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moviecritic writes, ""Hostage" starts off with a bang after some stylish but familiar opening credits (I'm looking your way "Panic Room"). Opening on a bushy-bearded Bruce Willis smack dab in the middle of a tense L.A. hostage situation, the film sets off on the right foot of suspense, catastrophe, and thriller theatrics. The picture appears to understand its straightforward charms, utilizing highly charged anxiety for a rock 'em, sock 'em launch that promises so much. Eventually, "Hostage" splits into three movies. "
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For Bruce Willis, "Hostage" returns the actor to the genre of his best work. Jeff Talley is a character not unlike "Die Hard" hero John McClane; a role that digs deep into psychological readings as well as guns o' plenty. Willis is great here as the tortured cop, but his performance is more in the reluctant hero vein, while Siri, as mentioned before, is making a completely different movie. Willis's performance simmers down to standard run-n-shoot style theatrics, but his insistence that "Hostage" isn't a Wes Craven movie keeps the emotional suspense engaging. The same cannot be said of the criminal performances in the picture, with Brando wannabes Ben Foster and Jonathan Tucker performing like it was their first day at acting school. Spittle-drenched and gorged with brood, Foster and Tucker add an unexpected comedic element to the film with their wildly over-the-top performances, which immediately strips them of threat, and punishes an unsuspecting audience that is forced to sit in their seats for 110 minutes watching these boys try to out-act each other with silly tics and drool.
The final "Hostage" is seen through composer Alexandre Desplat's welcomingly thunderous score; except Desplat might be under the impression that he's scoring a James Bond action film. The frantic music in "Hostage" goes above and beyond the call of duty, assisting Siri in his quest to create a mixture of different manners and moods to the picture. It's solid work, but at times I expected Sean Connery to drive up in an Aston Martin.
The last 30 minutes of "Hostage" is a terribly busy bore, and does an excellent job of creating a bad taste to a film that isn't a complete washout and a decent genre exercise. If one could mentally match up the three movies being made here, that would certainly help "Hostage's" chances for entertainment.
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Posted on Mar 13, 2005 12:23pm.
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