Hostage

[Brian in Mesa]

Hostage

Release Date: January 21, 2005
Studio: Miramax Films
Director: Florent Siri
Screenwriter: Robert Crais
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller


Starring: Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollack, Ben Foster, Jonathan Tucker, Serena Scott Thomas, Marshall Allman, Michelle Horn, Jimmy Bennett, Rumer Willis

Plot Summary: Robert Crais adapted his book for the film in which Willis stars as Jeff Talley, an LAPD hostage negotiator, who must call upon his negotiating skills to save his kidnapped wife and daughter (played in the film by Willis' real-life daughter Rumer) from the mob.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Bump...not getting the best reviews. Moved back a few weeks from it's original release date too.

 

[Renz]

Isn't Lindsay Lohan in this too?

 

[PDXChris]

I saw it the other time, Bruce was his usual self, which was great, but the story itself was ok, but overall a good movie.

 

[Chaplin]

Our LA Weekly paper here (like New Times in Phx) gave the movie a really good review--strange because it's such an artsy type of paper (like New Times again).

 

[Russ Smith]

I watched this last night and was surprisingly impressed. Not going to win any awards mind you but it's a good movie. It's got some Die hard and even some Panic Room in it, but it's not predictable to the point where you know what's going to happen early on, it's enteraining. It's quite violent, not for the faint of heart, but even my girlfriend liked it and during the opening credits she was saying "I already can tell I'm not going to like this."

the kid that plays Mars is pretty creepy. And for prison break fans both Teabag, and the son of the guy on Death Row are both in the movie.

 

[Bada0Bing]

I saw this a while ago. I wasn’t expecting much for some reason, I guess that the plot just didn’t sound very good. However, I thought it was pretty good. It kept me interested the entire time. I agree about the Mars guy, he was very creepy.