Hostage movie Review

Facts of the movie:

• Starring: Golden Globe® winning actor Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollack, Joanthan Tucker, Ben Foster, Rumer Willis
• Director: Florent Emilio Siri (director of best video game, Splinter Cell)
• World Box Office: US$77,944,725
  

The story is based on New York Time best seller Robert Crais’s novel “Hostage”. Directed by Florent Emilio Siri, Starring by Action superstar Bruce Willis (Sin City, Die Hard Series: Die Hard, Die Harder and With A Vengeance, Unbreakable, The Sixth Sense, Armageddon and Pulp Fiction)

The movie starts in a sleepy day. When their late afternoon joyride turns into a random act of violence, they take a family hostage in the affluent bedroom community of Bristo Camino. Enter Chief of Police Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis), a stressed-out former LAPD SWAT negotiator who is hiding from his past. Plunged back into the high-pressure world that he desperately wants to forget, Talley soon learns that his nightmare has only begun.

The hostages are not who they seem, and the home contains secrets that even L.A.’s most lethal and volatile crime lord, Sonny Benza, fears. As Talley tries to hold himself together and save the people inside, the full weight of Benza’s wrath descends on him, putting the police chief and his own family at risk. Soon, all involved are held hostage by the exigencies of fate and the only one capable of diffusing the standoff is the least stable of them all.

Hostage is a blistering stand-alone thriller with superb characters in crisis between the choices, multi-stranded plotting, and pitch-perfect Southern California sensibility. Even though the movie has high level of violence and offensive language; and looks a little bit familiar idea as the other movies, such as “Panic Room”, it is still a good piece of thriller to watch.

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Brokeback Mountain movie Review

Facts of the movie:

• Winner 3 academy awards: Best director, Best original score and adapted screenplay
• Starring: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway
• Oscar® Winning Director: Ang Lee
• NZ Box Office: $1,231,368.3
  

One of the best lines in Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain is based on Annie Proulx’s most brilliant short story “Brokeback Mountain”.

The story is about Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.
Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that's what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it.

Joe Morgenstern (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL) argues that most of love stories come and go, but this one stays with you -- not because both lovers are men, but because their story is so full of life and longing, and true romance.

Owen Gleiberman (ENTERAINMENT WEEKLY) says that this is “A Big, Sweeping, and Rapturous Hollywood Love Story!”

Indeed, it is one of “THE BEST FILM OF THE YEAR!” – Joel Siegel, GOOD MORNING AMERICA.

Personal point is that it is a brilliant movie and you should watch it sometimes. As Joe Morgenstern said that it is so full of life and true romantic film.

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