Alicia
I love this movie so much
StyleSk8r
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Rexanne
It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
SnoopyStyle
Laura Martin (Elisabeth Röhm) is a single mom and an FBI negotiator replacing the sexist angry veteran Agent Carlo. She's secretly dating her superior Frank Gerrard. Her daughter Taylor is best friends with sickly Annie Moss (Britt McKillip) and her mother Elizabeth (Chandra West). Annie is desperate for a transplant. Laura is sidelined after a difficult negotiation and then Elizabeth takes hostages at the hospital to get her daughter into an experimental trial.This is a TV movie. It is awkwardly clunky at times. It can't exceed its TV essence. The leads are fine actors. It pushes the melodrama too hard. It struggles to be something more. None of it is anything exception.
katelyn-k-rowland
wow! I really like this movie, but that is from a woman's point of view. Honestly, it is more of an chick flick with action, rather than just action or drama. So many guys wouldn't like it, I don't think.Of course like any movie, there were things they could improve on, but it was pretty darn good. I loved watching how they set up the dynamics between the mom, her boyfriend, her daughter, the friend with cancer, and the friend's mom. Additionally, they did a very good job showing how Laura Martin (Elisabeth Röhm) was fighting with Agent Di Carlo (Jerry Wasserman) to prove to him that a woman could be just as good at negotiating as a man.In short: I loved it.
HallmarkMovieBuff
These comments could contain spoilers (see last paragraph), but the movie's script is so formulaic that there is really nothing in the plot to spoil.I first encountered this film's lead, Elisabeth Röhm, in the TV series, "Bull," and was so taken with her beauty that I missed if there were any defects in her acting (after all, to me, she was a "newcomer"). By the time she starred in "Law and Order," however, they started becoming evident; and I have to say that they haven't improved here...nothing really bad, just too much false emotion, i.e., there are times you can catch her "acting." The best performances here (IMO, and within the confines of the script), are by Chandra West as the mother of the ailing friend of FBI mom's daughter (played well by Taylor Anne Reid), and by Malcolm Stewart as the FBI boss (especially in the scene where he explains to Reid's character why she shouldn't be blaming her mom for her father's leaving).If there's a spoiler here, it's this: the movie's title promises a hostage negotiation thriller (which in a way it is), but the point of the drama is to highlight the potential fate of severely ill patients excluded from clinical trials, with the FBI mother and neglected daughter merely a predictable structure to fill out the time, and ultimately deliver the message. Otherwise, there is much better drama on series television, and every single point of this drama is tied up neatly in the end, leading to a pat conclusion.
DaveHorowitz
Terrible acting coupled with terrible cheesy lines. It is so bad, it is not even fit for TV. Everything is predictable. The target audience is the hate filled feminists. Misandry is rampant at every turn. The show is filled with sick feminist propaganda. The feminist politics is so intoxicating, it makes the show seem more like a feminist hate session than a session of negotiation. She has to constantly tell the men they have to lower standards so she will make the grade. Of course when she fails we are to overlook it because she needs a handicap. Use your intuition and avoid this like the plague. Don't waste your time on this trash.
