Family Under Siege

This is THE worst movie I have ever seen(and I have seen many)...and the worst part is that I paid to see it! The people who played in it(you can't really call them actors)should get their money back from their acting classes.They have been robbed!They played so awful I didn't know if I should laugh of cry. The story in the movie could be good, but the actors totally ruined the excitement with their bad acting. Everything about this movie sucked,the lines,the "actors",the filming and the directing.I think it's a reason why this movie didn't become famous. So my bottom line is: don't watch the movie.At least don't pay to watch it,you will regret it.

This film is so bad with lame story stupid actors who act as a 9 year old kid even the directing is so funny. Sorry, but this film deserve less that 1

Too many threads weaving too many fractured scenes in a dissembled conglomerate of randomly disparate pieces of meaningless dialogue make this a muddled concoction of a cinema buffet of tasteless morsels more of a snack for a buffoon.

This mixture of Die Hard and Leave It to Beaver leaves much to be desired as action in one place seems so unnecessarily unrelated to the main action in the other. The threat of needing to kill an entire family by blowing up their home with them in it over a mere collection of gold coins does not equate with the need to blow up a building in Die Hard along with all the hostages for 700 million dollars in bearer bonds.

The bad guys at their best are exaggerations of futility and at their worst are unbelievable as weak-minded antagonists. Melinda Clark would have been better cast as Cat Woman and Derek Hamilton as a schizophrenic, psychotic misanthrope all mouth and no menace. Mel Harris does a credible job as a caring parent but does not show enough of the fear that would be more natural for a parent in that situation with pistols aimed at them in a continuous "I wanna shoot you but won't" series of idle threats.

Cameron Bowen as Nick is the MacGyver of the family with unique and fearless ingenuity despite his seemingly superfluous asthma while Michelle Jackson portrays one of more credibility had she been in Ferris Buhler's Day Off. As for Fred lane, he might as well have been MIA since he had no meaningfully significant role other than to be there as a reference.

The shift from scene to scene, house to house, set to set makes this more of a bad soap than a good action-less mystery. The title is a misnomer but it is certainly better than the original, Dynamite, because with either one, as a success, certainly all blows up in their collective faces.

I Saw The Movie Dynamite on Lifetime TV. It was under the title, Family Under Siege. I really loved this movie and I know who ever watches it will love it too. Faye Baxter is played great by Mel Harris as a protected mother and a wife of a business man. Three robbers holds the family hostage and plans to kill all of them. I think Michelle Jackson who played Alex did a wonderful job playing the oldest daughter who's a little wild and really funny and loves to pick on her little brother Nick played by Cameron Bowen in the movie, I Love that part when Alex's flips Nick on the head and he tells her to stop, and Alex says, you know you love it, being mean, I also laughed at Alex showing that crook her fake butterfly on her lower back and her mom thinking it was real. This movie is a must watch type of movie everyone will enjoy, it has wonderful action with the two kids, And other stuff you will enjoy. This is my type of movie and I give it an,

A+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

P.S. I Would Love To See Michelle Jackson And Cameron Bowen In More movies In The Future. They were GREAT.

Caught this on a day following all night on the phone to Europe - so just "vegged-out" and watched half-awake. Half-awake is quite sufficient to follow this story.

In the midst of these psychos pointing large revolvers at them, enough dynamite planted in the attic to demolish the famous bridge spanning the River Kwai --- and the protagonists assurances they are intending to blow them up --- Mom finds time to calmly see if the bad guys won't let her kids get some sleep. She later engages in a quiet, but stern, monologue, lecturing her somewhat rebellious daughter about life's choices, and her need to become more thoughtful about same.

This story does look like a soap opera with many disjointed scenes, and another person who commented here hit the proverbial nail on the head, describing this flick as a combination of "Die Hard" and "Leave it to Beaver."

Daniel Baldwin seemed as if he might nod-off at any moment, and his young confederate (alluding back to "...Beaver" again) seemed like Eddie Haskell with a revolver.

All-in-all, it looked as if it might have been written by several different ("C") students in a script writing class, different aspects, loosely connected.

There is even an intended surprise towards the end, but by that time the complete lack on any empathy towards these characters as presented makes this entirely moot. Give it 3*, rather than 1 or 2, simply because it is one of those presentations providing a minimum amount of fascination in its mediocrity.