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Genres:
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Action /
Crime /
Drama /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Florent Emilio Siri
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Actors:
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Rumer Willis,
Marjean Holden,
Marshall Allman,
Michael D. Roberts,
Michelle Horn,
Bruce Willis,
Kevin Pollak,
Jimmy Bennett,
Ben Foster,
Jonathan Tucker,
Serena Scott Thomas,
Kim Coates,
Robert Knepper,
Tina Lifford,
Ransford Doherty
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Duration:
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113 min.
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Rating:
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(6.7/10)109.5
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Plot Summary:
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Haunted around his failure to conserve a child from a suicidal nutter, hostage negotiator Jeff Tally leaves Los Angeles to develop patrol chief of upscale suburb Bristo Camino. But the ghosts of Tally's previous field add up to back to obsess him when two brothers and their mysterious traveling companion Mars Krupchek lampoon a suburbanite family hostage after a failed robbery. Unbenknownst to the gunmen, their hostage is actually a numbers runner for West Coast kingpin Sonny Benza, and the house contains documentation that put him away. Facing heat from associates in Different York, Benza ki... dnaps Tally's wife and daughter and blackmails him into procuring the incriminating evidence. But the situation escalates up remote when Counterfoil discovers that Mars is a serial butcher who is eyeing the hostages, and possibly his accomplices, to be his next victims.
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Hostage
Mike ClarkThe prologue of Hostage finds Bruce Willis sporting a salt-and-pepper beard as the police negotiator he plays tragically blows a precarious Los Angeles case. With its main character's personal demons now firmly established, the movie proceeds to the main event - but not before its hero gets a shave.
This is fitting. The human element matters little in this movie, regardless of how strenuously its hackneyed script attempts to convince you otherwise. Hostage is really about sleek Bruce -- buff, bald and clean-shaven -- as he goes to town on two sets of assailants. Bullets fly and flames erupt, proving that some movie concepts really do die hard.
What makes the movie difficult to assess with precision is the gap between what we're seeing (basically, ...
Hostage
Kevin ThomasMade with energetic flair and no small dose of violence, mercifully handled with discretion, Hostage exemplifies taut, confident filmmaking. Bruce Willis draws upon the full measure of his strong physical presence, his intelligence and his considerable emotional resources held in reserve.
Under Florent Siri's authoritative direction, Willis holds together Doug Richardson's fiendishly clever script, based upon Robert Crais' novel, that tantalizingly teeters on the brink of improbability while keeping the viewer constantly on the edge of the seat.
An expertly staged opening sequence reveals why Willis' Jeff Talley, the LAPD's prime hostage negotiator, winds up a year later the chief of police of a quiet Ventura County town. Three youths (Ben Foster, ...
Hostage, Of Course!!!!
Bruce Willis plays an ex hostage negotiator who blames himself for the death of a mother and son during one of his negotiations.
As usual, as in any other film of his, his character as the present Poilce Sherrif is very well portrayed.
A hostage starts to unfold in a rich family's massive top of the range house, and on top of this Willis' wife and daughter are taken hostage by different people. Quite a few twists that you don't see coming. A thorough marvellous film that will keep you at the edge of your seat from beginning to end.
A definate one to watch for all.
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