16 Blocks Page #8

Synopsis: Jack Mosley, a burnt-out detective, is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail to a courthouse 16 blocks away. However, along the way he learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD wants him dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long...
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Richard Donner
Production: Warner Bros.
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
56%
PG-13
Year:
2006
102 min
$36,900,000
Website
521 Views


the last 5 years...

...your voice too has changed

To say straight, you will not be able to recognize

your own self. You are a new person now.

In the hospital, when

I regained consciousness...

...the facts that stared back at me

Even if I want to, I cannot

go back to my old life

My dream for 24 years to be

a cop also came to a full stop

I was forced to live

half my 20s asleep

I was mad at the doctors

for saving me

But above all...

...I could not believe or digest the News is

The killer is still missing

From the time I heard that

My blood got boiled

That is why I started looking for answers

as the case was still open

The one you respected and encouraged,

New recruit constable Goutham

Hello Goutham, it is weird. Honestly it feels

Like I am talking to a new person

Whatever you asked me now,

you could have asked me directly, Gautham

I wonder what mistake I committed

for you to point a gun at me

I came 10 days ago to ask you directly.

I think you had a visitor

I had seen the same face

5 years ago in a white Dzire

Actually you are lucky sir. I did not have this gun

that day. If I had,

I would have finished right then

the job I intend today

I hope you now understand

why I am pointing this gun at you

He erased 5 years

of my life and my identity

You knew this truth too

And yet, you chose

not to take any action

I am not such a bad person to hold you

at gun point without any reason and talk

You are not that good a person to

let a criminal escape and save him

What I need is justice. I believe I will get it

What I am doing now

may seem wrong to others

But I feel this is

the only right answer

I have come with a decision

Without any change whatsoever

You have to come out

with the truth

You have no other choice

Tell me, sir

Tell me, sir

This is your last warning

Do not point the gun at him

At least now, I can die without any guilt.

Rajeev is my son!

I should surprise dad. I am here for birthday of my girl.

The fact that I have a girlfriend

And the reason I amhere

My dad is not aware of either

I lost my mom when I was very young.

But he never let me feel that loss

This will come as a complete surprise for you, dad

And Shruthi her entry in my life is a big luck

This wound will not heal

This journey does not end

Fort of the dreams is a myth

- Forgot mobile in the station

Death has come in the way

Is safe in the heart

Life has stopped and is taken away

- White color car sir, I just know that

A blank sheet of paper

Is my life

Death has redrafted my fate clearly

After a while, knock on

your neighbors door

Tell him Shruti is missing

I fell in a mirage to be true

I fell out knowing the truth

Seeking for death

Life evaporating

Is diminished in the last

In the last moment

Someone was waiting in front

of your house for a long time

Who?

- No idea, an young man

Must be around 6:00 pm

I saw him when I was going for my walk

Come to the airport

after 10:
00 p.m

Both of you stay in Nasik

till I let you know it is safe

A stranger just tossed something

from his car into a pond, sir

Explain clearly

He opened his car trunk and flung

something huge into the pond, sir

What vehicle, sir?

- White Dezire sir

Without any valid reason

A personal scar in my sons life

He cannot erase it

even if he wants to

That is why he decided to cover it up.

But life had other ideas

Thus I welcomed

did I not tell you, in the beginning?

Karma is a boomerang

However far you may hurl it...

...it will bounce back to us

Maybe seeing my story from Gautham

point of view...

...I would have been the villain, who knows

But did you notice something?

The reason my

life ended like this...

...is because of the decisions

I took at an emotional peak

In case Shruti had not insulted Krish

in a moment of sheer hatred

In red hot rage, if Krish had not

commited that inhuman act

In a state of panic if Rajeev

Had not murdered Krish

If I had not hidden all this truth

due to parental love and affection...!

Finally if Gautham had not shot me

for the sake of pure justice...

...life would have been

so different, right?

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