Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 14, 2005 | | Summary | Big screenplay plot problems | Content
 | 1. Audience doesn't care whether Talley's wife and daughter live or die. The wife doesn't love him much and the annoying daughter is a loser. Audience likes Walter Martin's kids much better.
2. Three thugs are just too young and not inspiring fear. Even the silly stupid Mars was ludicrous as a madman. He just looked like a geek playing a mad man.
3. Willis negotiating for money makes no sense as a ploy, and these black-booted thugs make no sense as to the lengths they'll go.
It was not boring, I'll give it that. There was action. But I really wasn't inspired to give a damn whether Talley's wife lived or died in the end. I almost hoped they died and he'd go off on his own and start a Hostage trilogy.
Just a ridiculous uninspiring premise. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 12, 2005 | | Summary | Unexpected Turns | Content
| This is the usual exciting, riveting, visually-stunning-effects- and-well-acted-film-with-a-good-plot-and-story that I expect from Bruce Willis. So it was a pleasure just to sit back and let the movie roll! It is worth watching a couple more times and then giving it to friends who not only appreciate War and Peace but also love fast-paced action films |
| Rating | | | Date | August 09, 2005 | | Summary | Been there done that ....... | Content
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We've all seen movies such as "Hostage" played out time and time and time again......
A cop with a traumatic experience from his past has settled down and taken on less responsibility, only now to find himself in another tense situation that not only endangers the life of more innocent victims, but also his family's lives as well.
Of course, the events now occuring force the cop to relive and work through those old painful memories.....giving our title character (Bruce Willis) one more chance to do right whereas he failed so miserably before.
If you haven't seen "Hostage" and you have read this far, you can pretty much guess how it all wraps up .....
Formulaic and generic to say the least, "Hostage" is a somewhat entertaining movie of recycled bits that have been made and remade time and time again.
Although it's hardly original, "Hostage" isn't necessarily boring, and it does prove itself to be watchable.
However, this reviewer felt somewhat of a hostage himself, mentally pleading with my DVD player to "LET ME GO" about halfway into the films run.
Redundant and cyclical, "Hostage" is only worth a viewing if you have nothing new or better to do for 2hrs out of your day. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 08, 2005 | | Summary | I liked it! | Content
| Bruce Willis is a former hostage negotiator from L.A. turned small town sheriff who finds himself dealing with a hostage situation in his new job. A mob accountant is followed home by street scum, they hold him and his family hostage and the mob holds the sheriff's family hostage until they get their hands on evidence that could land them in prison. Now, the burnout negotiator must renew his skills and confidence to try to save his own family.
Lots of action, I rate it a 5 star effort. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 07, 2005 | | Summary | Willis goes head on with the bad guys in Hostage | Content
| Bruce Willis (Sin City, Pulp Fiction) stars in this hardcore action movie about a negotiator who has to make a choice. He has to save another family to save his own family in the process who are being held captive by corrupt FBI agents. Inside the residence of actor Kevin Pollack (The Usual Suspects, The Whole Nine and Ten Yards), his son and his daughter are being held hostage by 3 kids, 2 played by Jonathan Tucker (The Deep End) and Ben Foster (Big Trouble, Get Over It). Things happen that alter situations and forces Willis to go head on with both the corrupt agents and the punk kids inside the house. Also starring Kim Coates (Black Hawk Down, ExChange). Some people might like this movie, which in the case I did but some might find the language and the really hardcore scenes to be a little extreme. |
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