HIJACK'D is a cheap and cheerful TV movie detailing a plane which is hijacked by a computer geek. A renegade pilot is the only guy who has the power to fight back against this mastermind, so the race is on to save the day and the passengers. And if that high drama wasn't enough, a girl has been bitten by a poisonous spider so it's a race against time to save her, too. This is laughably cheesy entertainment, with wooden cast members whose performances range between boredom and overacting. I was amused to see Francoise Yip, the femme fatale of Hong Kong cinema, in a supporting role, but this is nothing to get excited about.

Something about a computer hacker hijacking the first self-driven plane is what you'll get in this instantly forgettable made-for-TV cut-rate thriller. Not awful enough to outright detest, bu not nearly competent enough to get invested in the film. I guess the most one can say for I is that it is wahat it is. Nothing special to see more. Good fodder for having something as background noise while you do something else. Not the type of film that you'll miss any huge plot points if you choose to only pay fleeting attention to. The most noteworthy thing is that it took 5 writers to come up with this tripe.Eye Candy: Rachel Hayward gets topless

.... No I don`t mean the movie I mean the fact that in this American TVM the bad guy is a foreigner and he`s not British . Wow what a stroke of genius that is , the genuis . Unfortunately that`s the only radical thing about CABIN PRESSURE . Despite not being British the villain is one major cliche , a computer geek who wears a red polo neck sweater , green cords , greasy hair and spectacles , and who`s a socially inept loner whose only friend is a spider . This goes beyond cliche and becomes close to offensive . Within 20 minutes you`re wishing the computer geek is from Britain and is played by Gary Oldman or Sean Bean .And even if the producers had the money for a big name Brit actor there`s no way a star name would want to sully their reputation by appearing in this rubbish . And make no mistake this is rubbish . The bad guy is unconvincing as is the hero who`s a former alcoholic . I guess being a bland cypher he need an identifiable character flaw but that doesn`t disguise the fact that he`s just there to spout lines and save the day . But the lack of characterisation is the least of the problems with the script , let`s look at the whole concept of a computer controlled plane :isn`t there something totally ridiculous with the whole concept ? I mean I`m sure that in real life someone has thought up the whole idea and dismissed it precisely on the grounds of someone hacking into the controls . Oh look out for a very contrived plot twist where someone turns up at the hospital after being bitten by a funnel web spider , which also leads to a plot hole by the hero not asking about an Austin Powers lookalikeSo what would I have done with the script ? It`s very simple , one of the characters on the plane is Senator Caulfield who is on the plane with his son and daughter in law . The daughter in law is called Brandee and she is a very fit blonde and the whole film would have worked if it was set around the premise of the computer geek being a bit of a perv and demanding the senator have sex with Brandee or else he will crash the plane . This would lead to cinema goers all over the world to discuss INDECENT PROPOSAL type questions like " If some pervy geek had hacked into a plan`s control system would you have depraved sex with your father in law if your life depended upon it ? "

This is a semi-spoiler in that you need to know a little of the plot to follow the comments.Since this is an airplane disaster movie, the one thing in its favor is that you will never be forced to watch it on a plane. It truly has little to offer. Basically, this is the preposterous story of a fully automated plane that is hacked into by a former software designer for it as a means of revenge. By the way, it's also an opportunity to offend Australians. For what it's worth, no plane will ever be so automated that it takes a laptop to revert to manual control, or that loses all hydraulic power when the computers go down. Also, despite Star Trek, computers don't blow out sparks and smoke when mis-programmed.Watch "Fate is the Hunter", or any of a number of good airplane movies. This is not one of them.