Not really a play, this piece is more a cross between a farce and a vaudeville act. Prostitutes, rebels, Republicans, Blueshirts, loose women and fast men quip about religion, politics, war, drink, sex and the peculiarities of being Irish. I only read "Richard's Cork Leg." Various shenanigans occur in an Irish cemetary then move on to an upstanding citizen's house, then back to the cemetary. Brendan Behan may well fill the place vacated by Sean O'Casey."-Kenneth Tynan
"It seems to be Ireland's function, every twenty years or so, to provide a playwright who will kick English drama from the past into the present. Also included in the volume is a wide-ranging bibliography. The Introduction, by Alan Simpson, who knew Behan well and first directed his work on stage, provides the essential biographical details as well as candid insights into Behan's working methods and his political allegiances. There follow three little-known one-act plays originally written for radio and all intensely autobiographical: Moving Out, A Garden Party and The Big House. a masterpiece" (Harold Hobson) and Richard's Cork Leg, set largely in a graveyard, is nevertheless "a joyous celebration of life" (Michael Billington). First comes the three famous full-length plays: The Quare Fellow, set in an Irish prison, is "something very like a masterpiece" (John Russell Taylor) The Hostage, set in a Dublin lodging-house of doubtful repute, "shouts, sings, thunders and stamps with life. This volume contains everything Behan wrote in dramatic form in English. Rating : Better than average and well worth watching.This volume contains everything Behan wrote in dramatic form in English. Predictable but delivers the action required of the genre and is recommended for those who are just looking for exciting films. The flick will appeal to Bruce Willis fans and action movies enthusiast. As Bruce Willis as film producer hired to filmmaker Florent Siri for the successful former film. The picture gets similarity with ¨The nest¨, previous film by the same director, cameraman (Giovanni Fiore), musician (Alexandre Desplat) and technicians in fact, there is also a place surrounded by various perpetrators and a violent showdown in a locked location. Bruce Willis, as usual action hero, confronts perils and risks and he must battle till vanquish in this overly violent action film, his main enemy results to be a psychopathic young killer (an excessively nasty Ben Foster).
The movie is plenty of thriller, violence, shootouts with stimulating and spectacular action set pieces including profanity, as the word "fuck" is used 89 times. But the events go wrong and the negotiator's family is also kidnapped to force him to obtain an information at home with a high-tech security system. Then, three punks (Jonathan Tucker, Ben Foster, Marshall Alltman) pull off a burgle from a rich man's house (an accountant Kevin Pollack) taking him as hostage along with his children (Michelle Horn and Jimmy Bennett). The film focuses a previous LA hostage negotiator (Bruce Willis) who subsequently a failed negotiation goes away to a little town along with his wife (Serena Scott Thomas) and daughter, Amanda, (Bruce Willis's daughter in the movie, was played by his daughter Rumer Willis, she wanted the part, but Willis made her audition like everyone else and she got the part).