![]() To be fair, he apologizes when Rooker’s character softly demands it. Willis is here to give orders - sometimes in his own voice - “Put a bullet in that b-‘s head or I’ll put one in yours.“ Malkovich is here to give Rooker a little lecture on ancient Greek justice. ![]() She proves to be pretty hard to take out. Michael Rooker stars as a veteran hired killer with a pretty boy protege ( Vadhir Derbez), a mob lawyer ( John Malkovich) go-between, an impatient mob boss (Willis) and a dead wife whom he broods over, all the way through the movie.Ī gang war involving that boss, the Mexican mafia and “The Russians” is breaking out, and the hitmen find themselves having to “clean up” two cops ( Michael Rose and Kurylenko) who saw the sniper school-trained (and tattooed) Carlos (Derbez) after a murder. This unfortunately-timed bodycount features Bruce Willis, who has to have half his lines dubbed or looped, Eugenio Derbez’s handsome and wooden-as-a-Sequoia son, Tifton, Georgia substituting for the Southwest border country and almost zero non-corrupt police presence evident as larger and larger teams of tac-geared hired killers come after “clean cop” Olga Kurylenko –– and miss. ![]() ![]() The old joke that “Assault rifles are for gangsters, and rednecks too lazy to learn to shoot” comes to mind when sitting through the mayhem of “White Elephant,” a cop-hunted-by-hitmen thriller starring a lot of old-in-the-tooth action stars. ![]()
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