Excellent adaptation.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

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. Striking Distance in my opinion is one of Bruce Willis most underrated films to be honest with you, it has some great twists and turns and an ending that was rather unexpected to say the least. Willis is very good in his role and the same goes for Sarah Jessica Parker as his love interest, Robert Pastorelli who is more known for his appearance in the film Eraser (1996) also does a great job and there's a twist regarding his character. Overall great 90's thriller!!! (10/10)

Striking Distance (1993) is underrated Bruce Willis action film from the 90's with Director Rowdy Herrington (Road House) who wrote the screenplay for the film with producer Marty Kaplan. After the success of Die Hard (1988), Die Hard 2 (1990) and The Last Boy Scout (1991) Bruce Willis made another action film in which he plays another cop from Pittsburgh Tom Hardy. This is my favorite Bruce Willis action film alongside with Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Die Hard With A Vengeance, Live Free or Die Hard, The Last Boys Scout and Sin City. I can't believe that this movie has such a bad reputation. I love this movie I love it. I don't know what's wrong? It is a damn solid action mystery flick and that a good one. Bruce Willis does a solid job and so does Sarah Jessica Parker as Tom Hardy's partner. It is a rated Hard-R action film with action scenes and a good gun shutouts. I wish that Bruce Willis would make such a good movies today but he doesn't he is a washed up actor now."Who's the best cop now?" Plot: A serial killer is back in Pittsburgh to torment the former homicide detective who was on his trail years before. Tom Hardy, who has been relegated to water-way duty, along with new partner Jo Christman, navigate the three rivers looking for clues and discovering bodies. This time the victims are women Tom knows, he must find the killer to prove his innocence.This time Bruce Willis is a homicide detective to solve a case of a serial murders. A serial killer strangler is on the loose called Polish Hill, he murders women and the cops has no clue who's doing it. After the car chase with his dad Capt. Vincent Hardy (John Mahoney) and an accident leave's Tom's dad dead and his partner Jimmy Detillo (Robert Pastorelli) jumps off the bridge in the river, Tommy (Bruce Willis) loses everything including his job. Two years later Tommy is now a river duty cop but his still believes the killer was a another cop but no one believes him. The killer Polish Hill returns, he taunts Tom taunts by killing his ex-girlfriends one by one and dumping them in the river. Now it is up to Tom to solve the mystery.What's wrong? This movie has a good action scenes: you have a car chases, boat chases, action scene on the boat. Hardy prevent's an armed robbery on the boat and he saves a hostages. Tom Hardy fights the strangler Jimmy in the river and he tasering him in the mouth with a stun gun and we have a mystery about the identity of a serial killer. We have a good dialogues Who's the best cop now?" Good acting from actors Tom Sizemore, Robert Pastorelli and Dennis Farina who are no longer with us anymore RIP you will be both missed.Here we have a great music score from Brad Fiedel who made music scores also for The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Let's Get Harry, Fright Night 1,2 , The Serpent and the Rainbow, Blue Steel, True Lies, and Johnny Mnemonic.The movie is directed by Rowdy Herrington who also directed my favorite Patrick Swayze film Road House (1989). This is my second favorite film of his. I have this movie on Blu-ray disc and it was a long time since I have seen this movie. But no one talk's today about this movie no one even mention's it anymore it is a really shame and I don't know why.I have enjoyed Bruce Willis and I have enjoyed Sarah Jessica Parker it was a solid good fun mystery action film and I don't know why the lower rating for it or why people are bashing it.I love this movie it is my favorite Bruce Willis movie I wish they would make movies like this are today I really do wish. The rating I give to this film is 8/10. Anything under 7 would be ridiculous, as anyone claiming this isn't at least a GOOD action film (it is sure as hell better than all the movies Bruce Willis is doing today including A Good Day to Die Hard that movie was a peace sh**t film!) I recommend to all action and Bruce Willis fans.Striking Distance is a 1993 American action thriller film starring Bruce Willis as Pittsburgh Police homicide detective Thomas Hardy. The film co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, and Tom Sizemore. It was directed by Rowdy Herrington and written by Herrington and Marty Kaplan. The film was shot on location throughout Pittsburgh; its early title was Three Rivers.8/10 Grade: B+ Studio: Columbia Pictures Starring: Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, Tom Sizemore, Brion James, Robert Pastorelli, Tom Atkins Director: Rowdy Herrington Producers: Marty Kaplan, Arnon Milchan Screenplay: Rowdy Herrington, Marty Kaplan Rated: R Running Time: 1 Hr. 42 Mins. Budget: $30.000.000 Box Office: $24,107,867

This average thriller stars Bruce Willis as a former cop turned drunk (pretty much the role he always played in these early '90s films) who is on the track of a serial killer. Of course, we've been here before a million times, but things are kept moving along swiftly along by some well-paced action sequences, as well as an intriguing plot involving a conspiracy within the police force (standard fare for '90s crime thrillers). Bruce Willis plays his typical, hard bitten yet endearing cop, who this time around gets framed for a series of brutal murders. He is given able support by Sarah Jessica Parker and a solid cast of movie veterans, including Dennis Farina as his strict uncle, Tom Sizemore as a spaced out nutter, and Brion James in a typically villainous role.The action scenes may not be the most original of all time, but most of them are pretty good, one standout involving a flare gun being fired at a speeding car. There are also the requisite speedboat chases, although none of them reach the frenzy of FACE/OFF's exciting climax. However the best scenes involve Willis as he steady uncovers the crimes surrounding him, and gets framed bit by bit. Therefore the film really hinges on Willis' central performance, and as I'm a big fan of Willis, I liked this film more than I would have done without him. Not the most startling, original film in the world, but an okay brainless actioner nonetheless.

Striking Distance (1993): Dir: Rowdy Herrington / Cast: Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tom Sizemore, Robert Pastorelli, Dennis Farina: Cliché filled mess that misses its mark. Bruce Willis stars as a homicide detective whose father was murdered by a serial killer. An innocent victim faces death row and Willis suspects a cop. This decreases his popularity amongst the other officers and leads to a demotion to a river rescue squad with Sarah Jessica Parker. Suddenly women he knows are found in the river and he suspects that it could be linked to his father's murder. Plot is as dead as the victims with a climax wallowing in its violent muck. Director Rowdy Herrington handles the plot twists as well as high powered action sequences but the screenplay provides nothing that hasn't been done countless times. Willis survives the dread as he accepts his demotion as a trespass to further clues involving his past. Sarah Jessica Parker only exists as a possible love interest. Not to sound sexist but generally the females in these films are there more or less for physical encounters with the hero. Parker is far above this material but is wasted in a role that is presented pretty much so to put a female in the film. She lucked out and got cast in this junk. Tom Sizemore and Robert Pastorelli surrender to useless stereotypes. A pointless noise that misses its mark by a long shot. Score: 2 / 10