High Jack

*ing: Sumeet Vyas, Mantra, Sonnalli Seygall

Rated: 4/10

Unless written and directed brilliantly, attempted comedies on urgent subjects, like a hijack in this film, either fall flat or pick up much too slowly or go way off the mark. High Jack, full of potential of a humorous film in the midst of a mismanaged hijack by novices, suffers from all the three loopholes and, thus, fails to make an impact.

A non-star film, with vaguely familiar faces in the lead, High Jack starts and ends with a high that never happens and a low that never lets go. A failed DJ high in debt is carrying a drug consignment for money to save his father’s clinic  but gets stuck on the hijacked Goa to Delhi flight of an airline which is bankrupt and all set to close after this last run.

Disgruntled employees hijack the plane with no experience of such acts and fall into a chaotic mess which was supposed to keep the viewer interest alive in the hall but by the time the travellers go high, the film is all but over.

Maybe a little more thought could have saved this movie.