Review – Hostage

Die Hard on a much smaller scale. Bruce Willis stars as a hostage negotiator whose own family is taken prisoner as part of a criminal plot to recover a McGuffin stored on a DVD hidden somewhere in an expensive house. This is yet another of these witless action movies that depends almost entirely on a long series of implausible plot twists and characters with flimsy motivations. And of course in the end it turns into a festival of violence and destruction. Maybe if it had been someone besides Willis. Or maybe if something worse had happened to him. See if desperate