FBI: Negotiator (2005)

disgusting, overrated, pointless

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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.

We begin "4 Days Earlier" with the robbery of a convenience store. It becomes a dangerous hostage situation. The swaying, shaky camera-work is dizzying and makes it difficult to watch. But this effect is used mainly for the hostage situations. The significance of "4 Days" is unclear, and action likely changes to the present somewhere early in the running time. Our heroine is pretty blonde FBI agent Elizabeth Rohm (as Laura Martin). She specializes in hostage situations; when a mishap incurs a lawsuit, she is given an unplanned vacation. Divorced a year, Ms. Rohm dates her FBI agent partner, athletically-built Woody Jeffreys (as Frank Gerrard)...Rohm's teen daughter Taylor-Anne Reid (as Taylor) misses her dad and resents Mr. Jeffreys horning in on the family. They are friendly with pretty blonde housewife Chandra West (as Elizabeth "Beth" Moss) and her teen daughter Britt McKillip (as Annie Moss). Unfortunately, Ms. West's daughter is deathly ill. When mother West learns her daughter's experimental medication will be discontinued, she becomes desperate. It climaxes with a hostage situation at "Burnaby Hospital". The mother/daughter scenes are nice, Jerry Wasserman (as Jon Di Carlo) and the supporting cast add some spark, but "FBI: Negotiator" never takes you hostage.*** FBI: Negotiator (10/24/05) Nicholas Kendall ~ Elizabeth Rohm, Chandra West, Woody Jeffreys, Taylor-Anne Reid

Okay, I watch Lifetime, I admit it. About four out of every ten movies are pretty decent and once in awhile there is a really good one. It passes the time when I need something relaxing. This movie actually made me gag, it is that bad, from beginning to end. The characters started out being pretty interesting but every scene got worse, I don't know how the actors got through it, they must have been thinking after each absurd scene that their careers would be ruined forever just from being associated with this movie! Not one plot line or scene felt real or at all believable, and it wasn't because of bad acting. Who in the world wrote the script and how could it have been approved? The last 15 minutes of the film really made me angry, I sat there with my mouth open saying "really?". Sorry for the rant, but I just had to warn people not to waste two hours on this.

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.