Bruce Willis is one of the most iconic actors in Hollywood . With a swaggering attitude and a killer stare , Willis has cement himself as one of the great cinematic action Hero . And when he steps outside the shoot - em - up genre , he also reminds us that he is a clean versatile and charismatic role player .

But with a career as long as Willis has had , not everything can be solid gold . In recent years peculiarly , Willis ’s output of film has been less than stellar . But of course , we take the good with the bad even when it comes to darling doer . Here are some of Willis ' best and bad films harmonize to IMDb .

Best: Twelve Monkeys (8.0)

Willis can sometimes be criticized for playing the same stoical and tough - guy roles again and again . However , when Terry Gilliam chose him to asterisk in his mind - stoop science - fabrication mystery , it gave Willis a luck to stretch his acting muscles . In a future in which humanity is forced underground by a mystic virus , Willis plays a convict who is sent back in clock time to find out where the outbreak come from .

The pic is a unequalled and surreal tarradiddle that demands to be watched more than once . Willis show off a lot of exposure as a man on this incredible journeying .

Worst: Vice (4.2)

Vice(not to be confused with the Oscar - nominated Dick Cheney film ) showcases the exact problem with Willis ’s latest moving picture efforts . The actor seems release to making film after plastic film that are unimaginative , straight to video , military action films that he seems to be sleepwalking through .

In the photographic film , Willis stars as the creator of a sumptuousness resort that allows its invitee to accomplish their most tabu fantasies , using the refuge ’s automatonlike slave however they please . But thing go awry when one robot gains a brain of its own and escapes . The pic offer nothing that Westworld did n’t do better .

Best: Sin City (8.0)

Frank Millerhas created some of the most iconic comic books of all time so it ’s no marvel filmmakers are so keen to stick to his unique vision when conform his piece of work . ForSin City , Robert Rodriguez brought each panel of Miller ’s violent noir anthology cinema to life-time on the big screen . Willis stars in one of the stories as a copper hunting a madman before his retirement .

The moving picture is a fashionable and imaginative ride filled with memorable characters and some wild tale . Rodriguez ’s passion for the work glow through and the all - star cast include Mickey Rourke , Benicio Del Toro , and Clive Owen are a circle of merriment .

Worst: Reprisal (4.2)

The belated lackluster action photographic film Willis has been apart of ready it clear he is no longer very concerned in play the action fighter persona . In these films , he usually play a supporting office that does n’t postulate much of him while another thespian conduct on most of the action sequence .

InReprisal , Frank Grillo guide the lead as a former bank coach haunted by a violent looting that happened under his watch . In an attempt to move on , he begins hunting down the thief responsible with the service of his X - cop buddy , played by Willis .

Best: The Sixth Sense (8.2)

Willis has made some of his most interesting work of the last few decades with M. Night Shyamalan withThe Sixth Sensebeing a standout photographic film on both of their survey . Willis stars as a child psychologist who start working with a tumultuous   minor ( Haley Joel Osment ) who arrogate   to see dead mass .

The movie is a magnificent ghost story with Shyamalan maintaining a creepy and effective feeling throughout . Willis devote one of his good performances and Osment in stunning . And , of course of study , the picture show featuresone of the slap-up twists in film account .

Worst: Extraction (4.1)

Extractionis yet another guinea pig of Willis phoning it in for a true - to - video release , this time playing a subaltern role to the likes of Kellan Lutz and Gina Carano . The film centers on a former CIA secret agent ( Willis ) who is kidnap as part of a terrorist plot and his son ( Lutz ) who coiffure out to hold open his father and the world .

The motion picture is more of the same from Willis ' recent films . The action is dull , the acting is bored and there is nothing new that we have n’t realize in a 12 other activity moving picture .

Best: Die Hard (8.2)

Willis ' long vocation as an action hero started withDie Hardwhich many still deal to be the dandy action mechanism picture ever made . Willis plays John McClane , a hard - headed New York cop who find himself face off against a group of terrorists who take over a Christmas party in a Los Angeles skyscraper .

The movie is a thrilling , comic and cunning legal action - adventure with some nail - biting sequence . Willis is the perfect put - upon Cuban sandwich who Alan Rickman create an iconic villain with Hans Gruber . It also happen to be one ofthe greatest Christmas pic ever made .

Worst: 10 Minutes Gone (3.5)

Willis seems to have formed a strong collaborative relationship in his belated career with director Brian A. Miller . But see how they have made the the likes of ofViceandReprisaltogether , it might be time for their partnership to terminate .

However , the two reunited again in 2019 for10 Minutes Gonewhich stars Michael Chiklis as a valet betrayed during a holdup who set out to exact revenge . Willis plays the man Chiklis works for . The result is a crime photographic film filled with clichés and nothing interesting to add to the musical style .

Best: Pulp Fiction (8.9)

Quentin Tarantino has made many beloved film in his calling , but many still considerPulp Fictionto be his true masterpiece . The movie is a crime saga , telling multiple stories of colourful character that intersect and collide with each other . Thomas Willis headline one of the stories as a boxer who gets on the bad side of a gangster .

The movie really let the world recognise Tarantino ’s unequalled voice as a filmmaker . The dialogue - heavy film is full of iconic lines and hilarious moments that have made their target on pop refinement . It is a magnificent , fun and industrious film like no other .

Worst: Air Strike (3.2)

Air Strike(also calledThe Bombing ) is a Taiwanese natural action warfare cinema that enlist the wizard - power of Willis to deal the film to a Western audience . It is revolutionise by the true World War II story of the Nipponese bombings of the metropolis of Chongqing .

Despite the incredible true news report , the film fails to do it justice . Given the awful special essence of the motion-picture show , it ’s a surprise it ever saw the light of day . The corny script and unimaginative performance do n’t do anything to lift the motion picture at all .

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