Hijacked (2012)

I'll tell you why so serious

Good start, but then it gets ruined

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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!

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!

The picture begins successfully enough with the under appreciated Vinnie Jones playing a suave British secret agent. Looking snazzy in a tuxedo, cool and cunning. You know he can jump into action and kick some serious butt at any minute, but first he must flirt with the ladies. This opening seems to make a successful case for ol' Vinnie as the next 007. Unfortunately, this is not a Vinnie Jones show and after a rather tedious shootout, Jones disappears from the movie all together.Hijacked is a routine, merely adequate action vehicle for Expendables star Randy Couture. Incompetently Directed by Brandon Nutt, this Nutt seemed to believe in the film's merits as he co-produced as well. Couture, the Washington state born former UFC superstar turned action hero makes a go at his first starring role, I wish I could say he is the next great action star, but I just can't. He is stiff and lacking the essential charisma for that, he has an unkempt look reminisce of Jason Statham, but is lacking the Stath's virtues. Here, Couture is easily over shadowed by his more experience co-star Dominick Purcell, who gives the film's best performance.The story is familiar, the plotting strictly by the numbers. The production at least looks good, the first part of the picture is set in Paris, so we get some better than expected locations, not the far too common ugly grays of Eastern Europe, which is cheap to film in. Most of the story takes place on an airplane though, this will make many viewers aware of superior actioners of the past such as Air Force One and Executive Decision. Not too much on the action front either as we much wade through nearly half the movie for it to really get going, then it precedes to take silly turns with lots of gunfire on the airplane. It all goes on too long, too boot. Finally landing with a you've got to be shitting me "twist" ending. Couture's professional nickname was "the Natural", obviously it applied to his athletic skills, because when it comes to his movie star cred, he is anything, but a natural.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!