Where to watch Hijack
1 1/2 Stars
When a prestigious Senator boards a train at Union Station, he is expecting an emblematic, smooth ride. However, his trip is ferociously interrupted when a militia group hijacks the train, taking him and several other passengers as hostages and planting a nuclear bomb somewhere on board. A gallant ATF Agent who happens to be a passenger on the train is the one man who just may be capable of both freeing the hostages and defusing the bomb before time runs out.
There isn’t much to be excited about in the by-the-numbers action thriller Hijack, aka The Last Siege. This is a slow-moving story that takes way too long to develop and get to the action bits. Hijack is overly talky, and this is to disguise the fact that the budget obviously didn’t allow for big set pieces, so instead we get a shootout in a crammed train car, and the rest is just as unremarkable. Ernie Hudson and Jeff Fahey are fine and deliver professional performances in a film that is inconsequential to their careers.
Worth Keeter typically delivers solid work on the B-movie level, so I was glad to see his screen credit, figuring it would be (at the very least) a guilty pleasure, and I was dead wrong. Hijack is another shoestring production from producers Armitroj and Stevens, who would reuse this train set in at least three other films. The finished product seems as if it rolled off an assembly line at the cliche factory. I’ll make the point that there isn’t much room for ingenuity in a B-movie about a train siege, but I do expect to be entertained, and Hijack failed me in that department.
Directed by: Worth Keeter
Written by: Steve Latshaw
Starring: Jeff Fahey, Ernie Hudson, Beth Toussaint