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| Evocative poster for Tobias Lindholm's A Hijacking |
QUICK REVIEW:
A Danish cargo freighter is hijacked off the Somalian coast with 7 crew members. The negotiations to buy them free drag out. We especially follow the cook and the shipping company's CEO, who decides to lead the negotiations himself home in Denmark.
Hijacking continues the realistic approach to a tense, uncomfortable situation that writer-director Tobias Lindholm developed in R: Hit First, Hit Hardest (2010) (with co-writer-director Michael Noer (Northwest (2013)), - in that film about getting imprisoned.)
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| Pilou Asbæk (right) is the crew cook, whom we follow, as he becomes a victim of modern pirating in Tobias Lindholm's A Hijacking |
Hijacking is well-made and well-played by Pilou Asbæk (R), Roland Møller (R), Søren Malling (A Royal Affair (2012)) and Dar Salim (The Devil's Double (2011)).
It is a docu-style dramatic issue thriller shot on location.
A couple of times the air seems to be fizzing out of the narrative, but then the scene is quickly escalated instead. - Well done.
Lindholm, - who also co-wrote the Oscar-nominated pedophilia drama thriller The Hunt (2012), - is writing at the moment, on a documentary entitled The Arms Drop (2014) and a war-drama feature again with Asbæk entitled April 9th (2015).
Watch the trailer with English subtitles here
Budget: Est. 2.7 mil. $
Box office: Unknown (US 0.4 mil. $)
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What do you think of A Hijacking?
If you have seen the similar, recent, big Hollywood 'version', Captain Philips (2013), can you compare the two?
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