CAST: Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse, Ron Rifkin and more.
DIRECTED BY: F. Gary Gray
WRITTEN BY: James DeMonaco and Kevin Fox II.
INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE URL: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120768
TYPE OF MOVIE: Action, Drama, Thriller
RATED:Â R
DURATION: 139 minutes
As a decorated hostage negotiator, Lieutenant Danny Roman has made a career out of talking down dangerous men who don’t listen to reason. But he goes off the deep end himself when he is framed for the murder of a colleague investigating corruption in their department. Convinced that the Internal Affairs office contains evidence that can exonerate him, Roman takes everyone inside the building hostage. Roman demands Lieutenant Chris Sabian, known for his anti-violence creed, be brought in to negotiate thinking it will buy him time. When Sabian’s attempts for a peaceful resolution are constantly undermined by local authorities, he begins to suspect there may be method to Roman’s madness.
DVD EXTRAS:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen
• Production notes
• Theatrical trailer(s)
• Documentary “The 11th Hour: Stories from Real Negotiators”, profiling real-life police negotiators
• Chicago on-location behind-the-scenes documentary
• Widescreen anamorphic format
KNOWN DVD SECRET(S):Â None that I know of
DVD REVIEW:
A very good movie on PD negotiators. I was so happy to see this movie come out to the theaters because no one has an idea what negotiators have to go through and to have any movie done on it and to have two talented actors play them is very cool.
The DVD is one of few very good releases that Warner Bros. during the early years of DVD’s. The documentary is pretty interesting. and to watch the on-location documentary and learn of the fight that director F. Gary Gray to get his building for the movie. Interesting information from the 11th Hour documentary from an LAPD negotiator. The only thing I wished that this DVD had was a director’s commentary.
The video quality seemed to have some artifacts on the dark scenes (which there are many dark scenes) but hardly noticeable. Colors are really nice and the audio was good but imagine this if they released it with a DTS track…whoah!
A good movie about friendship and betrayal among the people of a metro police department in Chicago. Check it out!
THE MOVIE:Â B+
THE DVD EXTRAS: C+
THE DVD OVERALL:Â B