The omission seems a missed opportunity, especially since most of the audience probably doesn’t know how men in small boats wrest control of a much larger vessel. Peter learns something’s wrong when he’s told the captain is incommunicado, and the film swoops back to the ship, where the crew cowers on the floor as the attackers brandish weapons. The movie doesn’t even show the initial moments of the assault on the ship. Too many scenes are shot in offices, and too many of them aren’t particularly tense. Restraint is welcome, especially in the dog days of a summer that brings us the explosive excess of White House Down and the upcoming Pacific Rim, but A Hijacking may be too laid back for its own good. The description of The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt Hail to the CaptainSail into the heart of the Caribbean in the Age of Piracy the time of black flags and white skulls, blue waves and golden opportunities.Hoist the Jolly Roger and grab the steering wheel to sail through battles and raids, ransoms and treasures, to become the Crimson King of. Instead, A Hijacking plays down just about every showy, terrifying aspect of the ordeal and concentrates instead on the mind games between the company CEO Peter (Soren Malling), who is hoping to negotiate his crew’s freedom without loss of life (or overpaying) Omar the interpreter (Abdihakin Asgar), who claims he’s not a pirate but clearly has some sort of deal worked out with the attackers and Mikkel (Pilou Asbaek), a frightened cook who just wants to get home to his wife and daughter. In the hands of an American filmmaker, you’d expect a series of bloody action sequences and men driven beyond endurance shouting into telephones. The Danish film A Hijacking is a well-acted, understated thriller about a freighter hijacked by Somali pirates who hold the ship and crew of seven for ransom.
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