Saw the Bruce Willis flick "Hostage" last night on cable. It was actually a fairly decent cop movie. Willis plays a hostage negotiator in LA who moves his family out of the city and becomes a small-town cop after a failed negotiation. Of course, the sort of thing he was hoping to escape hits him again when a family is taken hostage by a group of car-jackers that followed them home.

The car-jackers have picked the wrong house, though. The father is an accountant for the mob, and they want their information extracted from the house ASAP. They then take Willis's family hostage so that he will retrieve an important CD from the crime scene and exchange it for his wife and daughter. He needs to rescue the hostages so that he can rescue the hostages, which is an interesting concept and made the film unique.

While we of course are asked to suspend disbelief several times, the pacing was good, the various criminals interesting, and Willis turns in an understated performance. I recommend seeing it.