American Hostage

One of the worst movies I ever saw, if not the worst. It seems that some people are taken of the streets and asked to 'act' in this movie. if you look up the actors in IMDb it is obvious that these are not real actors, there's just a small and incomplete summary.

With a good story the movie would still have been OK, despite the acting. Unfortunately the story doesn't make it any better. This really is a pity because there could have been a good story and message in this movie for everyone.

The music matches the lack of acting and the lack of a good story, it is very disturbing from start to end.

I could not watch it until the end.

This is a contemporary movie about terrorism where two soldiers are taken hostage. The film has 3 main story lines, basically concentrating on how the terrorist got to this point. There is one scene that will make you cringe in your seat. As far as the script goes, the dialogue was really good and interesting. Especially between the character of Donald Young and Shahin, one of the terrorists. I disagree with some of the other reviewer. Yes these are unknown actors but they did a good job, especially Atiq Rahman and Charles Garcia. Also the movie didn't look cheap at all. I mean you can tell that this is low budget indie film. But it's well done. It definitely kept my attention. Also the ending was a pretty big surprise. I would say it's worth watching.

The plot is a group of Muslim immigrants take two American soldiers hostage in Florida demanding the release of all prisoners at Guantanamo in exchange for the two lives.

Let me first of say that you can't compare this to an indie film made for a couple of million bucks. It's a pretty good movie considering its budget of $100000 according to IMDb.

The acting was very good, especially Atiq Rahman who plays the main terrorist character of Asad. Charles Garcia playing the main hostage did a great job. I was most impressed by the acting of Thibault White who portrays his psychological breakdown beautifully. The plot includes bonding with the prisoners, conflicts within the terrorist group, cultural differences and a love story between Asad and Fahdah played by Davina Reid. The love story was not explored to its fullest potential.

The whole drama and dialogue was fascinating and thought provoking. Especially the conversations between the hostage Donald Young played by Charles Garcia and the terrorist Shahin played by Shrey Neil. Although we've seen stories like this before it's never quite done like this. This movie tackles the fact that there's always 2 sides to a story. It's explores that gray area of who's good and who's bad that we rarely see in movies. Most movies have a clear cut good guy and a clear cut bad guy. This is a movie tackles a serious subject beautifully with a couple of big surprises at the end.

I was never bored. If you like movies that explore differences in culture and that show a different perspective that this one is for you.

Final verdict. This movie is worth watching and considering its budget I give it 6 stars.

... under the title.

When you see this, you can go "Ah, now I know what to expect", so you don't get caught when a few hundred others have watched a movie with blinkers on.

Or, maybe they should link in with Box Office Mojo & show the budget of the movie, directly under the name ... another "Ah, N/A means it's so low (read=bad) that they too ashamed to put a budget on". Yes, I actually searched for it there and it wasn't found. And yes, I know that not every movie is on that site.

Overall, don't waste your time. I'm guessing every person involved in this movie voted and hence (at time of writing this) the 384 voters were slightly biased, or high on something.

Watch at your own peril ...

really??! 7.5 out of 10??! are you sure you are not drunk??! Based on IMDb ratings i chose this movie to watch, but again it is approved to me not all ratings can fetch you the dream. a real catastrophe; no matter the cast or the scenario or acting. this movie should be shown to students as a sample of "how not to make a movie!". the angles of shooting, the way actors or actresses looking at each other and specially the funny stress controlling actions. Anyway i thought maybe the voters were drunk while rating! so i tried to get drunk and watch the movie! but you know what?! i couldn't get further than 10 minutes. To people who still have not watched this; DON'T!