Rent Midnight in the Switchgrass (2021)

Another bad Bruce Willis film - Midnight in the Switchgrass review by TH

Not sure why I keep thinking movies like this will be watchable. Yet another boring bland thriller with Willis going through the motion and lifeless performances from Hirch (what happened to a once promising actor)and Megan Fox who hams it up.

Didnt care by the end.

1 star is being generous.

Hackneyed Serial Killer Thriller - Midnight in the Switchgrass review by GI

A standard serial killer film that is all a little dated and comes over as a straight-to-video 90s style of thriller. Bruce Willis despite second billing has a teeny role and adds zero to the story so I suspect his presence is to draw an audience. Loosely based on a real killer this tells the story of Peter (Lukas Haas), a trucker, who is kidnapping and killing young prostitutes. On his trail is a local cop, Byron (Emile Hirsch) who joins up with FBI agent, Rebecca, who is working a sex trafficking case and acts as a lure in her hunt for her suspect and of course it turns out they're after the same man. For inexplicable reasons the film has quirky flashbacks to scenes we've already seen and which add nothing other than to attempt to make this hackneyed film into something more interesting. It doesn't succeed. There's no mystery in the narrative as we get to know who the killer is almost immediately. There's elements of exploitation on show too in the depiction of young women, scantily clad being tortured and killed. There's nothing here to commend this, it's clunky script is poor and the idea very out of touch.

Curious to see one of Bruce Willis' final films - Midnight in the Switchgrass review by AER

This was released long before news reached us that Bruce Willis was very ill. I'd begun to notice his face on the front of lots of DVD covers for films I'd never heard of, so I was wondering if he'd been blacklisted. So with knowledge of how poorly he was I decided to try one of the higher profile releases. MIDNIGHT IN THE SWITCHGRASS has name support from Megan Fox (Transformers)... and decent character actors like Emile Hirsch (LORDS OF DOGTOWN) and Lukas Haas (BRICK), however, the lousy script and the sleepy acting from everybody makes this tortuous. The film is like the bits you fast forward through in a soft-porn story porn movie. It's shockingly wooden, dreadfully plotted, and one hundred percent moronic. Why did Bruce sully his legacy for this? To build a decent nest egg for his kids? Had to be the green.