worst film --- Hostage

Animation Production Concept

The action and thriller film Hostage in 2005, starring Bruce Willis, began with promising plot propositions. However, like most films based on novels, the simplified storyline leaves the audience with questions.
Bruce Willis plays a retired hostage negotiator in Los Angeles, Jeff Talley, who failed to resolve a hostage situation that caused the death of three victims including a young boy who died in his arms. Leaving the LAPD to become chief of police in suburban California, Jeff did not want to get involved when three young men turned a failed robbery attempt into a hostage situation. The plot thickens when an underground organization kidnaps Jeff’s family and forces Jeff to get involved in order to retrieve their desired information from the house of the hostages. Therefore, Jeff has to battle two groups of criminals in order to save the hostage family before he looses his own family as well.
Although the storyline is complex and well thought-out, there were many areas where the story took a turn for the worse. The three young men who held the hostages consisted of two brothers and one stranger who they met before committing the robbery. The stranger amongst the two brothers is called Mars. The movie does not explain how or why Mars randomly joins the brothers nor gives hints of the role he will play in the movie. It wasn’t until almost toward the climax of the movie did the audience learn that Mars is actually a psycho killer who kills for fun. After Mars murders one of the brothers and acting as if it was accidental, the audience sees a flashback that reveals Mars’ violent history and previous killings, but it did not explain how Mars ended up with the two brothers.
Meanwhile, Jeff had made it into the house and almost got the disk of information he needed to secure his family’s safety. Just then, the team from the underground organization came crashing into the house pretending to be the LAPD or S.W.A.T. team only to mess up everything when they destroyed the disk Jeff was carrying by accident, killed Mars, and set the house on fire. Still, Jeff manages to save the two kids who were held as hostages out of the burning house with only minor scratches.
The ending of the film was even more unrealistic and adds confusion to the resolution of the story. After saving the hostages from the house, Jeff appears in the place of the organization that kidnapped his family in the next scene with no explanation of how he knew where to find them or he even got there since the scenery seemed further out in the country. In a house that looked like a vacant barnyard, Jeff took down the whole gang with guns and saved his family without hold any of his own.
Overall, the movie felt like a drag with more and more things turned bad as the evening progressed. Yet the ending seemed like an easy and fast wrap up to an over exaggerated storyline with more gore splashing than necessary.