HostageI t’s
hard to beat John Singleton’s Four Brothers in the bad-filmmaking race;
however, director Florent Emilio Siri manages to just that with Hostage, a film
that relies more on explosions than dialogue and manages to fizzle long before the end.
How the heck did Bruce Willis ever get looped into starring in this dreck? Fortunately for
him, he redeemed himself later in the year in the fabulous Sin City. But still -- Hostage
is worse than Hudson Hawk and Hart's War! My advice to Willis: pick your
roles more wisely, and don't star in any more movies that start with "H." |
Four BrothersWhat a stupid film! Four foster brothers run amok
in Detroit avenging their foster-mother’s death. Violent and pointless, it is an
insult to the audience. One scene that epitomizes the stupidity of this film takes place
early on and sets the stage for more to come. Bobby Mercer (Mark Wahlberg) and his
brothers break up a nearby high school basketball game, wave a gun around, announce their
identities, and then demand that any witnesses to their foster-mother’s shooting come
forward. I ask you, would any rational person come forward to some nutcase brandishing a
gun? No one in the gymnasium panics or screams, nor does anyone bother to call the cops
and advise them that an armed vigilante group just threatened 500 people at gunpoint.
Apparently, this type of thing must happen all the time in Detroit. The cops do finally
show up at the end when all the bad guys have been killed. Did I say the film was stupid? |
