Hostage (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: February 23, 2021
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Miramax
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bruce Willis & Kevin Pollak | |
Performer: | Tina Lifford, Kim Coates, Marjean Holden, Michelle Horn, Johnny Messner, Jimmy Bennett, Ben Foster, Serena Scott Thomas & Jonathan Tucker | |
Directed by | Florent Emilio Siri | |
Screenplay by | Doug Richardson | |
Original story by | Robert Crais | |
Composition by | Alexandre Desplat | |
Produced by | Arnold Rifkin, Bob Yari, Richard D. Zanuck, Mark Gordon & Bruce Willis | |
Director of Photography: | Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci |
Entertainment Reviews:
Visually stylish but highly improbable.
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Observer
Rating: 3/5 --
Reasonably competent and breathlessly paced.
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eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 1.5/5 --
chaotic and clichéd
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Filmcritic.com
Rating: C- --
It's about as meaningful as a pile of clichés.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 2/4 --
It revels in a sort of operatic vulgarity. And once the story exhausts its over-the-top cheesiness, there are still a few loose ends to tie up, and so the film drags on.
Christianity Today
HOSTAGE exemplifies taut, confident filmmaking. Bruce Willis draws upon the full measure of his strong physical presence, his intelligence and his considerable emotional resources held in reserve.
Los Angeles Times
Hostage is all the pulp thriller Bruce Willis movies you've seen before.
Observer
Product Description:
This well-made thriller harkens back to the gritty crime films of the 1970s. Bruce Willis plays Jeff Talley, a traumatized ex-LAPD hostage negotiator whose new career as small town sheriff doesn't turn out to be as restful as he had hoped; a hostage situation breaks out on "low crime Tuesday" and he is thrown right back into the business he knows all too well. Some punk kids have shot a cop and are holed up in a local mansion inhabited by crooked accountant Walter Smith (Kevin Pollak), his two kids, and a lot of surveillance cameras. Walter's young son (Jimmy Bennett) escapes his bonds and reports to Talley from the air shafts via his sister's cell phone. The sister--a Goth teen played by Michelle Horn--draws the romantic attention of Mars (Ben Foster), the pot-addled sociopath in the gang, thus adding a unique twist to the damsel-in-distress factor. Meanwhile, amid the buzzing helicopters and mobilizing S.W.A.T. teams, another group of bad guys has kidnapped Talley's wife and daughter, in order to force him to retrieve a secret disc in Walter's study. Florent Siri's efficient direction keeps the action flowing in unexpected directions while allowing for plenty of interesting procedural details and sly bits of humor. The score is ominous and the performances are strong, with Foster memorably creepy and Willis excellent as the frightened hero.
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- Sales Rank: 25,113
- UPC: 032429351753
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