Very Cool!!!

Fresh and Exciting

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This movie was interesting, kept me engaged, and not completely predictable. Would recommend!

A failed police negotiator turned small town cop, must save the lives of a family held hostage, which draws him into a much more dangerous situation.The film's plot is roughly the same as the novel; the main difference is that a complicated subplot involving the Mafia was removed and the ages of the first group of hostage-takers was lowered slightly.Although reviews on the film seem to be mixed or even negative, Ebert wrote of the plot twists, "This is ingenious, and adds an intriguing complexity to what could have been a one-level story." And he is right. The film is complex, but never in a way that seems contrived. Impossible, maybe, but without the reality of film quite sensible.Bruce Willis is a great action star, and while action films may have faded since the 1980s, Willis never faded with them. He continues to bring a certain level of excitement to his pictures and it is no surprise the "Die Hard" franchise has been successful long after other franchises have fallen off.

This just wasn't a very good story line to begin with. It seemed like the main point of the director was to scare the audience and to show a lot of people getting killed. Two sets of bad guys really!Bruce Willis's character wasn't up to the usual Bruce Willis style which is a lot tougher.Really if I hadn't been doing something else worthwhile during the time I had this playing I might have just turned it off.I give it 4 stars out of 10 just because there was some action in the movie. I think the story should have been rejected but the director made an even bigger mess out of the story.

This movie was the most riveting of his. I purchased the DVD a month ago for the bargain at Wmart being an older movie now in December 2013. You could not fall asleep as tired as I was. This movie is edge of the seat throughout. I cannot believe this is not higher than 3 out of 5 stars overall. I gave it 10 stars for this. Admit it is a little high on some fake dynamics/theatrics, but was a movie one can watch 10 times over. Such as when one of the characters(Mars) burns himself to death with a Molotov Cocktail was just a little unrealistic but is good for cinema. This movie could easily be a true story based type plot without the higher end drama scenes. It was very high on realism otherwise and shows the immaturity of the younger would be car thief's who screw up their day because of poor/rash decisions.