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Hostage (2005)

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Commentaries on this disc:

Commentary 1: Director Florent Emilio Siri Rating:6.0/10 (3 votes) [graph]Login to vote or review
Reviewed by The Cubist on July 14th, 2005:Find all reviews by The Cubist
The film’s striking opening credits was his homage to the black and white film noirs of the ‘40s. In the book that the film was based on, the three kids were much older but Siri wanted them young, like the kids from Columbine—dead inside and with little regard for human life. Siri comes off all as well-spoken, talking at length about the motivations of characters and the themes of the movie.
Reviewed by Uniblab on December 16th, 2012:Find all reviews by Uniblab
This one is mostly average, but the lively and enthusiastic way French director Siri talks despite his lack of fluency in English (funny how he pronounces the word "little" as "lethal") makes the track relatively interesting.
Reviewed by grimjack on June 3rd, 2019:Find all reviews by grimjack
Just okay. A little hard to understand what he is saying, and a little sparse in places make this a mostly boring commentary. There are various things of interest that he brings up, but many can be read in the IMDB trivia section. One thing the commentary does show is how talented the director is, and how complex were the many things he tried to convey (even if not all of them worked out).