A Hijacking

Name: A Hijacking
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: June 21, 2013
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 82

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: June 21, 2013 | R

Summary: After hijacking the crew of a Danish cargo ship, Somali pirates engage in tense and lengthy negotiations with officials in Copenhagen.

Director: Tobias Lindholm

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 103 min

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Farran Smith Nehme

Jun 20, 2013

A Hijacking is Lindholm’s second feature as director; he’s also worked with such austere Danes as Thomas Vinterberg of Dogme 95 fame. What he’s learned, it seems, is how to strip away distractions, and let character become suspense, as well as destiny. Read full review

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The Playlist Oliver Lyttelton

Mar 18, 2013

The film isn’t a white knuckle ride, and the pacing can be slow at times, but this is one of those cases where that’s sort of the point, and you certainly don’t begrudge it. A Hijacking is an absorbing, highly moving film. Read full review

Joe Williams

Jul 12, 2013

Director Lindholm is a graduate of the Dogma school, and he is able to maintain tension with a documentary camera technique, virtually no music and minimal on-screen theatrics. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Mar 18, 2013

Hostage thrillers are all-too-often shrill affairs, with clock-watching screenwriters wringing maximum melodrama from spiraling disorder. Not so Tobias Lindholm’s superb A Hijacking, which actually grows more chillingly subdued as its nightmare scenario unfolds. Read full review

David Edelstein

Jun 17, 2013

It’s an unshowy, quietly intense drama with grace notes in every scene — and a hellish punch. Read full review

Matt Glasby

May 14, 2013

It’s actually a ruthlessly plausible thriller, stripped clean of music and melodrama, and all the more engrossing for it. Read full review

Time Out London Cath Clarke

May 14, 2013

A Hijacking’ is gripping in the way the best Danish TV is – in its no-frills authenticity. Read full review

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LeoKearse

Apr 17, 2016

I saw this in the cinema and it was sickeningly tense and felt very real. It shows the impact on the crew and the executives negotiating for their return, and it was fascinating seeing the business behind a hijacking, on both the hijackers' and the shipping company's sides. A very lean, wellI saw this in the cinema and it was sickeningly tense and felt very real. It shows the impact on the crew and the executives negotiating for their return, and it was fascinating seeing the business behind a hijacking, on both the hijackers' and the shipping company's sides. A very lean, well constructed film. Superior to the similar film Captain Phillips, which was also good but a little too cliched.… Expand