Hostage
March 12, 2005
Rated: R Runtime: 113 min Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Bruce Willis is the king of hard charging action movies with a lead character that always finds himself with his back against the wall, and this movie has Bruce pinned down quite well from beginning to end.
Hostage negotiator Jeff Talley (Willis) has retired from LA S.W.A.T. to become a small town police chief of Bristo Camino in Ventura County, to escape his past… His last job went poorly (spoiler) and he thought the change of scenery would do him and his family some good. The motto in his little precinct is “No Crime Monday is followed by No crime Tuesday… etc, etc”. That was probably a great saying until 3 scrubs in a pick-up junk decided to jack a rich dude (Pollak) for his Escalade, and kill a cop in the process thus screwing with Jeff’s day. (Willis must love characters with names that start with ‘J’)
Talley arrives on scene to find the Smith family has been taken hostage by above mentioned scrubs, and one of his officer’s shot in the driveway… From this point if you have ever seen a Bruce Willis movie you know retribution is coming forthwith so just hang in there. It would seem the scrubs chose the wrong house to jack! (the plot she thickens) Daddy is an accountant for a group of less than scrupulous individuals that want their copy of Heaven Can Wait back (spoiler) in a really bad way and, they don’t care who has to die to get it. Lucky for us John McLaine err… I mean Jeff Talley is going to save the day.
The movie is really good if you dig pointless gore and a story with more holes than Willis’ John Smith character from Last Man Standing (kick hiney movie). The acting is pretty good, especially the performance delivered by Ben Foster. He was so good he even creeped me out a time or two. Kim Coates who has shared the screen with Willis on more than one occasion (touch me again and I’ll kill ya) was pretty good and Willis was back in his old form shooting everything that moves and saving the day. You gotta love a good violent action movie to start the spring season of right and this one made the grade for me. Bullets, Bodies, ‘Splosions and plot twists. Loved it.
I just hope this is the precursor to Die Hard 4.0 because I am so there if it is. Hostage only got 4 stars because no one showed me anything pink and pointy and Bruce’s daughter Rumer was so ugly I thought that they had cast his son to play his daughter. Imagine my surprise when I found he only had 2 girls… Scary!!!
Next Stop for Bruce will be as John Hartigan (told you about the letter ‘J’) in Sin City just 3 short weeks away.
Seen it? How many stars do you give it?
(2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)
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