Hostage 2/5
Bruce Willis plays a local hero chief of police in a small LA burb. Three misguided youth, who survive by stealing cars, chance upon a Cadillac SUV and an unsuspecting father, adolescent son and ripe teenage daughter. The daughter brushes off their vulgar advances, setting the ring leader off. They follow the family to their remote, ultra-luxurious, fortress-like home and get violent with the father to reclaim their respect, before taking off with the Caddy. At least, that was their simple plan.
Things take a turn for the worse and a hostage situation ensues.
But wait, didn’t the previews make it look like our hero was fighting against criminals who took his own family hostage? The twist that makes sense of the previews, doesn’t save this derivative, gratuitously violent film from being a dud.
Remember the first Die Hard film that catapulted Bruce Willis to stardom 17 years ago? Don’t believe the hype that Hostage even begins to compare to it.
In Die Hard, you had vacationing cop John McClane running around inside a massive skyscraper. In Hostage, you’ve got a kid hiding in the crawl space and communicating with the cops. A clear rip off. The bad guys in Hostage are also emotionally disturbed social deviants high on testosterone, save for the youngest one, who was supposed to wait in the car while the other two stole the Caddy.
This isn’t a film that I would see again.
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Article comments
1 - narciso
If you have a complaint, take it up with Robert Crais; who wrote the book
2 - UhHello
narciso:
Why blame the author? How about blaming the idiot who thought this book could be turn into a movie? Oh wait, that person or persons (producers) were probably looking to make some cash instead of trying to put together an interesting movie. Not that you are.
I don't buy the "blame the guy who wrote the book" argument. The author isn't responsible for turning a book into a movie.
3 - Triniman
I agree with UhHello. The team who turned the book into a movie, are responsible.
Hopefully, savvy film fans will avoid this film.
4 - david hume
have a new theory, i hope the USA media picks it up. I believe that Nichols “date raped” this woman who read the Bible to him. What I mean is this: he raped her inside her apartment, after taking a shower (naked) while she was on the floor of the bathroom, tied up. get it? he came out of the show, raped her, and then she became his angel. in other words, she didn’t want to die, she didn’t mind being raped if it meant she could live. that is why she gave the second press conference on CNN yesterday. She was raped by Nichols. and that is why she is so emotinally messed up right now. Look, friends, there is no God, there is no Jesus, and no angels. Nichols is in deep doodoo, the “angel’ who read the bible and a purpose driven life to him, chapter 33, she is in deep denial about what really happened. she will go on to become national hero, Bible thumper, richly rewarded, marry rich man, live happily unhappily ever after. she was raped, friends. what this story unfold.