![]() ![]() ![]() The author also expertly shifts scenes, showing the same situation from different characters’ viewpoints. Understandably, the film rights have been bought by Bruce Willis and MGM. When the situation takes a personal turn, Talley has to trust his own instincts again, especially when some of his fellow cops might be on the mob’s payroll.Ĭrais delivers a cinematic vision to Hostage with unexpected twists and turns. Now Talley not only has to negotiate for the hostages inside, he has to stop the mob henchmen who want the computer programs back at any cost. Millions of dollars in laundered money are hidden in his home so he can dole out cash to gangsters who regularly drop by his home office, posing as his clients. ![]() Smith’s computers are filled with spreadsheets detailing the mob’s activities. Smith is not a simple hostage - he is the accountant for mob kingpin Sonny Benza. If, at this point, Hostage’s plot sounds like the 19 film The Desperate Hours, the similarity soon ends as Crais elevates it another notch. And his plan to handle the crisis until the county sheriff’s SWAT team can take over also quickly goes wrong. Now Talley faces the kind of situation he left Los Angeles to avoid. The trio’s plan to steal the family’s car and escape to Mexico quickly misfires. ![]()
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