“Hijacked”
Year: 2012
Director: Brandon Nutt
Stars: Randy Couture, Dominic Purcell, Vinnie Jones
Studio: Anchor Bay Films
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 90 Mins
Year: 2012
Director: Brandon Nutt
Stars: Randy Couture, Dominic Purcell, Vinnie Jones
Studio: Anchor Bay Films
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 90 Mins
Hijacked is the latest film to star a cast member of “The
Expendables”, The film is about a tough-as-nails
agent named Ross (Randy
Couture), who is on the trail of a crime syndicate known as “The Tribe”. But
when the crime syndicate takes hostage of the plane that belongs to the world’s
richest industrialist, they demand billions or they’ll start killing hostages.
Unfortunately for them, Ross is on the plane. They pissed off the wrong agent,
as he’s willing to stop them to save his ex-fiancé. Now, the agent is very
determined bring down this organization once and for all.
This film was just horrible. Let’s start with the directing.
I didn’t like the directing of this film, one bit. Brandon Nutt’s direction was
flat out lifeless. First, I never thought the villains put fear in me. The
performances were very soft spoken for most of the film and these people weren’t
interesting. I want my villains to at
least put some fear into you, so that it gets you into the flow of the film.
This just didn’t do it for me. The other thing that I didn’t like was Randy
Couture’s performance. There was no attempt to help him bring a tough guy image
to his character. The sad thing is that he actually can do that, as proof in
“The Expendables”. Here, it was the combination of not having experience as a
lead actor and the fact that he isn’t given anything to do. I wanted more from
the acting aspects, but you don’t get it here.
Also, I didn’t think Nutt did a good job handling the action
scenes. Most of the sequences felt bland and very basic. Those are things that
you don’t want to see, when you’re watching an action film. I want to see
scenes that get your adrenalin going. This film doesn’t have that. Maybe it was
because the action was confined, but you need the action to have some suspenseful
elements. This film doesn’t have that
and you stuck watching a film that has uninteresting action sequences.
The script written Declan O Brien wasn’t any better. One of
the things that I didn’t like about the script, the film felt like a typical paint
by the numbers action film. It felt that way for over two thirds of the
story. O’Brien doesn’t do anything to
make this story feel interesting. It was like; he was trying to cram action
scenes into the story without developing the characters. With that, the
characters and especially the villains aren’t developed to the point that
you’re interested. The other thing this
screenplay lacks is any interesting characters. In an action film to work, you
have to have interesting characters. There weren’t any interesting characters that
make you care about the film. The characters felt very flat and very one
dimensional. It’s hard to get excited for a film, when the characters are flat
out dull.
Overall, this was a very disappointed film considering the
cast. “Hijacked” is a very boring film with very dull characters. It will
hijack your time for all the wrong reasons.
That’s why “Hijacked” is a “Screener from Hell”.
