A rare Bruce Willis movie that I have never seen.Willis plays a ex hostage negotiator burnt out from failing his last case. Now he's a chief of police in some small hick town where crime does not happen. So guess what happens? crime. Three rowdy ruff boys (One played by a younger Ben Foster), get flip the bird by a rich chick and of course they can't let that go and end up taking her and her family hostage, in what turned out to be the most dramatic gun fight I've seen, and now I'm totally invested in watching this movie, which is worth it when it turns they pick the wrong family to mess with, and Willis has to get his head back into the game to get it all under control.The movie is cleaver in it's delivery. Trying not to fall into the heroic clichés we see in movies. Bruce Willis plays a man completely dedicated to his family and not the job, but unfortunately the job is dedicated to him, and as such, twist and turns within the film keep pulling him back into the mix just when he was close to getting out.This is a really good Bruce Willis movie too. Not really what you expect and yet everything you need from Bruce Willis. Lots of Drama and suspense and very action packed. Some of the action is a little corny as it goes over the top, but still it does the trick. Bruce gets to play a dramatic role as he goes crazy trying to get the job done because as the movie progress he has more invested in the whole thing.Very surprise that I've never seen this one before, it's actually a really good picture.http://cinemagardens.com

A good story if you can get past the ridiculous affirmative action casting, racial role reversals, and typical Christian bashing. Possible Spoiler Alert:The story takes place in a wealthy white area. However, the police captain is a black woman. The bad guy home invaders are white. They shoot a black woman police officer. The opening scene shows a white man holding his family hostage. He then recites from the bible, saying his Christian God wants him to send his family to heaven, then murders his wife and son. Too bad Jewish Hollywood is allowed to put this mind poison in almost every movie. When was the last time you saw a movie with a Jew quoting Jewish scripture before slaughtering his family? When have you seen a child molesting Rabbi in a movie? How many Catholic priests are portrayed that way?

Bruce Willis does what he can do best, and that's be John McClane. And John McClane he becomes. Comparisons are drawn instantly because differences are hard to find. Jeff Talley (Willis), now a humdrum cop after a bodged negotiating job, must negotiate his way through a new hostage crisis. A middle class family are being held in their house by some lower class youths looking to score themselves some money, and get at those they deem better than them. Tensions run high both inside and outside the house. Jeff's family is being held hostage as well, which thins out the main story. Things go awry when one of the youths, played by Ben Foster, goes crazy. His change in mentality is absurd, even if a little entertaining. It doesn't fit Hostage's composition. At least McClane's around to sort the mess out.

This just wasn't a very good story line to begin with. It seemed like the main point of the director was to scare the audience and to show a lot of people getting killed. Two sets of bad guys really!Bruce Willis's character wasn't up to the usual Bruce Willis style which is a lot tougher.Really if I hadn't been doing something else worthwhile during the time I had this playing I might have just turned it off.I give it 4 stars out of 10 just because there was some action in the movie. I think the story should have been rejected but the director made an even bigger mess out of the story.