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Hostage
2005
· Movie
· 113 min
C
MEANRANK
61/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3922
- IMDb #3406
- Rotten Tomatoes #3816
- Metacritic #3843
- Letterboxd #3798
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4505
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3204
- Metacritic Critics #3951
- Metacritic Audience #3412
- Criticker #1582
- Douban #1976
- Kinopoisk #2375
- AlloCiné #2863
- Trakt #3543
Every rating
35–76
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 35, highest is Google on 76. Critics average 40, everyone else 65.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A former LAPD hostage negotiator, now a small-town police chief, finds himself thrust back into his old life when his own family is taken hostage. To save them, he is forced to negotiate the release of a dangerous criminal from a separate, ongoing siege, becoming a pawn in a much larger and more deadly game.
Details
- Director
- Florent-Emilio Siri
- Writer
- Doug Richardson
- Based on
- Hostage by Robert Crais
- Released
- 9 March 2005
- Country
- Germany, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $52.0M
- Box office
- $77.9M
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