Hard Time: Hostage Hotel

I guess I`m on a winning streak this week. Last night I had the pleasure of watching the hysterical "Airborne" starring Steve Guttenberg, and tonight I found myself in the company of Burt Reynolds and Sledge Hammer. This is appearently the ending of some TV-series but nobody, and that includes Smokey himself, seems to care at all.

The only good thing here is Mr.Sledge Hammer himself. David Rasche knows too well this is utter crap and instead decides to camp up his worried congressman with pretty hilarious results.The equivalent of dancing around while working at McDonalds...

Well, this movie was okay but it was a dissapointment. As soon as I got the tape, I realized it was a tv movie. So, it didn't have a lot of violence or high action in it. It was still okay though. It's not one of his better movies.

Hostage hotel was a very enjoyable movie, as im sure you all know from my previus comments that I am a huge Burt Reynolds fan, which is the main reason I liked this film, but not the only reason, it still had a good story with a great dialog, this movie was really well done for a film with such a small budget.

I would suggest you watch this film if you are a Burt Reynolds fan.

8/10

"Reynolds should have hung up his boots after Smokey and the Bandit II" - Fiction

"Reynolds has still got what it takes as an action hero" - Fact

What a movie! Mindblowing! To see an actor of Burts calibre still diving about (performing his own Slow-mo stunts, no less) really brings a tear to my eye.

Keith Carradine is the perfect foil to our hero as Reynolds' toughest movie opponent since Jackie Gleason (may god rest his soul) last chased him 'eastbound and down' Charles Durning puts in a wonderful turn as burts seemingly inept former partner but looks can be deceiving there's life in the old boy yet! All in all a wonderful film that i can highly recommend to anyone Go Burt!

In the third movie of the TNT series, Burt Reynolds is still angry with Charles Durning. When Congressman David Rasche's wife and daughter are held hostage by Viet Nam vet Keith Carradine, the nearly immobile Durning is called on by the cops to negotiate with him. He gets trapped in the booby-traps rigged by Carradine. Reynolds goes in to rescue him while FBI agent Ted McGinley argues with with cop Captain Richard Riehle.

It's old home week for Reynolds, with Hal Needham directing, which keeps the quipping to a minimum. Also to be thanked, although Reynolds does a bit of action stuff, it does not approach the comic-book levels of Willis and Schwarzenegger. Instead the movie relies on a sense of suspense based on the lighting levels and the echo-laden score... which, alas, did not work for me.