Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 155
Fresh: 55 | Rotten: 100
Grisly and cliched, audiences may feel they're being held Hostage.
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 30
Grisly and cliched, audiences may feel they're being held Hostage.
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Average Rating: 3.3/5
User Ratings: 194,768
A failed police negotiator turned small town cop, must save the lives of a family held hostage, which draws him into a much more dangerous situation.
R, 1 hr. 42 min.
Mar 11, 2005 Wide
Jun 21, 2005
$34.6M
Miramax Films
All Critics (164) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (58) | Rotten (101) | DVD (33)
Visually stylish but highly improbable.
Hostage is all the pulp thriller Bruce Willis movies you've seen before.
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.
A tired formula.
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.
For action movie fans who require just a touch of depth and mystery between gunshots, Hostage could make for a satisfying night at the movies.
Very violent hostage drama.
This is one movie that would be incomplete without a soda, some popcorn, and a box of chocolate covered something.
Reasonably competent and breathlessly paced.
Mostly a nerve jangling thriller, but you know there's something not quite right about a movie when you're wondering more about why such a plush mansion on fire doesn't have a better sprinkler system.
Mostly a nerve jangling thriller, but you know there's something not quite right about a movie when you're wondering more about why such a plush mansion on fire doesn't have a better sprinkler system.
It revels in a sort of operatic vulgarity. And once the story exhausts its over-the-top cheesiness, there are still a few loose ends to tie up, and so the film drags on.
It's about as meaningful as a pile of clichés.
Estamos ante una historia interesante, en la que los personajes dejan de ser las caricaturas habituales de siempre para convertirse en seres humanos reales.
Run of the mill Bruce Willis action flick and I love me some Bruce Willis so it was definitely a good time. I did feel like this was an older movie, not sure if that's a good thing or not.
October 2, 2009Super Reviewer
Not as bad as I thought it would be but it suffers from having annoying kids in it and a very overused storyline.
September 21, 2009Super Reviewer
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