Bruce Willis, one of the kings of stentorian action extravaganzas, has already scored an impressive jaunt with Besson’s The Fifth Element, so the chances seemed pretty good that Hostage would be an interesting project. Willis plays Jeff Talley, an LAPD negotiator who, after failing to thwart a traumatic shooting, retires to a simpler life as sheriff of a small town. Talley appears to find some success in getting on with his life until one day three young hooligans—requisite mean-guy (Jonathan Tucker), requisite hesitant (Marshall Allman), and requisite psychopath (Ben Foster)—run afoul of a rich guy (Kevin Pollack) and his children. The goons bust into rich guy’s mansion intent on stealing his car, but, naturally, things go seriously awry and everyone becomes trapped inside the highly-secure household surrounded by the coppers.