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If you're a Daniel Baldwin or a "Baldwin brothers" fan, *maybe* you'll go la dee da over this thing they called a movie.

The only person in "A Family Under Siege" aka "Dynamite" worth their pay is Mel Harris. The movie is among the worst I've ever seen. Mel Harris has kept up to her standard excellent performance. No one else in the cast of "A Family Under Siege" is worth mentioning. The writing and screen play is the worst. No one in the movie was worth their pay.

I wouldn't watch it for free - which I did. This was so bad, that I know I won't watch it again "by accident". It was too bad to ever forget any part of it.

This film is so bad with lame story stupid actors who act as a 9 year old kid even the directing is so funny. Sorry, but this film deserve less that 1

Too many threads weaving too many fractured scenes in a dissembled conglomerate of randomly disparate pieces of meaningless dialogue make this a muddled concoction of a cinema buffet of tasteless morsels more of a snack for a buffoon.

This mixture of Die Hard and Leave It to Beaver leaves much to be desired as action in one place seems so unnecessarily unrelated to the main action in the other. The threat of needing to kill an entire family by blowing up their home with them in it over a mere collection of gold coins does not equate with the need to blow up a building in Die Hard along with all the hostages for 700 million dollars in bearer bonds.

The bad guys at their best are exaggerations of futility and at their worst are unbelievable as weak-minded antagonists. Melinda Clark would have been better cast as Cat Woman and Derek Hamilton as a schizophrenic, psychotic misanthrope all mouth and no menace. Mel Harris does a credible job as a caring parent but does not show enough of the fear that would be more natural for a parent in that situation with pistols aimed at them in a continuous "I wanna shoot you but won't" series of idle threats.

Cameron Bowen as Nick is the MacGyver of the family with unique and fearless ingenuity despite his seemingly superfluous asthma while Michelle Jackson portrays one of more credibility had she been in Ferris Buhler's Day Off. As for Fred lane, he might as well have been MIA since he had no meaningfully significant role other than to be there as a reference.

The shift from scene to scene, house to house, set to set makes this more of a bad soap than a good action-less mystery. The title is a misnomer but it is certainly better than the original, Dynamite, because with either one, as a success, certainly all blows up in their collective faces.

This movie is so bad, I couldn't take my eyes off of it.

Mel Harris looks like the best actress in the universe next to all those other morons. Baldwin? What a joke. I have heard about how bad he supposedly is. Today I experienced it - this guy is a disaster.

And the director? Never, EVER(!) let him make another movie! What a waste of time...

I can't believe anybody paid money to see this "movie", nevertheless bought the DVD. Was there any company brave enough to publish this thing on DVD? I hope not...

Got to be the worst I have ever seen.

This is THE worst movie I have ever seen(and I have seen many)...and the worst part is that I paid to see it! The people who played in it(you can't really call them actors)should get their money back from their acting classes.They have been robbed!They played so awful I didn't know if I should laugh of cry. The story in the movie could be good, but the actors totally ruined the excitement with their bad acting. Everything about this movie sucked,the lines,the "actors",the filming and the directing.I think it's a reason why this movie didn't become famous. So my bottom line is: don't watch the movie.At least don't pay to watch it,you will regret it.