How about this:

In order to resolve a dispute over some pocket change, a talentless actor takes a man hostage and must find a way to get the angry crowd that has surrounded him on his side.

How about this:

After discovering the previous ruler was murdered, a young impressionable man called by a manipulative enchantress to rule a kingdom must launch an investigation and avoid being the next casualty.

How about this:
Over the course of one night, a meek nobody is taken hostage and forced to help a violent, apathetical criminal on a crime spree, while being chased by the police who believes him to be an accomplice.

How about this ?

When a bank robbery goes wrong and his partner is caught by the police with the bag of money, a naive and desperate young man has 3 hours to retrieve the stolen money in order to save his grandmother’s life, while being chased by the entire police force of his small town.

Alternative:When an old lady falls sick and in desperate need of an operation, her delinquent grandson decides to rob a bank. Complications arise when the robbery goes wrong, leaving him with only 3 hours to retrieve the stolen money while being chased by the entire police force of his small town.

Clearly it is still not phrased properly, but the idea is to have a film about a manhunt and the main character’s goal is to escape somehow, so he decides to leave the country. However, he wants to take his daughter with him, but she is being watched over by his ex-wife and the police.

How would you phrase it ?

Thank you for your comments.

How about this?

After accidentaly killing two policemen, Peter, an ex-convict trying to change his ways, must elude the revenge-driven police force and an angered population conditioned by the media in order to get his daughter before leaving the country.

What do you think of this:

“In a world with no sun, a girl obsessed with her parents disappearance must face her fear of the dark  to rescue her sister from a cult who intends to sacrifice her to the Sun god.”

Understood, thank you for all your help.

Nir Shelter, I agree with you.

So what do you think of this log line:

“In a dark and dangerous world with no sun and most of the people gone, a terrified young girl must find her sister before she dies from the cold, lack of oxygen or gets killed by survivors gone mad”

Also, just for argument’s sake, how could I, in your opinion, transform this so as to maintain depression as a flaw ?