Would you sacrifice another family to save your own?
After a hostage negotiation gone awfully wrong, the world’s most renowned negotiator Jeff Tally (Bruce Willis) decides to quit and becomes a county sheriff in a sleepy Californian pueblo. In the mean time, a three juvenile punks’ attempt to steal a car ends up with a whole family (a widowed dad, his adolescent daughter and a little boy) being held hostage by them. What complicates the situation is that the captured dad is a mob accountant holding incriminating data and mysterious gangsters kidnap Willis’s own wife and daughter in order to force him to retrieve the material from the mansion while 
subverting the ongoing investigations and negotiations. With the help of the family’s youngest member who managed to escape and hide in the ventilation shafts, Willis tries to save the day and both families.
With a clever premise and artful credits the movie delivers for most of its first half before literally all hell breaks loose. What follows is a loud and ridiculous gun blasting and explosion-heavy finale that makes you scratch your head more than once. Seemingly superhuman bad guys throwing Molotov cocktails and Willis killing off his offenders in brutal shootouts in best Die Hard manner makes this movie drift off into the outright ludicrous. (“Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker”). Instead of delivering utterly idiotic flicks such as this one director Florent Emilio Siri (Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow) should stick with making video games which he does better. Only Bruce Willis’ performance would to some extent justify the ticket price but that being said you had better to rent the Die Hard trilogy (you might skip the 2nd installment) and watch action flicks that do not pretend to be something else.
(1 out of 4 plotholes)