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The Negotiator

1998

F. Gary Gray

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

6.6

20,397

Thriller. Action. Mystery Victim of a complex conspiracy, Danny Roman, an expert Chicago police negotiator specializing in kidnappings, is forced to take hostages in order to try to prove his innocence. After hiding in a building with the hostages, Danny calls in a prestigious colleague, with whom he negotiates and tries to discover who is behind the trap that has been set for him.

	Media	Author	Review
		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)"
		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"
		Andrew Collins Empire	"Pretty decent drama and thrills from the two leads and a tight plot (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		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."
		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"

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