Skyjacked
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Charlton Heston, Claude Akins, James Brolin, Jeanne Crain, Yvette Mimieux Director: John Guillermin Brand: HESTON,CHARLTON Cinematographer: Harry Stradling Jr. Editor: Robert Swink Producer: James C. Pratt Producer: Walter Seltzer Writer: David Harper Writer: Stanley R. Greenberg DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 101 minutes DVD Release Date: 2007-06-26 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Warner Home Video |
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Movie Reviews of Skyjacked
Movie Review: Camp is right! A look back after 35 years
Summary: 2 Stars
I saw this 1972 film as a child and just loved it (this was a year before my loyalty shifted to POSEIDON ADVENTURE). I remember even reading David Harper's novel ("Hijacked") because this film made such an impression on me. Well, when I saw that it was finally being released on DVD I was a little insulted that it was being released by Warners as a "Cult Camp Classic." Well, Warners' is accurate in their labeling. My pre-teen memories of a great film was shattered by watching this low-budget disaster flick 35 years later.
While not the howler of hilarity that AIRPORT 79: THE CONCORD is, this flick barely has the production values above a TV-movie and boats some really terrible acting. I'm surprised James Brolin ever got another job after this attempt to out-twitch Anthony Perkins.
Don't get your hopes up just because its directed by John Guillermin. Sure, he's responible for TOWERING INFERNO and DEATH ON THE NILE, but he also directed SHAFT IN AFRICA, SHEENA QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE and the 1976 version of KING KONG. And this clunker is more like the latter three films.
Jeanne Crain is wasted in her final film. Also wasted intheir film debuts are Leslie Uggams (she's much better utilized in BLACK GIRL, also filmed in 1972) and Susan Dey (so zombie-like that she seems to have lost all the natural charm she had on THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY). Rosie Grier obviously put all his efforts into the absurdly entertaining THE THING WITH TWO HEADS, that was filmed the same year.
The biggest laughs are from all the smoking that goes on in the cockpit. Every time Charlton Heston lights up his pipe, his co-pilot and navigator smirk as if there's some inside-joke. Its a wonder he can see the runway with all that smoke in the cockpit.