Movie Review: \”A Hijacking\”
Rating: R (Language)
Length: 99 minutes
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Directed by: Tobias Lindholm
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Stars: 3.5 out of 5
One of the most alarming nightmares of the modern world is to be out, minding your own business, and suddenly be seized by unintelligible violent maniacs whose motives are unknown and whose methods are violent in the extreme. Even worse is to imagine that the kidnappers want a hefty ransom, only to have the negotiations break down because they\’ve demanded the money from a corporate CEO, one who now has to decide how valuable his employees really are.
This nightmare actually has played out in real life on scores of occasions. One of the more colorful anachronisms of the last decade has been the resurgence of piracy around the Horn of Africa. Short of a dirigible war or a sudden outbreak of smallpox, it\’s difficult to imagine a more outdated threat than to see a swarm of scurvy dogs swarm over the gunwales and demand booty. Yet happen it does, and for several years, it\’s been serious business in the waters of the Indian Ocean. \”A Hijacking\” is a tense thriller built around the very real modus operandi of the modern pirate scourge.
In the film, the crew of a Danish cargo ship finds itself taken hostage by Somali pirates who demand a ransom of millions from the government and company officials in Copenhagen. As the negotiations drag on, the pirates become more desperate and dangerous. Meanwhile, aboard ship, two members of the crew, Mikkel (Pilou Asb
