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And it turned out that lots of the hostages died as a result of inhaling the gas.
The final toll of hostages is a little unclear, but it's certainly a few more than that, because other people died over the next few days.
During the Mumbai siege, terrorists were so dependent on technology that several witnesses reported that as the terrorists were shooting hostages with one hand, they were checking their mobile phone messages in the very other hand.
I also know that I'm very lucky compared to other hostages.
Four days before my eventful release, four hostages were beheaded a few miles away from where I was kept in captivity.
Count off!" My fellow hostages woke up, startled, and began to identify themselves in numbered sequence.
Among the hostages, they sparked betrayals, jealousy, resentment, mistrust.
What's certain is, all the guerrillas' manipulation was so damaging to us that even today, among some of the hostages from back then, tensions linger, passed down from all that poison that the guerrillas created.
And this was the first thing he said: "I know my fellow hostages are listening.
The men learn that a kidnapper is on his way with plans to kill his hostages.
I also thought that The story didn't make any sense what so ever, and it was another clichéd Action Movie, with a hero a bad guy, and a few hostages.
BUT this guy Henry Young who Murder in the First is suppose to be about was a a known bank robber who took hostages and beat them up in more then one robbery.
The missions each have specific objectives that force you to think as Bond, not just to shoot up every baddie that pops up on your screen, but also to avoid cameras, disable security systems, rescue hostages, protect the Bond girl, and so on.
This is Burt Reynolds'"Citizen Kane".Tragically nothing else he was ever involved in came close to approaching "Sharkey's Machine".It seemed to me that he put everything he had into it.It is a movie that is in love with movies.The opening sequence where Detective Sharkey single-handedly rescues a bus-load of hostages is an immensely exciting piece of cinema.
a group of teens decide to rob a bank to get some quick cash, but all goes wrong when a security gaurd gets shot and they take hostages
During a regular day at Saint Anselm's school for boys, a group of dangerous terrorists take all the boys and teachers as hostages and threatens to blow up the school if the leader, Luis Cali (Andrew Divoff's), father isn't released from the American prison, but these aren't just ordinary boys that are taken hostage, most of these kids are the sons of very powerful people in America and half of them were expelled from other schools before they came to Saint Anselm's.
No notion of how the two hostages feel, of their point of view, of their ordeal...
Just eliminate the bank workers, see who was at the bank-from all the cameras' footage angles-prior to the robbers entry and you have those extra 4 remaining robbers among the hostages.
It was so obvious the moment the hostages were asked to change into this identical uniform that they were all going to walk out the front door... seen it many times.
Of course the police mistake the burglar gang for the terrorist, the real terrorist gets away, and the burglars are forced to take refuge in a small dive of a bar, taking hostages, unaware why the police are so intent on catching them.
The first actual confrontation between the two rabid dogs results in a gigantic blood bath, as Pang mercilessly kills several hostages and even Wai's long time friend and colleague.
On the surface, this tale of a brutal gang who rob a gas station (hence the name!) and take the workers hostage appears to be just another been-there, seen-that Asian thriller, but underneath there's a soft centre waiting to be discovered - short vignettes give us clues as to how these thugs came to be this way, one of the hostages learns to stand up for himself, characters who are even nastier than the robbers end up worst off, and even the thugs themselves get a shot a redemption.
The actors playing the various hostages are capable, however, and there's a nice sense of what city life was probably like at around this time.
And anything that does happen is often ludicrous, especially a particularly stupid sequence with 50 Cent going crazy and holding hostages in a fast food restaurant and then getting shot by a police sniper.
Sinatra plays a psychopath who takes several people as hostages in his attempt to shoot the USA President.
The last gas station attack becomes much more involved and lasts an entire evening, during which the gas station attackers and their hostages all learn valuable life lessons from each other and grow as people.
A deranged young man, Gunther Wyckoff (whacko with a gun, played menacingly by Marshall Thompson in perhaps his best performance), shoots a city bus driver with the driver's own pistol, then holds up in a local bar using the patrons as hostages.
"Obviously these damned aliens will take advantage of holding hostages to dictate terms."
As time passes (this all takes place in one night) they amass a roomful of hostages that they've taken, all guarded by Bulldog, a not-too-bright lad with a floppy hat and a big stick.
Now it's up to the President and the Vice-President to negotiate with the terrorists or the hostages will die.
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