★★★★☆

Corrective Measures really deserves 4 stars. There just isn’t a half-star character in most fonts. Tubi has done the world a favor putting this movie together. Bruce Willis really tried to let his star power launch a lot of actor’s careers. Naturally not all of them will make it, but he did the human species a favor. You can watch this movie for free on Tubi and it was new in 2022.

This script is a smattering of one episode from Inside Out (used to be on the Playboy channel), the early X-Men stories, and Cool Hand Luke.

They even rip-off that famous line!

Michael Rooker

This guy shines as the warden of the prison. You know him from Guardians of the Galaxy franchise. You really should know him from Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. This guy can act. Give him some “out there” role or subject matter (like an actual serial killer) and he can deliver. For most people it would be a career ending role. Watch the movie, the whole movie, if you don’t understand. That movie is rated 7 out of 10 on IMDB which is impressive considering most people didn’t make it to the end.

Corrective Measures gives Michael Rooker a chance to freewheel. His role is much like the one he had in Guardians . . . and . . . completely different. Watch the movie, you will understand.

Bruce Willis

It’s a shame Bruce Willis waited until he got a sucks-to-be-you diagnosis to push out a bunch of low-budget movies. Yeah, some of them kinda suck and won’t really help the actor’s careers. This one is firmly in the does not suck category. Bruce really excels at these subdued supporting roles. Not many big stars can make the transition to the passenger seat, but he has done an admirable job of it!

Inside Out

You can’t really find much about this anymore. I don’t even like the description IMDB has for it. They were a series of short skits that were softcore erotica meets Night Gallery and The Outer Limits. I don’t say this to make you think it is a horror flick because it’s not. Quite a bit of it is funny. The ending is almost a direct rip-off of my favorite Inside Out eposide. I don’t even remember the name of it and I cannot tell you anymore without ruining the knock-out punch of this movie.

If you are twenty-something and in a relationship that has lasted more than a month or two, you should get all of the episodes you can of Inside Out and watch them together, just a few at a time, perhaps one a night. There was multiple forms of magic going on with the skits. Yes, there was some softcore erotica in them, but they were masters of taking you right up to the edge of something you are absolutely certain will happen then dropping you off in a city you have never heard of. A good number of the episodes prompted questions couples should ask each other.

Summary

Corrective Measures is a well done movie. Tubi gave the human race quite a gift creating this movie and putting it where it could be watched for free. It reminds me of what we don’t get anymore. Writing! There is way too much comic book formula out there. Yes this had comic book subject matter, but they remembered to add the writing.

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