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Once again, Warner Brothers has brought us another choice blu-ray title, and has sent me a copy to boot.

It’s The Negotiator, featuring Kevin Spacey and Samuel L. Jackson in a thrilling mindbender as the two play police hostage negotiators.  Sam Jack, meanwhile, is playing the one who’s being accused of murder and embezzlement.  He in turn takes hostages in order to force an investigation to prove his innocence.  Kevin Spacey plays the one who comes in to try and negotiate the hostages away from Sam Jack.

There is a constant back and forth here, an undercurrent of ebb and flow as high-quality actors pound against each other, jockeying for position, in a constant and highly entertaining push toward the end.  It’s like a horse race, a magnificent cat and mouse game going on here as steadily, bits and piece of the plot are exposed in a thoroughly satisfying fashion.

Even better, there will be plenty of twists along the way, and all sorts of surprises as well as a few laughs in the early parts of the whole thing, so you should be satisfied on most every level.  If you have any fondness for thrillers or crime drama at all, then The Negotiator should do a fantastic job of making you very happy.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives this sublimely satisfying thriller an eight out of ten for being extraordinarily solid, and for presenting a nicely written plot in a great light with choice actors and excellent dialogue.

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