Hijack

Director: Kunal Shivdasani

More terrorists, this time in a plane, with a similar demand. Release our man, or we start shooting holes in the passengers.

Hijack is a mix of Executive Decision and Die Hard. So there’s a rescue attempt-of-the-bad-guys, ripped off from the first, and a rescue attempt-of-the-passengers, taken from the second. But it’s all very amateurish: the Home Ministry gang includes a pant-suited woman constantly widening her eyes, and the hijackers juggle cellphones and guns as they go about killing passengers.

Esha, as the terrified air-hostess, looks as if she’d rather be elsewhere . “Kaun ho tum, chale jao”, she tells the guy who’s trying to help. Huh? Who wrote these lines? And poor Shiney Ahuja, as the man-on-the-spot in black singlet and pants, is hopelessly miscast. Imagine having to live up to Bruce Willis.