El secuestro de 1993

This is one hijack movie with a difference. There is less of action, more of conversation and a good portion of the movie deals with back stories of the young, naive and inexperienced hijackers. In all probability the real event had more excitement.

The director has not given the required pace to the narrative and the intermittent back stories of the four hijackers only served to slow down an already slow movie. These sob stories with bittersweet background music were rather over sentimental and boring. In any case poverty and misery of family members of hijackers could not be convincingly connected to a hijacking plan.

Nothing in the movie like direction, acting, dialogue can be considered even mediocre and is of a passable standard. The anxiety and tension of the passengers does not look realistic at all.

The scenes of negotiations however are done well. These are the redeeming feature of this uniformly insipid and unimpressive movie.