Rotten
A tired formula.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Hostage
Every second counts.
2005 · 1h 53m · R
Action, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Florent-Emilio Siri
Overview
When a mafia accountant is taken hostage on his beat, a police officer – wracked by guilt from a prior stint as a negotiator – must negotiate the standoff, even as his own family is held captive by the mob.
Director and cast
- Florent-Emilio Siri Director
- Bruce Willis as Jeff Talley
- Ben Foster as Mars Krupcheck
- Jonathan Tucker as Dennis Kelly
- Jimmy Bennett as Tommy Smith
- Michelle Horn as Jennifer Smith
- Marshall Allman as Kevin Kelly
- Kevin Pollak as Walter Smith
- Rumer Willis as Amanda Talley
- Robert Knepper as Wil Bechler
- Kim Coates as The Watchman
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
35%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Visually stylish but highly improbable.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Rotten
Hostage is all the pulp thriller Bruce Willis movies you've seen before.
Rex Reed, New York Observer
Rotten
I thought, this is going to be a first-rate thriller, nobody plays that kind of character better than Bruce Willis, he's great at that. And then it just gets more and more complicated and more and more ridiculous.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
Speaking of torture, if you dig it, by all means lock yourself up for two hours with Hostage, which begins by administering electric shocks to your viscera and keeps upping the voltage.
David Edelstein, Slate
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