Review: Hostage
Director: Florent Emilio Siri
Hostage was a watchable film, but that is as far as I am going to go with it being anywhere near "good." The casting was perfect, despite the fact that I am not a fan of Bruce Willis at all. Ben Foster, who plays the character Mars in this film, was prefectly cast as this psycho killer teenager. He really got across the point that the character was just inheriently evil, and they made him convincingly scary. (This kid was once a Disney channel star, now he is shooting cops in the face?...)
The film has a good plot twist that most generic hostage movies don't in that they force Willis' chracter to work for himself to save the family, because someone has mysteriously kidnapped his and held THEM hostage for something inside the main house. Confused? As was I as the end credits rolled and I knew not what was so damn important on the DVD the kidnappers wanted (an offshore account number? please...) or WHO THEY WERE. They are (obviously) killed in the end and Willis and his family, who were just put through hell, don't want to know who they were? Uh yeah...fuck that.
A rewview I read of this movie called it "a steaming pile of cliches." That just about sums it up. Watchable, but wait til video and save the 10 bucks.
Reviewed by: Stalker's Rage, added March 23 2005
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