Frank Grillo admits he recently did worst movie he's ever done with Bruce Willis to 'pay for his new garden'

Frank Grillo says he recently starred in the worst movie of his career with Bruce Willis.

The action hero opened up about the film business, and how sometimes you've got to go where the money takes you... such as with Reprisal:

The 2018 release centres on Grillo's character Jacob, whose bank is robbed by a violent thief, and so seeks the help of friend James (Willis) to get revenge.

The synopsis reads: "An ex-cop joins forces with a bank manager to track down a highly skilled and ruthless thief; the situation soon escalates when the robber kidnaps the manager's wife and daughter."

Despite having the cache of a Hollywood legend like Willis behind it, the film was a veritable flop.

According to Rotten Tomatoes, it currently has a rating of eight percent, which is pretty terrible by anyone's standards.

Slamming the flick, one critic said: "Thoroughly uninspired and laughably incoherent, this low-budget parade of cops-and-robbers clichés is an embarrassment for all involved."

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While another remarked: "An ordinary man does a lot of dumb things in order to hunt down a master criminal for no logical reason in Reprisal."

But it wasn't just the film buffs who didn't think much of it, even one of its stars hated it.

Speaking to Collider, Grillo said that it was just a job to him, which he took even though he knew it was awful.

"I've been in so many bad movies," he admitted. "Here's the worst movie I've ever done, also with Bruce Willis, it's called Reprisal.

"And in it, I'm married to Olivia Culpo, I think she's a 25-year-old Miss Universe, and she's my wife, and we have a 16-year-old daughter, and she's like, 16.

"And the movie's so bad and it makes no sense; I'm like, 'Oh wow, I took a money job'.

"And my garden looks great, because it paid for a new garden, but it's so embarrassing."

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Expanding on his reasoning behind the film, Grillo said: "You just pray it doesn't come out. I blame Bruce Willis, and somehow my name was before his on the poster - I'm like, 'No, no, no, no'."

Asked if he can tell whether a film is gonna be bad by reading the script, the 57-year-old said: "Immediately.

"First of all, that truly was a money job.

"It was a bunch of money for a very short period of time, which was why I think Bruce Willis did it."

He added: "It was a one-off, I'm never doing that again."

Topics: Bruce Willis, US News, Entertainment, Film and TV

Dominic Smithers

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