Where results make sense

About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us

Topic: Hostage (film)

    Note: these results are not from the primary (high quality) database.

DVDActive - News - Releases - Hostage (US - R1) I thought this film was going to suck but after a barrage of TV spots, I think Hostage looks great. The preview made this film look so bad, but between the medicore critics reviews and the excellent audience reviews I have heard that HOSTAGE is a good movie. Hostage was okay, Sin City was above average at least, Mr. www.dvdactive.com /news/releases/hostage.html   (1286 words)

IGN: Hostage Crisis at Paramount The trade paper reminds us that Guests of the Ayatollah will be "the first studio film about the crisis that occurred when Iranian students stormed the American embassy in 1979 and held its staff hostage for 444 days. November 24, 2003 - Variety reports that Paramount Pictures is developing Guests of the Ayatollah, a film about the Iranian hostage crisis based on an upcoming book by Black Hawk Down author Mark Bowden. The standoff didn't end until a day after the inauguration of Ronald Reagan in January 1981; the remaining 52 hostages were freed after the U.S. unfroze $8 billion in Iranian assets. filmforce.ign.com /articles/441/441921p1.html   (267 words)

Hostages Although it is "reality-based" and mixes actual news footage with the dramatized events, a disclaimer at the beginning makes it clear that the incidents and dialogue in the film are "based on publicly available material, interviews with former hostages, their friends and relatives, diplomats and politicians from the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Although the film depends on an ensemble, McCarthy and Keenan (Ciaran Hinds) are used to most vividly portray the daily human plight of the hostages, and the pair has the most screen time. McCarthy, Keenan, Anderson, and Waite all signed an open letter that appeared in the press just before the film was first shown on British television. www.friendsoffirth.com /rolespage/hostages.html   (2077 words)

Colin Firth in Hostages Shut off from all news and contact with anyone other than their jailers and other brit and american hostages, the film focuses on the unlikely friendship that developes between John and Brian: one an easy-going upper class brit, the other a proud irish scholar with a workingclass background. The film is a drama-documentary based on the hostage's story as told via interviews, articles and books after their releases. ABOUT THE FILM: The british TV reporter John McCarthy was 1985 working in Beirut, covering the kidnapping of the Irish University teacher Brian Keenan, when John himself was kidnapped and eventually put in the same "cell" as Brian. www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Cinema/1280/hostages.html   (598 words)

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Hostage at Epinions.com Hostage is the type of film that is easy to sit back and watch, because there is never a dull moment in the story. With Hostage, it looked like Willis was taking a step back into the dramatic thriller that has garnered him such success, and it looked like just the type of film that I would enjoy him best in. Being in his jurisdiction, Talley is the man in charge of breaking down the hostage negotiations, but he decides it best to defer control over to the county Sheriff's office. www.epinions.com /content_176847097476   (1235 words)

WRAL.com - Entertainment - Harrison Ford Ignites Emotions In 'Firewall' In an effort to avoid any repetition seen in any hostage thrillers that preceded it, the filmmakers of "Firewall" had to douse any sorts of plot conventions that made it feel familiar to the audience, and they do so with the film's examination of computer crime. In "Firewall," new in theaters Friday, Ford plays Jack Stanfield, a bank security expert who's forced to break into the security system he designed after a criminal mastermind (Paul Bettany) takes his wife (Virginia Madsen) and two young kids (Carly Schroeder and Jimmy Bennett) hostage. "Firewall" wouldn't be complete, of course, without some classic Harrison Ford butt-kicking moments, and it this case, he goes head-to-head with Paul Bettany at remote wooded hideaway. www.wral.com /entertainment/6844798/detail.html   (899 words)

"Firewall" - Film Reviews The film stars Harrison Ford as a bank security executive who is forced to rob the bank he works for when his family is taken hostage by a group of criminals led by Paul Bettany ("A Beautiful Mind"). Harrison Ford proves that even after 30 years of making movies, he still is not too old to play the hero anymore, and Bettany does an equally nice job playing opposite him as the cold-hearted villain who takes his family hostage. "Firewall" is little more than your average sub-par thriller; there is nothing special about it and offers little to the imagination. www.bgnews.com /news/2006/02/24/FilmReviews/firewall-1637105.shtml   (258 words)

Aljazeera.Net - Chechnya film fete blocked The other offending films were from Britain's Channel Four television: "Terror in Moscow", about last year's hostage crisis in a Moscow theatre in which 129 people died after special forces used gas to stun the hostage-takers, and "Babitsky's War", about a Russian reporter in Chechnya who was kidnapped by the secret The films provide graphic and sometimes harrowing accounts of the war in Chechnya as seen through the eyes of local people, Russian soldiers sent to the republic to enforce the Kremlin's rule, and their parents. Moreover the films were "pure politics, and we are apolitical. english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/A99059A5-FD6F-4CED-B5EF-093B6F56E89A.htm   (644 words)

DVD Review: SWAT The film opens with a shootout and a hostage situation that is intentionally reminiscent of the infamous North Hollywood bank robbery. This group does stray from the film a bit to discuss more the nature of writing in Hollywood, but this isn't a bad thing as their comments are generally interesting. There are villains in the film and they are appropriately villainous, but they never seem to exist for the single-minded purpose of giving the good guys someone to fight. www.dvddude.net /a_to_z/reviews/swat.php   (1686 words)

DVD Talk > Reviews > The Enforcer > Printer Friendly The shades of green and brown that appear throughout the film are of the sort that only existed in the 1970's, and though the palette overall seems somewhat muted, this is in keeping with the vast majority of similar efforts from the same era. The action is well-executed, aside from an excruciatingly long foot chase, though The Enforcer is unable to sustain the heights of its excellent opening hostage sequence. Harry Callahan, shortly after arriving at a situation where a group of thugs were holding a shopkeeper and three of his patrons hostage, was informed that the crooks demanded a get-away car equipped with a police radio. www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=3339   (985 words)

Amazon.com: Hostage (2005): DVD Florent Siri's Hostage is not a perfect film and at times its increasing tension without any form of release can be unbearable to some people, but it succeeds well enough as a thriller. From this moment on Hostage would've turned into a by-the-numbers hostage thriller, but Richardson's screenplay ratchets things up by forcing Willis' character back into the negotiator's role as shadowy character who remain hooded and faceless throughout the film kidnap his wife and daughter. Hostage, directed by Florent Emilio Siri, has an interesting display of the opening credits through a vignette portraying the city of Los Angeles in black and gray while the sky is crimson red. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009ETCUQ?v=glance   (3480 words)

The Aisle Seat - Hostage The very thing that makes Hostage so good is the very same thing that may likely kill its chances at the box office: this film goes to some dark places. Hostage is rated R for strong graphic violence, language and some drug use. Unfortunately, Hostage loses some plausibility as it goes on; however, the movie continues to work because, even in the most unlikely scenes, it achieves a sense of eerie intensity. www.geocities.com /gamut_mag/hostage.htm   (1023 words)

Hostage What I'm saying is that Hostage exploits our instinct to protect and fear for children--our desire to keep them from getting stabbed in the face and/or raped, for instance--for the sole purpose of providing Willis with the opportunity to have one of the most unintentionally hilarious crying scenes in the brief history of film. Maybe "terror cell" applies to the filmmakers, as "hostage situation" pretty accurately describes the experience of being trapped in a theatre watching Hostage. On the flipside, Hostage isn't patriotic; it's grim and nihilistic and excreted from a masterplots machine that finds John McClane transmogrified into ticking-off-the-numbers John Talley, and his cowboy motto twisted into the inscrutable "Captain Wooba is gonna save Planet Xenon." Doesn't exactly get the blood pounding in the same shade of red, white, and blue. filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/hostage.htm   (671 words)

Hostage (2005): Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jonathan Tucker, Ben Foster - PopMatters Film Review As Hostage allows you to dismiss or fixate on Mars' symptomatic deviance, or even the masked corporate monster, it tends to let the hubristic fathers -- Walter and Jeff -- off a few hooks, even though their sins are more calculated than Mars' (and less informed than the masked villain's). This even though Hostage is structured in two parts, over a year's time, beginning with a prologue where Jeff loses some hostages in a gruesomely violent L.A. standoff. Hostage negotiator Jeff Talley (producer Bruce Willis) is stuck inside one long, bad day. popmatters.com /film/reviews/h/hostage-2005.shtml   (1154 words)

IGN: Hostage Review The plot of Hostage revolves around a down-and-out Ventura County sheriff who used to be a hot shot Los Angeles hostage negotiator, the story bears a striking resemblance to Die Hard, not only due to the presence of Bruce Willis, but also through some of the ancillary characters and plot devices. Easily the most captivating portion of Hostage is the opening credit sequence, which is a pastiche of pulp images utilizing the striking juxtaposition of red on black (although it entered the theaters first, the credits here bear a similarity to those of Sin City). "Taking Hostage Behind The Scenes" is one of those neo-documentaries which is a standard "making of" cross between a studio EPK and an actual documentary. dvd.ign.com /articles/655/655166p1.html   (1047 words)

Swordfish (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Some people however consider the film deeply cynical, though, as the supposedly good guys use hostage-taking as an integral part of their heist, brutalizing them in vivid scenes and causing several deaths. Swordfish (sometimes refered to as Password: Swordfish) is a cyberpunk-action/thriller film released in 2001. The moral issues brought up by this film are especially poignant after the September 11, 2001 attacks. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swordfish_(movie)   (472 words)

Speed (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Speed is a 1994 film directed by Jan de Bont, starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock (her breakout role), Jeff Daniels and Dennis Hopper. The film is often cited as an excellent example of a high concept film: "a bomb on a bus." The jump, as well as most freeway scenes in the movie, was filmed on California's Interstate 105, which had not been officially opened at the time of filming. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Speed_(movie)   (1697 words)

Heist film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia All involving collaborative efforts that require elaborate preparation and dramatic fallout, there is also: the prison-break film, the assassination film, and the hostage film (usually shown from the opposite perspective: that of the hostages and the rescuers). The classical Film noir period of the 40s and 50s brought the genre to fame: during these decades, several such gangster's films have been shot that to this day remain second to none. A heist film is a movie that has an intricate plot woven around a group of people trying to steal something. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heist_film   (620 words)

Darcy's Korean Film Page - 1999 Upon his return, he arrives at the hotel to discover a hostage situation, the one presented to us in ghostly slow-mo at the beginning of the film. What makes this film so bad is not so much the cast, chosen from a growing population of Western actors working in Korea (although in truth their acting is quite terrible), but rather the script, which is packed with more tired cliches than I ever knew existed. With its splintered narrative and hardly a drop of blood, the film lingers instead on the dynamics of the classroom and the intensity of its young heroines. www.koreanfilm.org /kfilm99.html   (6125 words)

filmcritic.com Movie Review: Firewall There is now practically a subgenre of films in which the protagonist’s family is kidnapped and the bad guys use that leverage to get him or her to perform some misdeed. Nick of Time, Hostage, and Red Eye all fit the bill. Firewall gives us a main character whose relationship to his family is so generic as to be negligible, a threat so mild that the bad guy is crueler to his henchmen than to his victims, and a crime so petty-yet-lucrative that we wish we’d thought of it ourselves. www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/ddb5490109a79f598625623d0015f1e4/b3d339af848eb4bc8825710600781db1?OpenDocument   (750 words)

slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Collateral Collateral is strangely constricted for a Michael Mann film, taking place mostly within the confines of a taxicab where the driver, Max (Jamie Foxx), is held hostage by Vincent as they drive from hit to hit in nighttime Los Angeles. The film is well photographed and artfully decorated, and Mann clearly enjoys playing out the suspense for all its worth. This singularly driven man walks through an immaculate, well-composed space—yes, this is a film that immediately announces itself as a Michael Mann creation. www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1096   (608 words)

ComingSoon.net - The Return of Rambo Nu Image Films, the owners of the film rights for "Rambo," was established in 1992 by Avi Lerner, a veteran film producer from Israel, and has annually produced 15 to 18 low-budget and foreign-sale films. In October 2004, Alpha1Media released an early draft of the film treatment on the internet, drawing global fervour and controversy, and reviving interest in the film franchise for producers and audiences alike. Nu Image/Millennium Films acquired the rights to the "Rambo" film franchise, with their chairman, Lerner, stating that Stallone is "one of the smartest guys I know." Having persuaded Stallone to co-star with a younger actor in Rambo IV, Lerner is confident about the film's future success. www.comingsoon.net /news/topnews.php?id=9819   (731 words)

LOST FILMS, 70's SPLATTER, RARE FILM NOIR, RELIGIOUS SCARE FILMS Mickey Rooney stars in this pantheon of bizarro lost films as B.J. Lang, an insane, washed up stage actor who kidnaps an innocent woman, holds her hostage in an old abandoned theatre house and proceeds to put on the most whacked out, LSD inspired performance you will ever see. Filmed in quasi-documentary fashion, the story chronicles the melancholy tale of rebellious, 17-year-old girl (Katy Kurtzman), who, in defiance of her dad’s (played by favorite TV dad Dick Van Patten) wishes, hangs out with a group of teenagers who enjoy thumbing rides for kicks. With this seemingly blasphemous take on the crime film, 99 and 44/100% Dead expands the genre to a kind of adolescent art film, a clear and pure distillation of the possible mind state of the murderer. www.5minutestolive.com /ct/homegrown1.html   (2503 words)

The Hollywood Blacklist: Film Review - Munich The separation of the actual massacre of the Israeli athletes from the beginning of the film drives home Spielberg’s point that ‘violence begets violence, blood begets blood’ and that the Munich massacre was merely a response to a response. After an all too brief scene in which the Israeli athletes in Munich are taken hostage by terrorist agents of Black September, Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir is seen meeting with Israeli officials to construct a plan of retaliation against the Palestinians for the massacre. Spielberg went to extraordinary lengths in the short few months of its production (filming began in July 2005, days after his two-hundred million dollar blockbuster, War of the Worlds, opened in theatres) to have nearly every scene in Munich reflect the styles, the culture, and the atmospheric feel of the 1970s. thehollywoodblacklist.blogspot.com /2006/01/film-review-munich.html   (2686 words)

Munich DVD - Munich movie - Munich In the Munich DVD, after the hostage situation in Munich, we go to Israel and meet we meet the handsome and charming Avner, deeply in love with his beautiful, pregnant wife. Strong performances, gripping action, moral complexity, and a political urgency make the film not only entertaining, but enormously important. On the surface, the Munich DVD is an examintaion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Munich Olympics. www.munichmovie.com /splash.html   (300 words)

Spy Kids (2001): Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara - PopMatters Film Review Luckily, the film mostly moves fast and highlights its many commercial-product-ready gizmos and fabuloso digital effects, rather than its mostly conventional characters and carefully spelled-out "lessons" -- be nice to your siblings, believe in your parents' good intentions, work on your communication skills, and watch out for bad spies. This discovery is, of course, very cool, at least until the siblings also learn that their parents have been taken hostage by the bad guys and that it's up to them -- Carmen and Juni -- to save the day. Spy Kids is all fun, sometimes obnoxious, and incessantly cheerful -- having your parents kidnapped is a minor inconvenience, leading to the chance to ride in a submarine that looks like a blowfish. www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/s/spy-kids.shtml   (1070 words)

Firewall movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review The plot for Harrison Ford’s latest film, “Firewall”, loosely revolves around a techno-suave bank robber (Paul Bettany) who breaks into a bank manager’s house and holds his family hostage until the manager digitally removes $100 million dollars from the bank’s richest clients. His last film, 2003’s “Hollywood Homicide” was probably the worst film of his career and it has taken him three long years to headline another film. This film is truly a refugee from the '80s, when we were high on good old-fashioned revenge. www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/f/firewall.htm   (845 words)

Firewall Casting the aging demigod as a greying bank executive extorted by the usual band of eurotrash techno-terrorists holding his perfect family hostage, it's a fable of paranoia that finds evil in not only the modern cell phone bogey, but other mysterious beasts like iPods, phone cameras, GPS devices, fax machines, and online banking, too. Firewall joins Ford's earring and Calista Flockhart as things he should've outgrown by now--and if you so desired, you could identify the movements of the picture as a retrogression from Air Force One to The Fugitive to Patriot Games. Alas, Firewall goes along its linear path with nary a thought of deviating from its ultimate destination: a mano-a-mano between the old grey lion and the young cub in a battle of wile and scrap. filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/firewall.htm   (464 words)

Anaconda (1997) Plot Outline: A "National Geographic" film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest - and deadliest - snake. Trivia: In the theatrical trailer, when Gary is attacked by the Anaconda, the CGI snake had not yet been put in, so he was falling backwards with nothing grabbing him. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) us.imdb.com /Title?0118615   (427 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us   Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.