Hostage thrillers are usually a winner for me. There's a simple 'what would you do?' story angle which sucks the viewer into the film, providing the director doesn't muck it up or the hostages and hostage taker remain sympathetic and authentically menacing respectively.
Mothers Day is does a solid job of giving the suburban hostage drama a stretch of the legs. It's pretty taut, adds enough variation of location, character, backstory and twists to keep things from becoming dull and there's a likable cast in the form of Shaun 'Iceman' Ashmore, Jaime King and Brianna Evigan. And it's got a righteous, yet barkingly psychotic turn from Rebecca De Mornay as the mad mommy of the title. The story might be unremarkable but there's enough style and integrity in this little package for it to come up trumps.
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