Hostage

United States, Germany

2005

113 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

Currently 2.0/5 Stars.
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PROD Mark Gordon, Bruce Willis, Bob Yari, Arnold Rifkin

SCR Robert Crais, Doug Richardson

CAST Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jimmy Bennett, Michelle Horn, Ben Foster, Jonathan Tucker, Marshall Allman, Serena Scott Thomas, Rumer Willis, Kim Coates, Robert Knepper, Tina Lifford, Ransford Doherty, Marjean Holden, Michael D. Roberts, Art LaFleur, Randy McPherson, Hector Luis Bustamante

ED Richard Byard, Olivier Gajan

Jeff Talley, a former LAPD hostage negotiator, has moved himself away from his failed career outside of Los Angeles, and away from his wife and daughter. When a convenience store robbery goes wrong in his turf, the three perpetrators move in on an unsuspecting family. But the family’s father has a secret which might compromise his kin, and one of the criminals is about to jump over the edge. Jeff Talley has to get everybody to survive the night….. —IMDb

Director

Florent Emilio Siri

Florent Emilio Siri (born 2 March 1965 in Moselle) is a French film director born in Lorraine.

He studied cinema at the Sorbonne University and ESRA in Paris.

He began his feature film career with the 1998 social film Une minute de silence (One minute of silence), and continued in 2002 with the action film Nid de guêpes (The Nest), and then went on to serve as director of two critically acclaimed and highly successful Splinter Cell games at French-based video game developer Ubisoft, titled Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.

Following the underground success of his first feature film, Siri’s directorial style caught the eye of actor Bruce Willis, who asked Siri to direct his big-budget 2005 action thriller Hostage. While not a big commercial success, the film earned considerable critical praise of Siri’s slick direction, calling it “an art house version of the Die Hard films.”

In 2007, he released a film called L’Ennemi intime… read more