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http://urllio.com/r1m0mWhen a family is held hostage, former hostage negotiator Jeff Talley arrives at the scene. Talley's own family is kidnapped and Talley must decide which is more important: saving a family he doesn't even know or saving his own family.
Devastated by a failed hostage situation which resulted in the deaths of a young mother and her child, LAPD negotiator Jeff Talley exits Los Angeles for a no profile job as chief of police in the low crime hamlet of Bristo Camino, a small town in Ventura County. When three delinquent teenagers follow home a family intending to steal their car, they have inadvertently picked the wrong house on the wrong day. The trio find themselves trapped in a multi-million dollar compound on the outskirts of town, owned by an accountant working for a mysterious crime enterprise. Panicked, the teenagers take the family hostage, placing Talley in exactly the kind of situation he never wanted to face again. Soon after, Talley readily hands authority of the hostage situation over to the Ventura County Sheriffs Department and leaves the scene. Meanwhile, inside the compound is digital information, which is time sensitive and invaluable to the mysterious criminals and critical to their enterprise. They will stop at nothing to get what belongs to them. Talley is forced to resume the command he abandoned, where the stakes quickly evolve into a hostage situation far more volatile and terrifying than anything he could ever imagine.
It's not really worth going on about the plot of this movie or, really, anything else about it. Three kids enter a house and take the pater familias and his two young children hostage. Willis is the negotiator for the "Bristol Camino" Police Department. If you can get past the improbable name for the community, a macaronic hybrid of Olde Englishe and Spanish, maybe you'll find the rest of the movie rewarding in a way I didn't.<br/><br/>Points of originality. While trying to extricate the hostage family from its opulent household, Willis learns that his OWN family has been taken hostage by a group of embezzlers who want to recover evidence against themselves from the house of the hostage family. Are you following this, so far? The point is that instead of one menace to Willis's mind and body, you will now have three: (1) the young kids who invaded the house in the first place; (2) the criminal enterprise that doesn't want the evidence to get into the wrong hands; and (3) the chief hood, dressed and masked entirely in black, who leads the team of the criminal enterprise in their attempt to make sure they recover the incriminating evidence, which appears to have been recorded on a CD hidden within the keep case of a DVD of a movie called "Heaven Can Wait." Why -- you, the discerning viewer ask -- must there be three antagonists? Well, because that provides for three action climaxes. Or, rather, one climax preceded by a penultimate climax preceded by an antepenultimate climax. That last word means "third from last." I had to look it up in the dictionary. Two of the climaxes end in full body burns and bullet holes. I wasn't awake for the last.<br/><br/>Something, though, that I found myself missing. What happened to the car chase? Oh, sure, there is cliché after cliché in this stultifyingly dumb action movie. (The writers must have been proud of thinking up the line, "I know you're scared," because they use it three times.) But no action movie is complete without a CAR CHASE. The best this one can do is have Willis jam on the brakes of his speeding police van with "Bristol Camino" painted prominently on its door, and the van spins around like an ice skater doing a butterfly jump.<br/><br/>This is full of suspense and thrills -- and that's all. Want to see a good movie about "hostage situations"? Rent "Dog Day Afternoon."
Hostage is the film adaptation of the Robert Crais book of the same name. This is the second standalone book by Crais, the author of the Elvis Cole detective series. The movie deviates slightly from the book, but since Crais assisted with the screenplay, the changes are minor and don't impact the story.<br/><br/>The film opens with a flashback to a year ago when hostage negotiator Jeff Talley, played by a rough-looking Bruce Willis. He looks here like Mickey Rourke in one of his seedier roles. Due to his desire that 'no one dies today', Talley misjudges a hostage situation and loses everyone in the house, including the gunman. Next, it's a year later, and Talley, now looking like the familiar Willis, is the Chief of Police in small town Bristo Camino.<br/><br/>After an armed robbery and car-jacking, two brothers, played by Jonathon Tucker and Marshall Allman, and their darkly sinister friend, Mars, played by Ben Foster, decide to steal an Escalade driven to a mansion on the outskirts of town. What starts as a simple car theft escalates into murder and kidnapping, and Talley is once again drawn into a hostage situation.<br/><br/>Ben Foster, looking a bit like a young Sean Penn, nails his role as the baddest of the bad guys (well, until some other bad guys show up), and makes you cringe every time he skulks onto the screen. Willis is in a role familiar to Die Hard fans, but this one is much darker and more human, but without the touch of humor he usually brings to his roles.<br/><br/>The plot twists and tension intertwine and build while Talley's own family become hostages, he loses and regains control of the crime scene, other villains, who may or may not be FBI agents show up, and young Jimmy Bennet steals scenes as a young hostage. If the climax of the first hostage situation wasn't enough, the action isn't over as Talley has to get his own family out of harm's way.<br/><br/>This movie is very well written, and directed, and the cast is almost flawless. Kevin Pollak, as one of the hostages does a great job, but it's hard to watch a comedian in a dramatic role without waiting for a punch line. Nonetheless, this is a great action film and I highly recommend it.
Take a tired formula...Stir with a director, Florent Siri, who has no shame about stealing every sadistic suspense trick from the Die Hard series. Serve to a gullible audience willing to pay top dollar for secondhand goods.
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