Available from Netflix
One more mindless hostage movie with Bruce Willis as a cop or ex-cop. Usual, fare with a little special twist which gets him caught between a rock and a hard place as a hostage negotiator. Usual Mayhem and brutality. You, of course, know what to expect in the end.
Other Review: Hostage is reasonably competent and breathlessly paced; the director, Florent Siri (who has filmed the "cut scenes" in various Tom Clancy video games), keeps things cracking. But the story, taken from a novel by Robert Crais, is by-the-numbers Hollywood crisis management. Willis is Jeff Talley, a former L.A. hostage negotiator who fails to rescue a child -- which seems to violate the unwritten rule, but it's really just a Past Trauma that explains why Jeff shaves his beard and skull and demotes himself to a desk cop in a smaller county.
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