HOSTAGE review thread...
 

I'm submitting that Ben Foster and Jonathan Tucker are nearly the two worst actors in young Hollywood.

Discuss.

As fans of Ben Foster (I was a fan of Flash Forward back in the day) and Jonathan Tucker (I am a huge fan of 100 Girls), I don't know how to respond to you. I'll wait until I see the movie to make any comments.

:)

Taking into account our relationship here on the board, I'm just gonna mark you down as a "disagree."

:) Aww, you know I love you Shelton. ;)

This movie was directed by someone whose previous work is video games. That's all I needed to know.

Howard Stern keeps promoting this movie saying, "Bruce Willis is back in his Die Hard form...".

Was this movie script originally supposed to be Die Hard 4?

Not that I'm aware of. He's playing the same type of tortured, reluctant hero though. It's a very John McClaneish role.

The Berardinelli gives it 3 stars: :up: http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/h/hostage.html

MetaCritic

That is just a canned line he has to say when promoting the movie for when he gives away prize money.

Ebert's 3-star review here

I saw this film earlier tonight and all in all I really enjoyed it.
It was a good popcorn flick. - No regrets here. :)

I really liked it.

I think the 'bad guy' in the movie was one of the most evil villians I've seen in a long, long, time.

And when

Good stuff.

One glaring plot hole...

I'll probably check this out today. Didn't even hear of this until recently.

I was pretty disappointed with this movie -- the trailer had me really anticipating it, too. I enjoy Willis a lot, but the story was pretty cliched. And I agree with Scott about Jonathan Tucker -- extremely poor performance and he annoyed me to no end.

I liked it. I knew nothing before I saw it. As for the ending:

This film feels like Die Hard flipped around, with Bruce Willis playing the cop on the outside, trying to talk a small boy through the worst night of his life as he and his dad and sister are held hostage after things go haywire, and the 3 bad guys are stuck in a messy situation.

Motivations are reinforced, and propel the characters through a night where nothing goes right for the characters involved. There is a bit of over-emoting on Willis's part in spots, and there is some pretty so-so overwrought acting from the bad guys. But as the film makes it way through the twists and turns, it's never boring, but the ending needed a little more tweaking in my eyes.

I give it 3 stars, or a grade of B.

I totally dug the Alien and Crow visual references.

Had to see it because my girl is a huge Willis fan. Didn't love it, but I liked it a lot considering I don't care for action movies. I thought it was solid all the way up until the climax, which felt forced to start blowing stuff up and having loud noises to qualify it as an action thriller.

I liked it alot... one of the better films I have seen this year so far. I liked the visuals and style the director brought. Good acting from Willis. He needs to stick to this kinda film and not comedies of recent past.

I liked it quite a bit. Alot of tense moments. I will say one thing, Rumor Willis didn't get her mom's looks. Bow wow.

Didn't realize it was her in the movie.

Don't be too quick to judge though. Willis was on Ellen a few days ago, and when Ellen showed a family picture, she was trying to figure out who was missing, but Demi was. Rumor was a dead ringer for her in that picture anyway.

i just saw this movie over the weekend and enjoyed myself alot. like someone said earlier, it's a great popcorn movie.

i couldn't help thinking the kid would be great as bean in ender's game if it ever makes it to film.

I'm assuming the Alien ref you speak of was ... and The Crow ref was what?