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Negotiator, The (1998) Rank 4 Reviews
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Walter Frith
Like the art of music, the art of film draws its influences from many different sources and the key to making a good motion picture is to present your own idea and make it unique without ripping off someone else's work. 'The Negotiator' works on several ...read the complete Negotiator movie review at Walter Frith
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Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
This little-hyped thriller 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. ...read the complete Negotiator movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
A triumph of style over story, and of acting over characters. ...read the complete Negotiator movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
Many of these tense thrills are action-packed, such as when the anti-Roman conspirators try to sneak assassins near him behind Sabian's back, and Roman ruthlessly defends his position like an army general. And many of them are more character-based, ...read the complete Negotiator movie review at The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
David Nusair
The movie is about an expert hostage negotiator (played by Samuel L. Jackson) who finds himself being framed for murder by an unknown source. He thinks he can find some answers in the office of an Internal Affairs officer (very nicely played by J.T. ...read the complete Negotiator movie review at David Nusair
Ted Prigge
How many times have we seen this in a film like this? I can remember "Speed," but at least that whole bit had to do with the actual plot. The things that happened in that sequence resulted in the rest of the movie. Here, the film is trying to prove ...read the complete Negotiator movie review at Ted Prigge
Steve Rhodes
The brightly written script by James DeMonaco and Kevin Fox mixes in just enough humor without transforming the tone of the picture. It assumes the audience has enough intelligence to see some obvious ruses even before most of the characters in the ...read the complete Negotiator movie review at Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
Director F. Gary Gray's taut thriller starts with a formulaic approach, but soon takes some major side turns. From beginning to end, the wellexecuted film has the audience on the edge of their seats. Although there are some bad plot choices, as when one ...read the complete Negotiator movie review at Steve Rhodes
The Reel McCoy (Patrick McCoy)
I finally saw The Negotiator on DVD in April of 2000, after a friend from work lent it to me praising its merits and demanding a review. This, he had me know, was his favorite movie. I hadn't ever heard much about it, to be honest. I remember seeing ...read the complete Negotiator movie review at The Reel McCoy (Patrick McCoy)
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DVD Talk (Chuck Arrington)
Come on, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, and J.T.Walsh in the same movie and it's NOT going to be awesome? No brainer. Excellent movie, excellent transfer easily highly recommended! Highly ...read the complete Negotiator movie review at DVD Talk (Chuck Arrington)
Christian Pyle
The cast is filled out by a familiar group of character actors. As the major suspects to be the mastermind that framed Danny: David Morse (the father in "Contact"), Ron Rifkin (the DA in "LA Confidential"), and John Spencer (the FBI director in "The ...read the complete Negotiator movie review at Christian Pyle
Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
``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. Only ...read the complete Negotiator movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
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