The 6 best and 6 worst Bruce Willis movies – Looper

Bruce Willis is no stranger to critical disappointment, but director Rob Reiner of This is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride, and A Few Good Men fame certainly was when he released the critically panned North. The movie, in which Willis helps a young Elijah Wood search for ideal parents, is among the career low points of both actors, as well as Reiner, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, Scarlett Johansson, and pretty much everyone else associated with the movie. Having one of the most impressive ensemble casts ever assembled isn't enough to make up for a melodramatic script and misguided direction.

Nobody put the film's flaws more beautifully than Roger Ebert:"North is one of the most unpleasant, contrived, artificial, cloying experiences I've had at the movies. To call it manipulative would be inaccurate; it has an ambition to manipulate, but fails." He later added, "I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering, stupid, vacant, audience-insulting moment of it." His hatred of the film became somewhat infamous, to the point thatNorth writer Alan Zweibel once met as Ebert at a party and jokingly told him, "And I just have to tell you, Roger, that that sweater you're wearing? I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate that sweater." Enabling that joke might be the only good thing North accomplished.

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The 6 best and 6 worst Bruce Willis movies - Looper