When a mafia accountant is taken hostage on his beat, a police officer – wracked by guilt from a prior stint as a negotiator – must negotiate the standoff, even as his own family is held captive by the mob.
Speaking of torture, if you dig it, by all means lock yourself up for two hours with Hostage, which begins by administering electric shocks to your viscera and keeps upping the voltage.
– David Edelstein,
Slate,
11 Mar 2005
rotten:
A tired formula.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
11 Mar 2005
rotten:
I thought, this is going to be a first-rate thriller, nobody plays that kind of character better than Bruce Willis, he's great at that. And then it just gets more and more complicated and more and more ridiculous.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
14 Mar 2005
rotten:
Hostage is all the pulp thriller Bruce Willis movies you've seen before.