HOSTAGE ~ Starring Bruce Willis

Originally posted by Jackie Malfoy
I can't stand Bruce Willis so I do not plan to watch this movie.All his movies that I had seen I never like and he is such a big lible.JM

What is a lible?
Considering the daughter is your age, you might not like it, Jackie. Or, you might, depends. 😄

I ended up seeing it Saturday night and I'm trying to figure out why people are calling it Die Hard IV. Don't forget what those premises are about, Bruce Willis avoiding danger for 3/4ths of the movie, which wasn't the case in this.

I thought it was great. In fact, I know it was because my fiancee hates movies like this and she said afterwards she had to go to the bathroom about an hour into it, but she held it because she was so into the movie. And she never holds it!

Two scenes I thought were great:

Spoiler:
1) When the cop is shot and crawls on the driveway, and Bruce Willis picks her up after maneuvering his vehicle backwards while being shot at. And 2) When you find out the FBI agents aren't necessarily on the right side of the law, if you know what I mean. I also like how they didn't rely TOO heavily on the kid and his sister's cell phone.

One thing I'm trying to figure out is how, when the kid retrieved his father's gun and left the DVDs on the floor, they discs got to their "Panic Room." I must have missed something there.

Would highly recommend it for Action/Willis fans. I am both and wasn't disappointed. It runs circles around Assault on Precinct 13, now that I think about it.

I really enjoyed this movie.. I thought I wasnt gonna like it cuz it got quite a few bad reviews ( on www.rottentomatoes.com ) but when it was done I was pretty satisfied 🙂

I've read the book its based on but I don't really want to see it, probably because its looks to me to be more or less exactly like the book and in that case I know what happens.

Originally posted by SaTsuJiN
I really enjoyed this movie.. I thought I wasnt gonna like it cuz it got quite a few bad reviews ( on www.rottentomatoes.com ) but when it was done I was pretty satisfied 🙂

rottentomatoes.com hates every movie! 😉

Rottentomatoes is a good resource but you have to read the reviews, don't just look at the %.

Example of a bad review: "The action is dynamically filmed and Willis is at his best. Suspense is soon hijacked by outright gore and grisliness, though."
The part that many people didn't like, was the violence. I'm fine with that. Same happened with Kill Bill. The part they didn't like was the part I liked. You have to read what they didn't like and figure if that would apply to you, because I never hear violence and think, that will ruin the movie.

Originally posted by Myth
The part that many people didn't like, was the violence.

If Miramax would have sold out and made this PG-13, I would have p***ed on the screen and burned the theater down.

i never read or pay attention to a movie critic...i dont need some hack telling me whats good and whats not

alot of senseless violence in this movie. Damn good senseless violence though.

I finally saw it last night, and enjoyed it. Only gripe was that it could have been condensed by about 20 minutes, and the violence/gore could have been a little more thorough, instead of coming in clumps. I would have appreciated an explanation as to why they selected Bruce Willis's character to retrieve the DVD.

I saw it last night too, also enjoyed it.

Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
I finally saw it last night, and enjoyed it. Only gripe was that it could have been condensed by about 20 minutes, and the violence/gore could have been a little more thorough, instead of coming in clumps. I would have appreciated an explanation as to why they selected Bruce Willis's character to retrieve the DVD.

I saw it at the theater and have the DVD as well.

One thing I thought they cut out was when they were inside the house and it was burning, I thought in the theater that

Spoiler:
one guy's arm melted off at some point

Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
I would have appreciated an explanation as to why they selected Bruce Willis's character to retrieve the DVD.

Because he was in charge?

it was pretty rubbish, although there was some good action. Sin city was a quality film though and bruce willis was really good in it.