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    Hostage

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    cliffa@

    This is a novel idea, overall pretty good. But it is flawed. The opening scene is so predictable as the standard to many a cop movie. Then, who designed this house? $20, 000 in floodlights, $150, 000 in surveillance cameras and viewing monitors, safes, locks, bars, panic rooms, panic buttons, two way mirrors, automatic lockdown sliding chainlink doors, bullet proof glass. Gee we have to cut back in the budget, let's see? How about we cut out the smoke detectors and sprinkler systems? After all, chances are we'll have kidnapper problems long before there are any fire problems. Oh. And why do you have an industrial sized air conditioning ducts in a house? Because it's convenient for the plot. I don't know if I should direct blame at the writer, the director or the actor Ben Foster, at least one of the three watched the crow too much for the final scenes of Mars. It comes off as really bad acting and Ben will probably be the one to pay as he may have trouble getting work after this.

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    cliffa@  23.3.2005 age: 36-49 213 reviews

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