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By David O (633) on 24 May 2014

Well made with a realistic feel, but a little too slow paced for my liking…

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By Pavinder A (32) on 23 May 2014

I'd say this was on par with Captain Phillips, which is to say it's mildly engaging but unsurprising…

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By Stefanus Andi G (26) on 06 May 2014

QUALITY film-making. It says as much about humanities will to survive as it does big business's disregard for it…

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By Lee V (201) on 19 Apr 2014

Makes Captain Phillips look like child's play…

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By Dan Schindel (235) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 07 Apr 2014

It aims to not allow you to leave the theater without empathizing with victims of such real-life violence…

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By Stefan N (106) on 28 Mar 2014

Ultimately a film about the nature of value and how the universal meanings we place onto it can either be a gift to the soul or a robbery of the soul…

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By David F (1,889) on 22 Mar 2014

It's not often I watch a foreign language film without subtitles, but this was worth it…

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By Dany L (157) on 19 Feb 2014

I enjoyed this a lot more than Captain Phillips. Great tension as the price of human life is negotiated…

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By Kam Williams (1,272) for Baret News (418) on 16 Feb 2014

Captain Phillips revisited. How do you say 'I'm the captain now!' in Danish…

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By Martin S (921) on 07 Feb 2014

Quietly intense, claustrophobic and artfully told from two very different viewpoints…

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By Eric H (2,898) on 06 Feb 2014

Slow burn thriller featuring the Somali hijacking of a Dutch freighter and the protracted negotiation that ensues…

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By Nico V (19) on 04 Feb 2014

Outstanding performances from several Borgen veterans…

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By Lanky Man P (744) on 30 Jan 2014

A hijacking has everything it needs to be a great film but too much of it doesn't make any sense and it drags on. Why would the pirates be friendly…

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By Austin M (170) on 24 Jan 2014

The realism was the focus of this film, and situation was portrayed well…

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By Jesse O (1,397) on 23 Jan 2014

I get this feeling that, somehow, I'm gonna end up liking this movie better than Captain Phillips…

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By Mark C (1,395) on 20 Jan 2014

The cook and the CEO were the only people in this movie that were similar to real human beings and even they were overly simplistic…

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By Michael H (3,299) on 19 Jan 2014

A pretty taut movie about a pirate hijacking - both on the ship and with the Western negotiators - and how it plays out over seemingly endless…

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By Gordon B (705) on 17 Jan 2014

Swapping gun firing and Navy Seals for tense quiet negotiation scenes, A Hijacking will be compared to its American brother, Captain Phillips…

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By Nicolas K (272) on 05 Jan 2014

The best part was the acting. Most of the suspense and what drew me in the most was from homeland and not the ship…

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By Piers C (36) on 28 Dec 2013

A Somali pirate film which doesn't involve Tom Hanks…

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