Monday, October 21, 2013

A Hijacking

 Here's a good Danish movie.  A Hijacking (2012) is about a Danish cargo ship that's taken by African pirates.

If you're looking for "Die Hard VIII: Vengeance On The High Seas" this is not your movie.

This is a slow-developing (at first), highly-suspenseful drama - more concerned with humanity than bullet-ridden bad buys. Thank you, Denmark!

The acting is great. It seemed more like a documentary than fiction. But I really liked its use of subtitles and different languages. These may seem like a trivial things, but writer/director Tobias Lindholm uses these better than any movie I've ever seen before.

I, personally, would've made a couple different choices than Lindholm did later in the film. But it really is a personal, suspenseful drama worth renting!

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