High hopes

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 cell phones and guns as they go about killing passengers.

Esha Deol, 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.