Hostage

This familiar but proficient spy yarn stars Sam Neill as Rennie, an experienced hit man for the British Secret Service who is having a mid-life crisis precipitated by one dirty job too many.

In London, his boss Hugo Paynter (James Fox) tries to ferret him out by showing Rennie's ex-wife a pair of empty coffins with their children's names on them, but Rennie meets her in secret to assure her that he's worked out a protective plan, and in a seedy hotel in Buenos Aires, Rennie starts dictating a tape recounting his last mission. In flashback, Rennie has just finished his previous job of rubbing out an IRA terrorist, and Paynter briefs him on his next mission: to ...