10. Tears of the Sun
Tears of the Sun debuted in 2003 and saw Bruce Willis play a U.S. Navy Special-Ops commander who is tasked with rescuing a doctor and 70 refugees from a ruthless Nigerian warlord who hounds their every move.
9. The Whole Nine Yards
The Whole Nine Yards debuted in 2000 and saw Bruce Willis cast alongside Friends‘ Matthew Perry. The movie sees Willis as a former mob contract killer turned informant who is hiding from the Hungarian mob. It’s a black comedy with Perry’s down-on-his-luck dentist character attempting to contact the mob to inform on the whereabouts of Willis’ Jimmy “The Tulip” Tudeski. If you haven’t seen it before – it’s definitely one to check out and showcases Willis’ comedic chops.
8. The Jackal
The Jackal debuted in 1997 and with Willis taking on the role of a Russian hit-man with the code name Jackal. He’s contracted by Russian gangsters for a hit on a high-profile American target. Standing in the Jackal’s way is Richard Gere’s, Declan Mulqueen, a former IRA fighter who has been hired by the FBI to track down the Jackal. It’s a thriller for the ages and shows just how ruthless Bruce Willis can be. You won’t regret watching this one!
7. The Fifth Element
In The Fifth Element Bruce Willis plays an everyman taxi cab driver in the futuristic 23rd century. Willis’s character, Korben Dallas, is tasked with protecting the Fifth Element played by Milla Jovovich as she protects the world against the encroaching EVIL. Dallas and the Fifth Element travel across the galaxy facing danger at every turn as the EVIL employs Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg and his team of mercenary Mangalores to prevent the Fifth Element from saving the world.
If you are craving a sci-fi adventure, you can’t go wrong with The Fifth Element!
6. Die Hard with a Vengeance
Die Hard with a Vengeance is the third in the Die Hard movies and came out in 1995. Bruce Willis reprises his role as John McClane as he must outsmart Jeremy Irons’ Simon Gruber alongside Samuel L. Jackson’s Zeus Carver. Jackson’s Carver and Willis’ McClane run around New York City performing various tasks in order to prevent Gruber from blowing up another bomb. The movie captures the vibes of the original Die Hard and is an excellent action movie that will keep you delightfully entertained!
5. The Sixth Sense
Bruce Willis stars as Dr. Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, who attempts to cure Haley Joel Osment’s Cole Sear’s ailments in the 1999 thriller The Sixth Sense. The catch is Cole’s ailments aren’t your typical ailments. He “sees dead people.”
As with most M. Night Shyamalan directed films, The Sixth Sense has a twist ending that will leave you speechless!
4. Armageddon
Bruce Willis stars as geologist Harry Stamper in 1998s Armageddon. Stamper and his team of misfit geologists and drillers are trying to save the Earth from an incoming asteroid the size of Texas. They only have 18 days before impact and their goal is to detonate a nuclear warhead from inside the asteroid.
It’s a high action drama that will get your blood pumping!
3. Unbreakable
Bruce Willis takes on the role of David Dunn in the 2000 thriller Unbreakable. Dunn miraculously is the sole survivor of a horrific train crash that claimed the lives of 131 people. However, not only did he survive the accident, he came away completely unscathed. Enter Samuel L. Jackson’s character, Elijah Price, who tells Dunn a far-fetched story that explains his miraculous survival tale. But not everything is as it seems with Elijah Price.
Unbreakable is movie that will have you on the edge of your seat all the way until the end!
2. Pulp Fiction
Bruce Willis stars as Butch Coolidge, a boxer who decides to defy his gangster overlords in Quentin Tarantino’s epic Pulp Fiction. His story intertwines with two mob hit men played by John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, a gangster’s wife played by Uma Thurman, and the gangster played by Ving Rhames. The story follows these individuals through a series of funny and bizarre encounters.
It’s one of Bruce’s performances you can’t miss!
1. Die Hard
Bruce Willis’ best movie is the classic Die Hard. He stars as John McClane, an NYPD police officer, who crashes a Christmas party at Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles while visiting his estranged wife. But they are lucky he showed up because he’s the only doing anything about the terrorists who take over the building!
Die Hard has everything you want in a movie with heart-stopping action and solid comedic moments that break up the almost non-stop action.
And that’s our Top 10 Best Bruce Willis movies!
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