Hijack, real-time thriller miniseries choral in form only. With great acting

Thursday, August 3, 2023 – Reviews

Sam Nelson is a passenger on a direct flight from Dubai to London. He wants to get in touch with his ex-wife, perhaps in a last resort attempt at reconciliation, even if she has another partner, police officer Daniel. But on flight KA29, the unexpected happens: some of the passengers are actually hijackers who take over the plane without knowing their goals. While the British government fears a terrorist attack and a suicide mission, Sam follows his own plan to undermine the criminal plan by pretending to go along with it.

The myth of the real-time series has been around since the success of 24, and the production, conceived by George Kay and Jim Field Smith, lives up to the story, turning a seven-hour flight into the same number of episodes of a very high-energy miniseries.

However, if one undoubtedly recognizes the magnetic presence in the Elbe, it is equally objective to note that this is not enough to fill the gaps of a product that does not live up to expectations. Everything goes off-screen, confirming that the focus remains on the character of Sam Nelson, the only insight that really matters in a series that is more choral in form than in substance.

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