Skyjacked
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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.
Movie Review: just terrible
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie is a total waste of time- except maybe for the sequences showing the 707 in flight- still a beautiful airplane.
The plot is contrived, and stupid. Charleton Heston is his usual overacting self- and most all the other actors seem to be just going through the motions. Roosevelt Greer was attempting to build a career as an actor at the time, and you can clearly see why he's not acting now. James Brolin's performance as the hijacker is embarassing to watch, particularly when he starts to look like a wild-eyed lunatic.
One of my favorite parts of this movie is when the Soviet fighters (North American F-100 Super Sabers)intercept the airliner in Alaska and then proceed to escort it ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE SOVIET UNION to Moscow.
One particularly hilarious thing is where they dub a deeper voice for John Fiedler (the mousey guy who always played a dormat.) Apparently his real voice was too high pitched. However, his character is so minor in the movie that they could have cast anyone.