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The Negotiator

1998

F. Gary Gray

Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse, Ron Rifkin ...

6.6

20,371

Thriller. Action. Mystery An ace police hostage negotiator is framed for murder and the only way he can see to buy himself enough time to prove his innocence is to take some hostages of his own. Spacey is a fellow top-notch hostage negotiator whose job it is to take out his friend and colleage until Jackson manages to convince him that he's playing for the wrong team.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'The Negotiator' is a triumph of style over story, and of acting over characters. The movie's a thriller that really hums along, and I was intensely involved almost all the way (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"[It is a] chance to see two consummate actors engage in a subtle war of words, but for too much of the film they're either at separate ends of a telephone, or simply divided from one another by the plot logistics and action scenes"	NEU
United Kingdom	Andrew Collins Empire	"Pretty decent drama and thrills from the two leads and a tight plot (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"The film misuses both its stars (...) Each seems a little lost among the red herrings and all the machine guns."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] emerges as a dark-horse winner by reminding us of how pleasurably exciting a popcorn movie can be when it’s populated by actors who are in it for more than an exorbitant fee"	POS

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