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"Bruce Willis filmed all his scenes in one afternoon" in his own hotel room tells you everything you need to know about this routine B-movie thriller, happy to go through the motions without any life, vitality, freshness or effort. Michael Chiklis is a robber who finds himself on the run with his girlfriend after things go bad; even worse, he's suffering from amnesia. A series of violent confrontations takes places, but all this boils down to is one cast member being shot dead in a random shoot-out after another. Chiklis does his best here but it's not enough, and Willis couldn't be more bored.

The only reason I gave this movie a chance is because I insist on seeing every movie with Bruce Willis. Love most of this work. But this is one he clearly did for the paycheck, because he put no effort into this role and had a total of maybe 10 minutes of screen time. Just a big name meant to pull in poor saps like me.

There is nothing original or inspiring about this C-movie action flick. Michael Chiklis plays a veteran bank robber who in the opening minutes of a "perfectly planned" heist gone wrong, gets knocked to the ground. When he awakens 10 minutes later (with no bruising to account for the head trauma), the loot is gone and his brother is dead. The rest of the movie is him trying to figure out how it all went wrong.

The dialogue is probably the worst thing about this movie. Wooden, unoriginal, poorly written, will make you laugh out loud at the "serious" parts. Second worst is Meadow Williams, whose utter lack of acting talent is exacerbated by the amount of botox in her forehead, the combination of which makes her utterly incapable of expressing any emotion convincingly whatsoever. The choice of Lydia Hull as the badass fixer-upper/cleaner was equally poor casting, though thankfully she's barely in the movie.

And then all the cliches. Guys with machine guns who couldn't hit the ground if they tried, shooting guns with one hand, walking toward the camera in sunglasses in slow motion with an explosion behind you, the "surprise" villain at the end monologuing and providing exposition for the viewers who fell asleep for the first 80 minutes. As for the "plot twist" reveal of the villain, it would have been surprising had I not been able to call it about 15 minutes into the movie.

This is a good movie to have on in the background while you're doing other things. If you lower your expectations to ground level, you will be barely disappointed.

Several superstar actors from the 1980s are clinging pathetically to their once prestigious careers in shoddy, second-rate, straight-to-video fodder. John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, and Adam Sandler went into decline years ago. Lately, Bruce Willis has followed in their footsteps with a number of half-baked, B-grade genre thrillers which land in theatres on a limited play basis and cast him in peripheral roles. Nevertheless, Willis takes top billing. Ostensibly, he shows up just long enough to make an impression. Presumably, nobody wants Willis any longer for substantial movies. Willis' last major role was an ill-fated remake of the iconic Charles Bronson's revenge movie "Death Wish," and it deservedly bombed at the box office. The latest Willis quickie is helmed by director Brian A. Miller, who called the shots on two earlier Willis thrillers "Vice" (2015) and "The Prince" (2014). Miller's gritty "10 Minutes Gone," a lackluster heist caper about a flawed bank robbery, lensed in Cincinnati, Ohio, barely passes muster with a formulaic plot any ten-year old could figure out. The abrupt twist ending looks as if it were designed primarily so neither the Willis character nor the Michael Chiklis character die at fade out. This fast-paced, 89-minute movie lacks a shred of originality and generates about as much suspense. Rex (Bruce Willis) hires h nimble-fingered, professional safecracker, Frank (Michael Chiklis of "Fantastic Four"), along with Frank's brother, Joe (Tyler Jon Olson of "Arsenal"), to ransack a safety deposit box which contains a cryptic metal case. Mind you, neither Frank nor Joe know about the contents of the box. At one point, Rex reveals that this highly sought-after case contains $30 million in jewelry. Halfway through the heist, things go sideways for Frank and Joe, and they have to make a fast getaway. No sooner have they exited the bank unscathed while their accomplices shoot it out with the police than their luck runs out. Frank takes a blow to the back of his head. Ten minutes later, when he regains consciousness, he is shocked to learn his brother has been shot and killed. Most of "Ten Minutes Gone" chronicles Frank's desperate efforts to learn what happened and who betrayed them. The best thing about "Ten Minutes Gone" is its breakneck pace as Frank questions his surviving accomplices. The first thing Frank does afterward is look up Joe's girlfriend, Claire (Meadow Williams of "Den of Thieves"), who needs his protection. Joe had told Frank to look after Claire if anything went wrong, and Frank does that very thing. Meantime, Rex is perplexed by the sudden turn of events, and he dispatches a trigger-happy dame, Ivory (Lydia Hull of "Broken City"), to bring back the box. No matter where Frank goes, he doesn't get any answers, until it dawns on him who the culprit is. If you closely watch Frank and Joe's meeting in a bar where they are outlining their plan, you'll know the identity of the dastard. In this kind of sort of 'film noir,' our heroes are undermined by a greedy girl. Miller doesn't waste of second of screen time, but the outcome is so obvious that there is no surprise. Normally, had this been made ten years ago, Willis would have played Frank, and Chiklis would have been cast as Rex. Die-hard Bruce Willis fans are the demographic that Miller and company have targeted in this disposable melodrama.

Dear gods avoid this movie. Not even Willis cared enough to act. Other review is right about this being nothing new. Just a mindless action movie. Chiklis was good but everyone else was really bad. The actress was so terrible, my friends and I could not stop laughing every time she spoke. First thing I said when she first showed up was "she's the one who did it" and I was right. So glad I didn't pay to see this or I'd have been so much angrier.