One of Bruce Willis’ final movies before he retired from acting in 2022 has sH๏τ up the streaming charts and is a number one hit on Prime Video. As the iconic star of the Die Hard series, Willis is one of the most recognizable action heroes of all time, having sH๏τ, kicked, and punched his way through countless blockbusters.

With an impressive career, Willis’ work stands for itself, and there are plenty of hidden gems that showcase his range beyond the action genre, as he’s taken on everything from horror classics like The Sixth Sense to quirky whimsy in Moonrise Kingdom. With so many roles to his name, audiences are now revisiting one of his final films on streaming.

Gasoline Alley Is Number 1 On Prime Video

Bruce Willis Starred As Detective Bill Freeman

The action thriller Gasoline Alley has found belated success as a top hit on Prime Video in the United States this week. With Bruce Willis as Detective Bill Freeman, this fast-paced, straight-to-video release received poor reviews at the time as critics dismissed this story of detectives uncovering a vast conspiracy following a triple homicide as cliché-ridden and predictable.

However, this dark thriller featured an enjoyable late-career performance from Willis, alongside Luke Wilson as his fellow detective and Devon Sawa as the man implicated in the murders. Coming from writer-director Edward John Drake, Willis frequently worked with this filmmaker in the final years of his career in movies like Cosmic Sin, Apex, American Siege, and Detective Knight: Rogue.

Why Bruce Willis Stopped Making Movies

Willis Retired From Acting For Health Reasons In 2022

The final years of Bruce Willis’ career were a period of unfortunate decline, as he appeared in many low-budget sci-fi and action movies. With a string of widely panned direct-to-video releases coming out in rapid succession in the early 2020s, concerns around Willis’s cognitive state were raised (via LA Times) as he often appeared confused on set.

In 2022, the same year that Gasoline Alley was released on VOD, it was confirmed that Willis was suffering from aphasia, a disorder typically caused by damage to the area of the brain that controls language expression and comprehension (via Variety.) In 2023, Willis’s family announced that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (via CNN.)

While Gasoline Alley may not be one of Willis’ most acclaimed movies, it was made during a particularly challenging time for the former action star, and its success on streaming highlights his enduring appeal. Whether revisiting classics like Die Hard or checking out lesser-known direct-to-video тιтles, it’s clear Willis’s impact on cinema has been significant.

Sources: FlixPatrol, LA Times, Variety, CNN