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(1 - 38) of 38 OFCS Rating: 39% Rotten Page   1   "I was a nervous wreck by the end of this suspenseful movie."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker C+ "The last 30 minutes is a terribly busy bore, and does an excellent job of creating a bad taste to a film that isn't a complete washout and a decent genre exercise."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf "Tuned in to current politics, narrating the failure of isolationism, as the men imagine can lock themselves up apart from the world. "   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs C- "It's about as meaningful as a pile of clichés."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2.5/4 "Hostage is a hit-and-miss action-thriller. When it is good, it crackles and pops with literally breathless, grip-your-armrest-style intensity."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman B "Bombastic, audacious and slick, yes -- but in this genre, those are often good attributes."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 1/4 "The insanity bound for you in the final reel is a smorgasbord of brimstone and the ugliness of the most tasteless slasher films."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B "...at least the movie has a tone, and a style, and enthusiasm."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2/4 "Hostage rumbles on as aimlessly as an incoherent ransom note written with a streaking crayon...banally boisterous and over-the-top"   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C "By piling coincidence upon coincidence, the picture, though quite slickly made, collapses under the weight of its accumulated cliches and improbabilities."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "Bruce Willis struggles valiantly to have us empathize with his character's effort to redeem himself in his own eyes, but he fails and can only gush tears."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3/4 "Accept Hostage for what it is, and a flawed-but-enjoyable ride awaits. I never once glanced at my watch."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/4 "just as ridiculous as most other action movies, but at least it's one with a few ideas in its head"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 4/5 "Ticking-clock thriller takes borrowed parts, gives them a glossy coat of new blood and delivers a clenched-fist bundle of jolts and surprises."   Netflix   James Rocchi 2/5 "Willis earns his paycheck by sleepwalking through his role"   ToxicUniverse.com   John A. Nesbit 7/10 "Willis manages to be the best thing in the picture, and largely because of him I was willing to overlook the plot's ridiculous loopholes and exaggerations."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio "The director keeps Hostage moving even when logic hits a brick wall."   Light Views   John Larsen 5/10 "Every bit as riveting as The Negotiator, which wasn’t at all riveting."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 3/4 "Estamos ante una historia interesante, en la que los personajes dejan de ser las caricaturas habituales de siempre para convertirse en seres humanos reales."   Moviola   Jorge Avila Andrade 4.5/5 "Movies can be smart movies, masquerading as stupid ones - this may be the smartest stupid movie you see all year. Either way, it's just what you're looking for."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 3/5 "Hostage” plays so much to Willis’ strengths that it could have been called Die Hard 4: Die Even Harder.”"   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr C "Director Florent Emilio Siri is so caught up in his florid stylings that "Hostage" is somewhat enjoyable on a cheesy level"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/5 "The amazing thing is how dull a movie crawling with gunfire, psycho tantrums and stuff blowing up can be when you just don't care what happens to anyone."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 2/4 "Caffeine, testosterone, adrenaline, gasoline, and a lot of blood add up to one big headache"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "Not that there’s anything wrong with trying to inject some solemnity and sophistication into an action movie, but god help you if you don’t do it right..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "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."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B- "Contrast between impulsive, hot-headed amateurs and implacable, cold-blooded professionals takes this story above the usual guns and explosions multiplex fodder."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1.5/4 "A Heaven Can Wait DVD figures prominently in Hostage, but there’s more hellfire than wit or romance in Florent Siri’s thriller."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1/5 "O tipo de filme que deveria ter sido estrelado por Steven Seagal ou Dolph Lundgren e lançado diretamente em vídeo e DVD."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca D "...the whole thing creeps toward the end under the weight of an overbearing narrative."   TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)   Rick Curnutte 3/5 "Reasonably competent and breathlessly paced."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves C "Starts out with a lot of promise, but suffers from a silly plot that gets sillier as it goes along."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten C "Willis travels a well trodden road...screenwriter Doug Richardson...manufactures one obstacle after another for our hero"   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford C+ "There's a gripping thriller between the gaps in logic. Director Florent Siri has a tough style and an unforgiving attitude, but it drowns in the queasy blood lust."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker D+ "By the film's conclusion, Willis grows tired of the holes in his plot and starts putting holes in the bad guys. This from a guy who swore off action movies."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Sean O'Connell 3/10 ""Hostage" holds the audience prisoner in its implausible, frenzied, blood-soaked melodrama."   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 0.5/4 "As time capsules of our defeated, misanthropic age go, Hostage is pretty good. As cash grabs go, it's pretty despicable."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 6/10 Read review   Movie Gazette   Anton Bitel  (1 - 38) of 38 OFCS Rating: 39% Rotten Page   1