It is my rare opportunity to review a movie that has not even come out yet.  In fact, the movie isn't even complete but I saw a screening of it here in California tonight.  Some lady stopped us in the mall last week and gave us tickets.  We got in for free, had to fill out surveys, and had to participate in a 20 person focus group at the end with all the film makers present.  It was neat-o.

    The movie was called "Hostage" and starred Bruce Willis who plays a hostage nagotiator who, after making the wrong move in a crisis siuation was responsible for the death of two innocent people, gives up the negotiator gig and becomes and city cop.  A hostage situation arises in his city, and he quickly turns it over to the sherrif's dept.

    Little do us unsuspecting movie goers know that the hostage is an accountant for a large group of bad guys (it never explains who they are, really), and he has time sensitive materials that the other bad guys need.  So the bad guys take Bruce Willis's family hostage and then tell Bruce Willis he better get into the house and get the information they need or they will kill his family. 

    It was a pretty stock film.  I give it a C for average.  There are some pretty gruesome parts too.  I told the focus group that the title for the movie sucked and it was stock and they should name it something else.  I don't think they will listn - they always name movies really stupid-like.