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 Hijacked: Flight 285 (DVD)
Description: Genre: Crime & Thriller - Thriller / Theatrical Release: 1996 / Actors: James Brolin, Ally Sheedy ... / DVD released 16 ... more  Hijacked: Flight 285 (DVD) ... November, 2006 at Allumination / Features of the DVD: NTSCNewest Review: ... FBI agents were guarding a convicted murderer as he was being transferred between prisons. The murderer, Peter Cronin, is ... more ... played by Anthony Michael Hall, but even his great acting is not enough to bring alive this film. The plot is very laboured and moves along at a very slow pace. Two armed friends of his release Cronin from the FBI agents and together the three of them hijack the plane and demand to be taken to Dallas. His fellow hijackers are Andrew Leary (played by James Lancaster) and Shayna Loring (played by Hudson Leick). Hudson Leick is very attractive and she is really the only highlight of the film. Peter Cronin uses the aircr...more |
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Hijacked: Flight 285 (DVD): Very Slow…(Yawn). (388 words)
by daseaford - written on 30.01.02 (Useful, 93 readings)
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I normally enjoy thriller films but I am afraid that I found this movie very disappointing. As with most aircraft type disaster films the first ten minutes of the film were spent introducing us to the passengers as they made their way to the airport for flight 285 from Phoenix to JFK airport. It was the usual mix of an old couple, a man in a wheelchair, an arguing couple and of course a small child. But unknown to the passengers as they boarded the aircraft, was that at the back of the plane two FBI agents were guarding a convicted murderer as he was being transferred between prisons. The murderer, Peter Cronin, is played by Anthony Michael Hall, but ...
