Hijacked

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Cool - here comes Vinnie Jones, whom I'm a big fan of & Dominic Purcell. The aircraft scenes look like they're shot in a hotel - very confusing. Do they really have glass fruit bowls sitting on polished wooden tables? Or cargo bays with cars inside, fully pressurised and air-conditioned with extensive lighting and stairs leading up to the passenger compartment? The action... they do a clever job of avoiding any real action on screen - and there is no excitement or suspense. The budget for this movie obviously wouldn't even cover the price of admission. The story was so bad, and the plot so sad, that I had to resist the urge to turn it off for a while. Initially thinking it was going to be a pythonesque slow starting rip roaring comedy... The joke's on me for wasting 40 minutes on this trash!

I expected a B movie with some cheesy action to redeem it. Indeed the DVD jacket suggested the bare bones of a plot that the film did fulfill. But nothing could have warned me that fulfillment could be so boring, so stupid, and so unconvincing. One starts to get an idea by the flatness of the dialog and emotion at the start. Does it ever improve? No. The actors have looks but they never seem invested. The style is low budget TV or straight to video. Then the first action scene is there delivering nothing worth watching as well yet nonetheless impressing me: must the characters--good guys and bad--really be that dumb in a firefight? Must they fight so badly? Incredible! Next we get to the airplane and by then there's no doubt what will be delivered: a film neither convincing enough to be worthwhile nor cheesy enough to overcome its stupidities. The set says it by looking nothing like an airplane. The special effects say it by looking unrealistic. The characters say it by reacting to danger, injury, and threat with true stupidity. The plot says it by lacking so much common sense in its particulars that there's no buying into any part of it. I can't recommend this movie on any level. But if you're a glutton for self-flagellation, a fan of boring, or looking for a movie that you can walk away from without missing anything, then maybe you'll want to check this out. In such an ill-considered event, I recommend that you attempt to keep your brain half alive by attempting to note some fraction of the ways stupid will out. For example, as a teaser, how would you handle events like these: - Protecting self from gunfire. Moving and fighting while shot, stabbed, or something. Wound care for your friends. Someone there to kill you. On plane expecting bad things will happen. Airplane safety procedures and equipment. Keeping somebody captured from posing further threat. Hide from people who would kill you. I like lots of B action movies. But this one is not worth watching. Really! Find some another movie.

I enjoy a good movie without action, but this was touted as an action flick. We used to get more action from Ozzie and Harriet. Unfortunately, with this unbelievably contrived and obvious script, even a tough guy like Randy Couture didn't have a chance. First, Mr. Couture was much more soft-spoken, easy going and mild- mannered than he should have been, and he along with all the CIA agents were laughably inept. If an amateur manages to knock a person down and he stays down, I suppose that person might possibly lay down his weapon and go over to comfort a frightened woman, but a trained and experienced CIA agent? Give me a break. These guys did this sort of lame trick throughout the picture just to give their opponents another chance to jump them, thus prolonging the movie to its obligatory ninety minutes, and of course we knew who the Real Bad Guy was before the credits stopped rolling. Sorry guys. I like Randy Couture and Vinnie Jones too. Mr. Jones really got the short end of the stick here, but I guess a job's a job. Boy was that a dollar wasted at Red Box. I should have bought a lottery ticket at the machine next to it.

I wish I could place a 0,1 out of 10.The plot was awful and the movie as a whole likewise. Acting, scenery and every aspect of the film, were nothing short of amateur! I was counting down the time to switch of my DVD player but to no avail. One and a half hour seemed to me endless. What a pity for Vinnie! Do not waist your time watching this crap!!! You should go for a coffee, or eat a burger or something. My disappointment was also increased by Dominic Purcell. I am a great fun of PRISON BREAK and this also applies to Dominic. Why Dominic? Why? The movie has taken place in a hotel the decoration of which could never be a part of a plane. PLEASE DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE. Don't Don't Don't Don't Don't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All special agent Paul Ross (Randy Coulture) wants to do is to win back his ex-fiancé, but his plans are sadly thrawrted when his love is on a mammoth plane that's been hijacked (hence the genius name of this film) by terrorists, which makes his day that much worse as he had been suspended earlier that day. While not nearly as bad as some of the reviews that I've read, it's not a particularly good film either. The action scenes are all right, it's just that it's plot is devoid of any originality and is hopelessly derivative which draws comparisons to similar terrorists on a plane films that this movie can't help but not fair well to. The acting is also not one of its stronger.points. All said, the movie while watchable is a bit forgettable. Eye Candy: Marla Malcolm gets topless My Grade; C

The whole approach to this movie took me back to the '80's, an era when the genre was at an all time height and the story didn't seemed to matter all that much. The era of big, dumb, overblown action movies, in which a lot of classics got made but even more absolutely horrible movies. I'm sad to say that this is also an absolutely horrible movie, that does some absolutely stupid things. First of all, for most of the time I had absolutely no idea what was going. About halfway in it, I still had no idea who all these people on the plane were and why they were on it and what the hijackers wanted exactly. And it's not done in a mysterious thriller type of way but all done in a clearly incapable and lazy way. The storytelling is just absolutely horrible at times and the way the entire movie flows and develops certain story elements are done in an atrocious way! Every time I thought that the movie would start to become potential good and interesting it would cut off and go to something completely different. You could say that the movie is being way too short and should had taken its time with some of its story- and character development. Yes, it sounds strange but I wanted this awful movie to be longer, so some things could had developed into something potentially good and more interesting maybe. The editing makes the movie all the more worse at times. I don't know but it at times feels as if entire sequences were missing and it at times makes some sudden jumps. It will confuse you and lets some sudden developments and scenes come across as incredibly stupid. And I also can't really say that this is an action filled movie. There are a couple of good old fashioned fist fights and some weapons get fired but overall its just nothing tense or spectacular to watch. There is of course only so much you can do with its premise and settings but simple fact is that there are plenty of other genre movies around that do a great job with its concept of a plane being hijacked in midair, so it really shouldn't be an excuse for this movie. And how are the likes of Randy Couture, Dominic Purcell and Vinnie Jones in this? Absolutely awful, though I feel you can't blame any of them really. When given the right material, all of them still could be some decent action hero stars. It's just as bad as any other dumb, low budget, action flick but this movie does some very stupid and incompetent stuff as well, making this movie worse to watch than just the average genre attempt. 3/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

From time to time I like to watch some B class movie. I know what to expect of it so I don't expect a lot (most of the time). But this film is the bottom of the bottoms. I don't know how can somebody could make movie so weak that was even painful to watch. That is not even B class movie that is Z class movie and I'm using the Z letter because there is no more letters in the alphabet. All in this movie suck. The actors are playing poorly which is interesting because I've seen some of them in other movies and they were doing alright. There is one guy who is producer, director and the screenplay writer, Brandon Nutt. Sorry mate but you should be doing something else, maybe slaughterhouse is a better place for you. I don't know how good you are with chopping meat but - for sure - cannot be any worst than your skills with movies making. My recommendation: DO NOT WATCH!

clearly a low budget film and the staging and stock shots evidence this. but for what it is, it works. tough guys, good looking girls, and lots of action. i liked the flight attendant, the journalist and the pilot.... that's the guy i want in the cockpit on my next flight. I am up for a sequel and this movie sets the stage nicely for one. Only difference I would like to see is on the budget. spend five times what was spent on the first movie (whatever that amount was ) and you will have a good picture. I am not saying you need to be on location but get staging the has the rounded appearance and proportions of an airplane not a hotel lobby and cast situation actors conforming to the purported location.