High hopes

Movie name: Hijack
Directed by: Kunal Shivdasani
Cast: Shiney Ahuja, Esha Deol, K K Raina
Showing at: Inox, city pride kothrud, Citypride Satara road, Mangala

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 there8217;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 it8217;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 she8217;d rather be elsewhere. Kaun ho tum, chale jao, she tells the guy who8217;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.