Qthis evening, on first TV at 9.20pm on Italy 1the action is broadcast Survive the Game. One of the last films starring Bruce Willis shortly before he was diagnosed frontotemporal dementia incurable from which he suffers. Illness which, necessarily, forced him to abandon acting to dedicate himself to care and family.
Survive the Gamethe plot
Detective David Watson (Bruce Willis) and his partner Cal (Swen Temmel) I have been on the trail of the for a long time drug dealer Mickey and his girlfriend-accomplice Violet. One day, the drug trafficking couple is in a department store on a deal when David and Cal they raid the place.
In the chaos of the raid, Mickey and Violet shoot the cops and David gets shot. Cal believes him dead and for this reason he starts chasing the two, leaving his partner behind. The drug dealers, after fleeing by car, reach a farm owned by a former soldierEric (Chad Michael Murray), a man who lost his wife and daughter in a recent car accident.
Soon after, Cal reaches the place and to save Eric’s life, threatened by the two, hides him in the woods near the farm. Meanwhile, Mickey asks for reinforcements and his criminal friend Frank arrives on the scene. bringing with him other henchmen but also a wounded and bleeding David and not dead as Cal believed. David manages to free himself and so, the two policemen and Eric find themselves fighting for their lives against a small army of criminals.
Bruce Willis in a scene from “Survive the Game”. (Lionsgate)
A well-made but unconvincing film
Transporting some characteristics of western cinema within a plot that mixes action and thriller, Survive the Game And an honest b-movie without too many ambitions and with a limited budget. Despite the limitations however, the film can boast a pretty solid scriptmulti-faceted characters and also a pinch of self-irony.
If the plot convinces more in the less tense scenes and more focused on the psychological aspects, on the other hand some moments of pure action, such as the car chases, are a little neglected and leave a bad taste in the mouth. Furthermore, although he is certainly in better shape than the now bloated Steven Seagal, Bruce Willis is not Sylvester Stallone And It doesn’t seem particularly convincing in beating up kids who might be his grandchildren.
Filmed in 2021, the film is one of the last ones shot sincethe star of Crystal trap before he was diagnosed with one rare degenerative disease: frontotemporal dementia. The symptoms and the first signs they had surfaced right during processing Of Survive the Game, as he told the Los Angeles Times director James Cullen. And the actor’s conditions are increasingly serious.
Bruce Willis’ health conditions are worsening
After a story published on Instagram by his daughter Scout LaRue during Thanksgiving, the press and the actor’s fans are increasingly worried. Fixed gaze into space and slowed movementsthe actor lets Scout pet his hand. “My boyfriend” writes the daughter who then comments: «Hand in hand in love».
Unfortunately, in fact, it seems that the star’s health conditions are worsening. As a source close to the family declared to the American weekly a few days ago Us Weekly. «It has good and less good days, but in the last two months the balance tends to be negative». Even the doctors unfortunately they fail to predict life expectancy of Bruce and for this reason the women of his family try to spend every moment with him. The last born Rumerfor example, He often brings his eight-month-old daughter Louetta to spend time with her grandfather.
Now, as Christmas approaches, the goal is to create new memories and celebrate those of the past together also together with his ex-wife Demi Moore. Although, according to the American magazine Closer, it seems that Bruce doesn’t even recognize the actress anymore Ghost. A fact that would have «heartbroken» of Demi who, despite her divorce many years ago, never abandoned him.
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