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List Price: $9.99 Our Price: $9.99 Features • Subtitled • UMD disk • Stars Bruce Willis • A cop looking for a little peace and quiet is instead thrown into a hostage crisis • The 1st English-language film from director Florent Emilio Siri In Theaters : 2005 DVD Release : 21 June, 2005 |
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Hostage (UMD Mini For PSP) description You get two hostage crises for the price of one in Hostage, an overwrought but otherwise involving thriller grounded by Bruce Willis's solid lead performance. Making a dramatic pit-stop on his way to Die Hard 4, Willis plays a traumatized former Los Angeles hostage negotiator, now working as a nearly-divorced police chief in sleepy Ventura County, California. Willis suddenly finds himself amidst two potentially deadly stand-offs when a trio of hapless teenagers seize hostages in the fortress-like home of an accountant (Kevin Pollack) whose connections to organized crime result in Willis struggling to rescue his estranged wife and daughter, who are being held hostage by faceless thugs at an undisclosed location. Having directed two of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell video games, director Florent Siri brings plenty of slick, competent filmmaking to Willis's desperate dilemma, and the film boasts a gritty, graphic style that draws attention away from implausible plot twists. The bothersome, over-the-top performances by the teenaged villains also slightly compromise this gloomy but emotionally gripping adaptation of Robert Crais's novel, named as one of Amazon.com's best books of 2001. --Jeff Shannon |
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| Hostage' delivers violence and action, but the over-dramatic and contrived plot elements don't make a lot of sense. There's a major problem when the one involved in the most suspenseful action scenes is a kid, and not Mr. Bruce Willis.
Willis is Jeff Talley, a former hostage negotiator, turned chief of police in a small California town. He finds himself in a familiar situation when a home invasion and attempted robbery is botched, and becomes a homicide and hostage situation. The involvement of an outside element, leads to Talley's wife and daughter being kidnapped as well, creating a second set of hostages. Things unravel when the home invaders turn on each other. As the high-tech mansion burns, Talley rescues the hostages, setting the stage for a slow-motion shootout with the remaining baddies, and a tearful family reunion. Another unrealistic comic book finish. Hostage' is flashy, but the lack of a credible plot and manipulative style may disappoint those that expect more. French director Forent Siri's commentary for his first American film is rather flat and simplistic, focusing on character motivation with very little technical insight. |
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