Obviously this was created over a year before Bruce Willis made his condition public, and as such there are a few comments here that I do regret with hindsight, even if I obviously didn't know so at the time. In subsequent Willis reviews, I began to suspect that his health may have been declining, and decided to soften my tone accordingly. I apologize if any comments seem insensitive, and hope viewers won't judge as harshly as I did, sorry.
You shouldn't be too hard on yourself as nobody knew. In all fairness, he's had this reputation for not being the easiest to work with, naturally leading us to assume the worst in him. That doesn't make any of this less tragic, heartbreaking, and my condolences to his family and I hope karma on the studios for taking advantage of this situation when they likely knew about this before all of us.
To be fair to you FB a lot of people thought he'd just stopped engaging, ala Seagal and articles mentioning Willis saying he'd 'Fallen out of love with acting' only made it easier to believe. I remember seeing pieces years ago talking about Willis slowly retreating from the experimentation and variety of his peak (I mean he was in Rugrats once, he had his own Saturday morning cartoon show with a theme song he wrote and performed himself) into unchallenging bankable action roles. Then we got more recent fare like 'Gasoline Alley' where as you yourself said, he didn't look 'bored' he looked 'unwell' and gradually so many aspects of his recent output; the limited shooting schedules, the earpiece to be fed lines, the willingness to sign up to seemingly anything willing to pay him shifted from indicators of Seagal/late era Brando style laziness and more towards the implication that something was wrong with Willis and those steps were attempts to compensate so he could keep working and thus earning while he still could Having these facts made available certainly recontextualises much of Willis' recently output, but you can't be blamed for not knowing that when you made this video, since that was a good year before he made his condition public.
I do admire you for making an additional comment like this as it's more than a lot of creators would do [the Razzies-who I hate anyway-had to be shamed into removing there 'joke' while this is fair criticism of the film making and writing].
Wow. 37yrs ago Willis' first appearance was in the Miami Vice episode No Exit. The show was famous for dramatic cinema styled twist endings and ironically or prophetically the song used in his iconic final scene was the Phil Collins song I Don't Care Anymore.
I've seen some amazing fan films. Some people can do a LOT with a small budget. I guess the people who made this weren't all that creative. I'd really love to find a low-budget sci-fi movie I can root for.
Lord, Willis sounds like he's turned down the Steven Seagal path of not giving a shit, showing up for the bare minimum of time needed on set, and just cashing the check. I don't know if Bruce has any "give a damn" left in him for any project to really stir up genuine passion in him again. And yeah, you CAN'T do low budget sci-fi anymore. Cheap CGI looks like trash! I kept thinking Cosmic Sin was some UK title of the film. I didn't realize the trailer I saw for Breach was a different movie! They probably both come off as equally bad.
@La Verdad He often is dubbed by another actor in these films [and didn't do any ADR for Die Hard 5 either!] and has doubles for any scene which isn't a close up. But the rest he's innocent of!
@@countquackula8539 Because money is money and he's clearly over giving a shit acting. He's got other businesses and if someone's willing to pay you a cool million to show up for a day and give zero fucks, why not? These movies are the definition of cheap bins in Walmart.
Man, I've learned so much about big stars ending up in direct to DVD movies with you, Matthew. It's kind of sad learning that now Bruce Willis is in that "phase". Spectacular and informative video as always. It's fun to learn about movie stars careers.
If you want to hear me talk even more about Bruce Willis, I join Oliver Harper to revisit Hudson Hawk for a feature-length commentary, where I drop plenty of behind-the-scenes gossip that I missed out on the first time! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZroCfRR7J_8.html
What, you mean the very basic plot synopsis at the top of the video just to give everyone a basic idea of what the film is about? I don't think I need to separate the first minute of the video from the 20+ mins of opinion after.
Your review style is so much better than the old days, no offence. I always respected your opinions and knowledge but found it hard to listen. Now it’s just perfect. Good job
I applaud you for your love of the cinematic craft, because only someone with real passion can endure all the piles of garbage that comers behind the good ones.
I guess this is where Willis' career is now. I could tell from the trailers he just does not care anymore. Can we say this is a COSMIC sin against cinema?
Just to compare, Upgrade is set on a futuristic world where you have cars that makes sense on a very futuristic setting and still are normal cars, the movie is mainly devoided of futuristic landscapes or even weaponery and the only things it has is the lab where the sentient AI was created. Mind you that this was also a low budget movie that if im not wrong has half the budget of this movie, and is way more well made and it doesnt even have a recognizable hollywood super star like Bruce Willis, let that sink in. And to be honest even Time Cop had the decency to at least try to make the guns and cars look more futuristic and is essencially as low budget as this one but in comparision this makes Time Cop look like James Cameron Avatar. Clearly the best Willis had in modern times had been Unbreakable, Split (even if he just appears at the very end) and Glass, but that's because he did give a damn there and the director at least was trying its best and it says a lot when Shyamalan is the best thing that could happend to your carrer.
A) Nick Cage has at least an excuse to be in so many terrible movies B) Cage at least still gives a shit, even when he is in a bad movie. And that starts with actually being on set. C) From time to time, Cage gets to act in an actual good movie (Into the Spiderverse, for example) showing that he has at least somewhat a career.
Thankfully, this film did not let me lose faith on Frank Grillo. I might think that his small screentime here is to make up for "Boss Level". I'd recommend that to you, Mathew. It's million times better than Cosmic Sin.
Not to mention at least Nic Cage looks like he's having fun in his roles while Willis looks like he wants to kill himself. Update: With the recent news if Willis being diagnosed with aphasia, I rescind my prior comment about Willis' acting abilities.
You know, I watched a low budget SF film recently called Dune Drifter; it's a British one, from Marc Price who directed ultra-low budget zombie film Colin. It had a teeny budget of somewhere less than $100,000, so probably less than Cosmic Sin's... and it looks and plays so much better, so much more professionally. It still does a few things like have off-the-shelf props etc, but they're much better considered and used (like how the badguys wear Soviet designed gasmasks, since those things look terrifying), it has a space battle, done with model work, that looks amazing for something done with two models against a greenscreen in the director's living room, and it has a simpler, less derivative story. It's far from perfect, but far better video-night fare, and proves that a low budget is no excuse for sloppy filmmaking, pretty much showing up Cosmic Sin without even trying.
Poor Frank Grillo, the man has such untapped charisma and feels like a throwback to Steve McQueen or Charles Bronson type 70s action heroes when movies use him well like Purge 2 and 3 or Wheelman, but he's often relegated to such substandard trash.
@@ShadowAshe I saw it, I liked Grillo and thought the action was well handled. But it reminded me a lot of those Neveldine and Taylor movies like Crank or Gamer. But with better camera work. I'm not much of a Carnahan fan when he goes for comedic action. I like his work in stuff like Narc, The Grey, and The first season episodes of The Blacklist, but I don't like his comedic action films like Smokin' Aces, The A-Team, or Stretch. I liked Boss Level better than those 3 but I had similar issues with it.
And to make things even more vomit-inducing, this film got a theatrical release in my native Australia. A THEATRICAL RELEASE. That is amazingly absurd.
Bruce Willis is in another movie called "Breach" (I think that's the name) it's premise is pretty similar to "Cosmic Sin". Does he just take whatever he can get because he's that bored?
I didn't realise this was the state of Bruce Willis' career until I saw this review. I would have assumed he was still doing movies like Red 2, and it's a shame to see where he's at as an actor now.
This was great, I think we can be friends after this! Here in France I bought Anti-Life at an in-store promotion because I love sci-fi and just imagined this would be huge because Mr Willis was in it! But, speaking as someone who does work in the film industry (armour maker) yet at the same time I am working on some NO-budget films for myself, I draw the line at stacking hastily painted pallets for an instant space-corridor! I love bad-films when they are tongue-in-cheek, but it was impossible to see Anti-Life (Breach) as that because it had Willis in it and it seemed to be played straight? 🤔 Anyway, thank you for this, I have to see Cosmic Sin now. It looks amazing... in a Battlefield Earth kind of way. Keep up the great work, your Rant-Fu is strong my son (bows). 🙏🏆🇬🇧
Makes me wonder why Willis dosen't just retire. He obviously doesn't give two shits about making movies anymore, and one would think that he should have enough money to retire quite comfortably and find something he actually cares about.
I suspect it's partly the ego trip of *being* Bruce Willis at this point, the idea that he can care so little and do so poorly and only be on set for a day and people will still treat him like royalty.
2:22 I'd love you to share some of these stories-they would be very interesting to hear Gary Oldman seems to be going down the same path if 'The Contractor' is anything to go by
@@davidjames579 Yeah, spends most of his screen time in 'The Contractor' in the same location [wearing an eye patch!] and never interacts with the main leads. And like Willis he's second billed for doing very little.
@@jamesatkinsonja Is The Contractor a Millennium film? As he seemed to be on a package deal for them appearing in The Hitman's Bodyguard, Criminal and Hunter Killer in easily shot restricted roles. Richard E Grant seemed to be on a sweet day rate as his was a pointlessly brief casting in The Hitman's Bodyguard.
I had a very wholesome experience after watching this garbage fire of a movie. I saw it with my husband and there were two other gentlemen in the cinema (I'm in Queensland, Australia). When the movie was over, one of the gentlemen came up to me and asked 'Just so we're clear, that movie was shit. Right?' I had to laugh! Also, hope you're well!
@@davidjames579 Does Jeff Bezos have enough? Does Bobbie Kotick have enough? Does any rich person ever have enough money? No matter how much money you have there is always some ridiculous thing to spend money on.
Yes. I was thinking the same thing, watching this. I have to give it to them, they picked the perfect title, and they followed the Theme all the way to the end.
Be a Seagal, Willis, Cage team up soon about 3 lazy action heroes searching when there careers jumped the shark. Great review Mathew this is shambolic bafflegab of nonsensical piffle, Willis looks half asleep like he's just been woken from his trailer & quickly marched on to the set. However this a masterpiece compared to Willis other Sci fi movie Anti-Life.
Been waiting for you to do a video on one of these Bruce Willis travesties for ages. Your letterboxd/twitter reviews are so spot on and these films seem to be getting worse and worse
I just recently talked to my dad about Willis's recent movies, and he had seen Cosmic Sin on Netflix and said he couldn't finish it. My dad does not have a high bar for movies. He likes mindless entertainment. This thing must be wretched.
What's up with Willis? does he want to retire but doesn't have the money so he has to keep working? but then he'd show up more than one day right? If he has money then why does he bother when he doesn't care?
So, Willis fell victim to "The Hollyweird-Ring Curse", meaning if you don't do movies that will make you feel like being dead, on a regulare basis, you will die after 7 days!?
The toy gun with the orange tip really is sad. That's when you know they clearly didn't give any sort of care to the production of this movie whatsoever.
I agree that the movie was bad, but what you are saying about sci fi movies is your opinion. In the future we will be still using glocks, our cars probably won't look futuristic. If they do we probably won't buy them. Who wants a car shaped like a flying saucer? You might be saying this because everytime you see a sci fi film that's what they give us all the time so instead of being original we just do what everyone else is doing because we can't see it being done any other way. I mean it literally we can't see it being done any other way. When you see or hear something a great deal it kind of gets programed into your spirit. After that happens it becomes true to you and you can't see things any other way. It took me years to notice this.
A lot more of Bruce Willis' career these days makes sense you realize he STILL thinks his actual calling is jazz and blues music. Despite decades of society telling him otherwise.
I have some personal conspiracy theories about what’s going on w/ Bruce Willis.. but it says a lot about what he’s been in lately that my first thought wasn’t how did this trash movie get Bruce Willis it was how did it get Frank Grillo lol
I feel so sorry for Bruce Willis where did he guy who play John McClain in the die hard movies so by this point of his career he destroyed his Hollywood career and I remember when Willis wanted to do a die hard 6 movie I hope that doesn’t happened because Bruce Willis has become a douchebag and believe me I have seen the look of his face Willis if you are not interested in acting then retire
So, are the cliche evil aliens even OK looking in this? EDIT: oh they can possess human bodies... because that makes the budget smaller. ARGH cheap sci-fi is crap.
I have to wonder if you chart the growth of Bruce Willis' lack of giving a shit with the growth of the people who think/know he has a micro penis. And if that chart grows as quickly as I think it does, I'm disappointed in you, Bruce Willis. There's more to acting than groupies! But like also 🤔 Does that not eventually self fulfill?
Bruce Willis must’ve lost a bet or something because this was the worst thing I’ve ever seen. It’s like the entire budget was $5,000 and $4,950 of it went to Willis for phoning this shit in. He does ZERO acting in this.
“Disinterested” means impartial. What you mean is “uninterested.” But EVERYONE on RU-vid says “disinterested” to mean “uninterested, apparently not giving a damn.” I guess that that’s what the word means now! We simply need to say “impartial” when we mean the original meaning of “disinterested.” Right?
