Hostage

Never should have opened the envelope. This movie, a 2005 release directed by Florent Emilio Siri is characterized loosely as a crime thriller. The story is about an LA negotiator policeman that has lost a family to a nut. The cop moves to the country to get away from crime and is working on a local force. Naturally a hostage situation develops, but with special twists, the victim is a mob accountant and the mob want is money so it kidnaps the cops wife and daughter to increase the pressure. Of course it all goes to shit, the mob guys get killed, local hoods get killed and the incredibly lucky Jeff Talley gets his family back. There are only a couple of innocent bystanders killed, all in all a crappy yet tidy story.

• Bruce Willis plays the lead as Jeff Talley a middle aged burned out Los Angeles hostage negotiator, who has moved to a small town and its police station.
• Kevin Pollak plays home owner Walter Smith, an accountant whose crooked clients complicate the situation. Pollak's best work came in the 1995 hit The Usual Suspects.
• Michelle Horn play Jennifer Smith, daughter of the homeowner. In the last twelve years Michelle has been very busy in television, mostly as guests on serial cop shows.
• Ben Foster plays Mars Krupcheck the quiet abductor with an evil side that comes to bare. Foster was excellent in 3:10 to Yuma.

IMDb rating on this movies was 6.7 out of 10, this must be based solely on the opinions of Bruce Willis fans because I don't see it. You should not see a movie this I score so low at 11 of 50, a real piece of crap.

• Character Development 3 out of 10. There are many places where depth should have been depth added and was not.
• Acting 3 out of 10. Lackluster, Bruce Willis mailed it in.
• Photography, cinematography 2 of 10. The fire scene at the big finish was nearly as silly as the end of Firestarter.
• Writing , script 2 out of 10. Unintelligible.
• Concept 1 out of 10. Why, why, why.