I knew I was going to be held hostage when the first sentence contained 3 f-words and 1 h_ll. It was down hill from there too. This was a typical Bruce Willis, “Die Hard” type film with his character, Sheriff Talley, having a marriage that was on the rocks. Then the bad guys take his wife and daughter and Talley has to rescue them. Along the way he fights anyone that gets in his way.
Willis has been in a couple of Dove Approved films like The Kid (2000) and Brunno the Kid (1996), but most of the films he is in contain graphic language and violence. Hostage is no exception, but I feel the negative elements are contained more than usual.
I for one would like to see Willis make more family-friendly films because I do like him as an actor. This is one film to avoid, though. It is not Willis’s best work.