Tuesday night at the movies...well being sick and all, D rented a couple of movies to watch this evening and here is the rundown on them.

First was Hostage, starring Bruce Willis. He plays a small town cop who was previously a hostage negotiator with the LAPD who ends up leaving that position after a failed negotiation which ends badly - crazy and hostages dead, including a young boy who had placed his trust in him. He finds himself embroiled in another hostage situation that he gladly hands off to a larger police dept. until he is forced to reassert command of the situation by another party who holds his own family hostage. Lots of action ensues. Creepy thug was played to perfection by Ben Foster; and Kevin Pollack was the epitome of "dad".
★★★☆☆
3 stars out of five

Next we watched Cursed. Now I really liked this werewolf movie (but I've yet to see the Ginger Snaps movie/s - I hear they're awesome). In Cursed, I think what I liked best was the treatment of the movie - kind of Buffy'esque in presentation. I liked the symmetry of cool people who are "monsters" to the uncool people who become real monsters and exact revenge. Great stuff. And I guess it is really a story about revenge and how the need for revenge can make monsters of us all. The effects were fun if gory, but the movie leaves you at the end with no icky aftertaste.
★★★★☆
4 stars out of 5