willow Shields
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.4/10
    1.9K
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    • Director
      • Edward Drake
    • Writers
      • Edward Drake
      • Corey Large
    • Stars
      • Bruce Willis
      • Jack Kilmer
      • Willow Shields
    • 17User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Bruce Willis
    Bruce Willis
    • James Knight
    Jack Kilmer
    Jack Kilmer
    • Dezi
    Willow Shields
    Willow Shields
    • Ally
    Lochlyn Munro
    Lochlyn Munro
    • Fitzgerald
    Michael Sparks
    • Nico
    Mark Hewlett
    • Kirill
    Timothy V. Murphy
    Timothy V. Murphy
    • Vincent
    Jimmy Jean-Louis
    Jimmy Jean-Louis
    • Godwin
    Bernie Gewissler
    • Bandit #2
    Dax Spanogle
    • Quinn
    • (as Dax Spangole)
    Lorenzo Antonucci
    Lorenzo Antonucci
    • George
    Scott Cargle
    Scott Cargle
    • Sean Beston
    Francis Cronin
    Francis Cronin
    • Peter O'Malley
    Justin Snowball
    Justin Snowball
    • Brandt Bishop
    Dullah Allen
    Dullah Allen
    • Jake Bishop
    Casey Graf
    Casey Graf
    • Neil Hanna
    • (as a different name)
    Brayden Dalmazzone
    Brayden Dalmazzone
    • Beat Cop
    Kimberley Pember
    Kimberley Pember
    • Camilla
    • Director
      • Edward Drake
    • Writers
      • Edward Drake
      • Corey Large
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    User reviews17

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    1ec92009

    Just WTF. Don't waste a minute one this garbage.

    This has it all. Lots of blood, bad characters, poorly played, poorly filmed.

    That kid makes it all the way to be a proficient EMT, but somehow gets influenced to bad judgement calls at the scene of a shooting, ignoring his own ethical duty, but also hurting a victim in order to "save" him.

    When confronted for his acts, his unethical behavior is not even brought up, but the fact that the patient is suing the city finally gets him fired and makes him snap. No union rep, no chance to defend himself, but somehow he keeps his badge and his gun.

    The rest is horrific and completely predictable.

    If you're watching this movie because Bruce Willis is in it, you have to be sorry for your time, and his fall. WTF???
    1shay-67903

    Movie so bad they forget to audio sync some parts of it

    I mean i honestly dont know where to start

    That its one of the worst if not the worst acting of bruce willis in hies career ?

    That is has the worst cgi effects ive seen in years ?

    That in some audio not synced or they later recorded other audio in it or whatever they did ?

    I mean some guns dont even make sound when they fire...

    Or in the story that makes 0 since and the absurdity of it ?

    I mean its almost as if they made a movie as a parody for action movies but then took it seriusly

    i dont like to give movies 1/10 but i mean... this is a 1/10.

    How bruce willis has fallen... hopefully he can raise back up in hies next project.
    2LeoJFraser

    Feel sorry for Willis!

    Watched all 3 movies and that's time we won't ever get back. Poorly written, lack of substance and very bad editing!

    Willis in all 3 movies had about two pages worth of dialogue which is no doubt due to his illness. The whole trilogy could have done without its main character as really he had no real impact on anything that happened. I will be avoiding Drakes future work if this is the standard he delivers.

    The speech syncing leaves a lot to be desired and if I were a film studio I wouldn't he hiring these sound guys again.

    It's a shame that Willis is ending a career with these three movies as some of his last.
    3sahlgoode

    Not the way to end a caeer

    For an actor that announced his retirement (for health reasons) Bruce Willis was in eleven movies released in 2022. Face it. Over the years we've all enjoyed watching Bruce chew up the scenery. Unfortunately not all of the releases for the year were stellar performances. This one being the 3rd, and final installment of the Detective Knight trilogy.was not what I would call the highlight of the three. Starting from the chase scene coming out of the bank, this movie became a giant turd. The dialogue was voiced off camera from the 1:09 mark almost to the very end. What was voiced on camera was out of sync. I can't help but think that they rushed the release for some reason. Surely they could have cleaned it up in post if they had taken more time.

    It's sad to think they rushed the release just for the money. I had enjoyed the first two in the series, but this one was ruined by the bad sound editing in the latter third of the film.

    Jack Kilmer gave a sparkling performance. His father would have been proud. I think he has a long career ahead of him, and I'll be looking forward to seeing more of his work. The rest of the cast carried their parts believably, which is why the ending was such a disappointment.

    I love ya Bruce, so I'm hoping when Assassin is released later this year, that it'll be something we all want to remember you by. Regardless, thanks for the decades of enjoyable performances.
    1Joseph-Molion

    No. Just no.

    Holy crap. Bruce, why did you allow yourself to go out on such a ridiculously low note?

    The story was non-existent, the acting was abysmal, from EVERYBODY, Bruce included; I just finished it, and I really don't know what they were trying to say/do here.

    I liked the first two installments of the trilogy. Didn't love them, but they were pretty solid low-end B movies.

    This thing was slapped together because someone told someone it had to be a trilogy to sell. That's my only explanation for this crap fest I just watched.

    Bruce has to pull his s**t together for one last movie, if only to erase the stain that this is going to leave on the end of his career. He's too good an actor to let this steaming pile of "WTF" be his career capper.

    Please, don't waste your time watching this. It really was so bad that 1 star is about 3/4 a star too much.

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    • Trivia
      Detective Knight: Independence serves as the last film in the Detective Knight trilogy, as well as the last movie Bruce Willis worked on before retiring from acting, due to his diagnosis with aphasia and dementia in 2022. The film was shot in November 2021, four months before Willis' retirement.
    • Goofs
      When Detective Knight jumps into the ambulance and struggles with Dezi for the gun, the camera mostly focuses on close-ups of Bruce Willis face. However, in the shot at circa 88 minutes when the gun is fired during struggle, Bruce Willis is quite obviously replaced by a stunt double who looks almost nothing like Willis. The stunt double is much younger, has different facial features, different skin complexion and thicker eyebrows, and is completely bald, whereas Willis has pattern baldness with a bit of hair remaining on the sides of head.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      James Knight: [knocking out Dezi with a right hook] Happy 4th, motherfucker!

    • Connections
      Follows Detective Knight: Rogue (2022)

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    • Release date
      • January 20, 2023 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 俠探特攻:驚爆獨立日
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA(pickup shots & background plates)
    • Production companies
      • BondIt Media Capital
      • End 2 End Productions
      • Lionsgate
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    • Budget
      • $10,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $53,342
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 31 minutes
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      • 2.39:1

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