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Genres:
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Action /
Drama /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Taylor Hackford
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Actors:
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Meg Ryan,
Pamela Reed,
Anthony Heald,
Michael Kitchen,
Gottfried John,
Mario Ernesto Sánchez,
Pietro Sibille,
Vicky Hernández,
Russell Crowe,
David Morse,
David Caruso,
Stanley Anderson,
Alun Armstrong,
Margo Martindale,
Norma Martínez
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Duration:
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130 min.
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Rating:
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(6.1/10)80.5
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Plot Summary:
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In a mountainous South American hinterlands, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US manoeuvre who works seeking an oil band's subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman's wife Alice begs him to abide. She and Peter's sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks release terms with the loot-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is prolonged nigh a photo of Alice. When the politics of the job change-over, so... be obliged Thorne's policy. And what can Alice and he do respecting the attraction growing between them?
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How disappointing
This film is only interesting if you are avid fans of both Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe, because the story was so slow and boring, flawed even, that it pained me to watch it through to the end. What was really silly was the fact the Crowe's character, an ex-SAS type, spent 3 months negotiating with the terrorists just once a week in Ryan's house on a Wednesday night for 3 months before finally getting his mates together and assaulting the terrorist camp and liberating the hostage. You would also think that with all that time on their hands, the romance between Ryan and Crowe would be explored in the remaining 6 days of the week when they were not negotiating, but alas no - but we are expected to believe their feelings nonetheless when they go their separate ways. Oh come on!
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