Film Review – A Hijacking

Focusing on acts of intimidation and phone-based negotiation, and the
Danish film “A Hijacking” offers more cinematic suspense than ten visual
effect-laden blockbusters. Spare and serious, the picture is an
outstanding effort exploring the rituals and anguish of life in
captivity, communicated through brilliant performances of pure interior
might and storytelling control that expertly draws out repetition as a
form of tension. Writer/director Tobias Lindholm puts forth a masterful
study of patience and terror, and while it asks the viewer to endure
painful surges in hope and its inevitable depressive fallout, the reward
is an opportunity to view a genuine, riveting human event onscreen.
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