1. The Whole Ten Yards (2004)
The Whole Nine Yards split its critics; some clearly loathed it while others were more kind. I myself was and still am fairly ambivalent. Its not the worst thing to drop out of Hollywoods arse, but its certainly far from the best either. It was so-so; hardly deserving of a sequel. Yet a sequel was green-lit regardless, because these days, if a movie makes even $1 more than what was expected of it, you can pretty much guarantee itll get a number 2 somewhere down the line. And with The Whole Ten Yards, a number 2 is exactly what we got. The problem with a film as terribly ill-conceived as this is that, as an actor, what can you do? Youd have more luck breathing life into a soap-opera script and as a result, even if Willis and Matthew Perry the two leads werent only in it for the paycheck, even if they tried their little actor hearts out to give their all for the camera, theyd probably still have come off as tepid and asinine. Willis is over the top in this comedic (term used extremely loosely) role; so over the top in fact that hes surely impossible to find funny, even if you suffer from a clinical illness that makes you find boring, patronising, inane nonsense funny. Disappointing, and especially so when coming from a guy who once delivered one of the funniest action heroes in cinema history. So there are our picks of 5 awesome Willis turn, and 5 not so hot ones. Anything youd care to contend? Anything you want to add? You know where the comments are