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  • 1993
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 1993
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m

Summary Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted then to river duty, the killer taunts Tom.

Directed By: Rowdy Herrington

Written By: Marty Kaplan, Rowdy Herrington

  • 1993
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 1993
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m

Striking Distance

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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Summary Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted then to river duty, the killer taunts Tom.

Directed By: Rowdy Herrington

Written By: Marty Kaplan, Rowdy Herrington

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
36
8% Positive
2 Reviews
44% Mixed
11 Reviews
48% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
36
8% Positive
2 Reviews
44% Mixed
11 Reviews
48% Negative
12 Reviews

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80
Striking Distance is a solid adventure with just enough edge and mystery.
By Richard Harrington FULL REVIEW
50
Not much sets director (and co-writer) Rowdy Herrington's suspenser apart from other run-of-the-mill efforts in this genre, though a number of supporting players acquit themselves well. And the story's resolution has the ring of unpleasant truth to it. Willis is by now so familiar with characters like the perennially grungy Hardy that he can portray them in his sleep - and at times seems to be doing just that - while Sarah Jessica Parker makes for a fairly lackluster romantic sidekick. [22 Sept 1993, p.E10]
By David Baron FULL REVIEW
50
The plot of STRIKING DISTANCE is full of implausibilities, but they're entirely beside the point, since the film delivers what it promises: tough talk, chase scenes by land and by water, plenty of explosions, and pretty girls murdered in nasty and imaginative ways, served up with a dash of sex and a generous helping of knee-jerk cynicism.
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40
Herrington stages his action efficiently enough - the opening car chase manages to put a couple of spins on a hackneyed cinema staple - but is let down by his own script which seems to have been hanging around in the water so long it's become bloated.
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38
Striking Distance is an exhausted reassembly of bits and pieces from all the other movies that are more or less exactly like this one.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
25
Its whodunit plot is easily figured out, and its story is a mess. Most surprisingly, its star, Bruce Willis, manages to pull off an entirely uncharismatic performance...Striking Distance passes through boring on its way from indifferent to laughable, with the last 20 minutes the most ridiculous. [17 Sept 1993, p.C1]
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
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This is pop pornography, sex and violence without meaning. If you can't figure out the way Striking Distance is going in the first few minutes, it just means you've already fallen asleep.
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Production Company Columbia Pictures, Arnon Milchan Productions
Release Date Sep 17, 1993
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating R
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Tagline Loyalty above all else, except honour.
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