Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

StuOz A passenger plane is skyjacked.If Chuck Heston were not in this, you might confuse Skyjacked as a TV movie rather than a feature. But yes, it is a feature film.The great acting from the whole cast makes this movie a must-see.The first 50 minutes is filled with suspense as we are never totally sure who the bad guy is, but once the cat is out of the bag, the film is a bit routine.The movie would have been better if the plane remained in the air for the whole flick, once we are on the ground the danger element is lowered.Airport (1970) was like this film in a few ways but that movie had a powerful music score playing over it, the Skyjacked score is so low- key you don't even notice it.

Theo Robertson !!!! SUGGESTIVE SPOILERS !!!! The problem with a film like this is that the central plot has been done so many times over the following decades . Man sneaks bomb on board a plane . To be honest the premise of SKYJACKED wasn't earth shatteringly original in 1972 because it had been used previously in the original AIRPORT movie a couple of years earlier and it does have a slight feel that it's trying to cash in on a very successful previous movie Perhaps because it's such an old film SKYJACKED does have one thing in its favour and that is ironically the entirely dated feel as to what life was like for plane passengers in the early 1970s . It might be seen inconvenient these days but there's a very good reason why airport security is notoriously pedantic and that is to stop passengers smuggling aboard a bag full of contraband such as explosives and firearms on to a plane , but the idea of someone holding a gun in one hand and a grenade in another with a request of " Hello there . I wish to speak to the captain of this plane " would not have seemed absurd in 1972 One interesting aspect that does seem groundbreaking is having the villain a violent sociopath from a military background alienated by his reaction from civilian society is stock villainy and has been for several decades . The idea of a deranged Vietnam veteran is effectively an invention of Hollywood and we all remember Travis Bickle from TAXI DRIVER and John Eastland from THE EXTERMINATOR along with a line sampled from Paul Hardcastle's 19 . The reality was that veterans from that particular conflict only had a slightly more than average mental health problem and criminal tendency from the average male demographic of that era . True but the myth remains and as John Ford was fond of saying " Always print the legend "

pwalkerfm I just revisited this after not seeing it since I was 12 in a theater. I must say, this movie holds up quite well. Yes, it is dated in places, but a 40-year old film naturally will be. Good suspense, a little soap opera fluff here and there, but never gets in the way of the story. Much more serious in overall tone than "Airport" from just a couple years earlier. Brolin is excellent as the crazed ex-soldier, and Heston is very good, in probably one of his last good roles. I would recommend this for both disaster-movie buffs, and aviation buffs, as it delivers for both. Also, gotta love Partridge Susan Dey in probably her first motion picture after her TV success.

JasparLamarCrabb There's a certain amount of fun to be had trying to keep count of how many times Charlton Heston uses the word "damn" in SKYJACKED, but other than that, this is a pretty goofy potboiler. Director John Guillermin tries mightily to infuse the film with some substance by including some awkward flashbacks but they just come off as silly, adding nothing to the development of a lot of cardboard characters. Heston is the captain of an airliner hijacked by kooky James Brolin. All of the passengers are let go save for the (semi) all-star first class passengers: Walter Pidgeon; Susan Dey; Rosie Grier; Jeanne Crain. Foxy Yvette Mimieux is the head stewardess involved in a love triangle with Heston and co-pilot Mike Henry and Mariette Hartley plays a pregnant woman. It's ridiculous, escapist fun.