BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Noelle The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.

rory Hamer From the very beginning,it was apparent that this film was in the B category. It took too long building up to the purpose of the film to start with. The acting was a bit wooden too. I bought it in part because I saw that Vinnie Jones was in it, however I would've thought he'd have been in the movie for a lot longer than he actually was.As usual when the scene is on an aircraft, the effect is spoilt because you can hardly hear the sound of the engines, making it hard to believe you're airborne. I'm a huge aircraft fan and familiar with cockpit procedures and was disappointed to note that, apart from having a flight crew sat there, they did little of what pilots would've done in reality. when the action gets going, there's far too much indiscriminate shooting going on which, again, in reality would've caused a catastrophic decompression.On a plus side, the filming was very good and you do get a sense of money having been spent on costumes and set decor.Overall, there is no feeling of being terrified of the events taking place and the movie had a flat feeling about it. I guess I've been spoilt by excellent films,such as Skyjacked, with Charlton Heston, or Wesley Snipes Passenger 57, not to mention Red Eye with Cillian Murphy.The DVD was only a fiver though so didn't cause me to worry about the expense!

Stan steel This movies has it all, bad acting, bad sets, bad lighting, terrible plot, bad soundtrack that lacks atmosphere and depth, this movie should be shown to students at film schools to show many examples of how not to make a movie! OK for example the plot is set on board a luxury aircraft that's flying in the air, i say in the air because you the viewer has no idea the plane is moving, not a glass nor a bedside lamp moves while its in steep take off, glassware seems to be everywhere too on flat surfaces where any normal movement would cause it to fall over, the impossible size of the planes interior relative to its exterior draws similarities to Dr Who Tardis half of the film set looks like the interior of some manor-house in the Kent countryside is suppose to be the interior of the plane. i could go on but its not worth it. if your a film student , you must watch this movie.

tavsaito-425-337074 I wasn't expecting much but this was okay. its a straight to DVD action movie so don't go looking for Oscar winning acting or million dollar sets. but the action is good the story is pretty much expected but there are a few twists that keep it interesting. Vinnie is good, randy kicks some ass and i liked this movie. hope you do too. but just keep in mind its a straight to DVD movie featuring a retired UFC fighter :o) if your looking for an amazing action packed block buster involving the hijacking of a plane watch die hard 2 or con air. but if you've seen those and feel like throwing something on and eating some popcorn give this one a try.

Aleph Taw ...or so I thought, at least before the very end. No spoiler alert here, but I gotta say, the end kinda salvaged this one from being a whirlwind fail of epic proportions.After watching Hijacked, one thing is entirely and abundantly clear, Randy Couture is no actor, and probably never will be. I didn't watch this in the first place because I thought so, no, I picked this one because Randy Couture is a former MMA fighter, and that's what I wanna see him do in movies: fight. There are a few of those sequences in Hijacked alright, but those are way too scarce and way too short. Instead of writing a role for him where he had to manhandle his opponents the right way, the producers and writers of Hijacked obviously want the other way, hoping they would outsmart us all, by giving Mr Couture a dialog driven part. Well, that didn't work out so well, so they actually outsmarted themselves.Yes, there are a few glimpses of real surprise, like two very premature deaths for instance, but that's right about it. Often enough you should stick with what you know, because 99% of the time it will work, but that's not what they were gunning for here. The dialogs seem to have been written by some five year old, the acting is at times worse than at my local summer amateur theater, and the story line seems like a potpourri of movies seen a thousand times before. Why in the world Dominic Purcell agreed on participating is way beyond me. And Vinnie Jones probably just did it for a laugh, or maybe he lost a drinking bet, I don't know.To be fair, the story would have been sufficient, if there would have been less dialog and more fighting. Just a good ole Steven Segal-esque movie, that would have done just fine. But no, they wanted to make a "real film" out of it, and in the end missed almost all points by a mile. So yeah, this movie has no point at all, and I'll be damned if ever watch this one again.As for Randy Couture, well, I think his stuff might even work as a lead, but he would need a real script for that, less dialog and sure as hell more fighting scenes. Because that's what he does best, and if he doesn't see that, well, than his acting "career" is already done. I would watch real action movies starring Randy Couture as the lead persona, I really would, because the fights on Hijacked, as short as they were, reminded us of what he can do with his fists, elbows and knees, so just let him do that. All that of course doesn't mean write an awful movie and Couture will fight his way through. No, write something good, something that actually makes sense, and then you let him fight the bad guys. Sounds rather easy, but as Hijacked has showed, it's far from it.