A Hijacking movie reviews & Metacritic score: After hijacking the crew of a Danish cargo ship, Somali pirates engage in tense and lengthy negotiations with o. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. A tense, gripping thriller, A Hijacking avoids action movie cliches and instead creates a palpable sense of dread by mixing gritty realism with atmospheric beauty.

This exacting drama is a deft, verite-style account of Somali piracy in the Indian ocean. Full credit to A Hijacking for resisting the siren-call of Hollywood histrionics in favour of the nuts-and-bolts. Director Tobias Lindholm is a writer on 'Borgen', and as weeks turn into months, he portrays well the claustrophobia on board the ship and the tension at home - but a built-for-TV feel keeps the pace a bit slack.

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Recent episodes in Movies. 'A Hijacking' movie review. To refuse to call "A Hijacking" a thriller is not to say it isn't thrilling, in a dryly cerebral way. Writer-director Tobias Lindholm has a point to make, and he makes it pungently. The cargo ship MV Rozen is heading for harbor when it is hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. Amongst the men on board are the ship's cook Mikkel (Pilou AsbÁ¦k) and the engineer Jan (Roland Møller), who along with the rest of the. Scrupulously realistic, "A Hijacking" acts as a bracing corrective to the cathartic satisfaction of action movies.

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It is simply not realistic to expect Roger Moore's character in "ffolkes" to launch a high-seas rescue mission. Pilou Asbæk and Søren Malling star as a cook taken hostage and the CEO that attempts to negotiate for his release, respectively. Plane hijacking is a really scary thing to see.

The fear that appears on the face of each hostage and the terrorizing looks of the hijacker directly touch the viewer's nerves. Heat Vision Box Office Reviews Archives. Of late, debut-making directors are coming up with stories that defy the stereotype. Kunal Shivdasani is one of those.