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Denise Richards is an FBI agent who can't follow orders. She is being sent from the field to a desk job. On the flight back, a man sitting next to her (Kirk Barker) informs her that the plane is going to be hijacked and offers her $50 million dollars to get him off safety. Soon it becomes a battle of Denise Richards vs a bunch of bad guys lead by Dolph Lundgren.

They are flying "Speed Bird Airlines" which has enough room in the aisles in first class for some good fighting as long as the camera is jerking. It is not a double decker plane, making it difficult to elude capture, but it is a movie. Denise is able to overpower men twice her size in a matter of moments, but another woman is a dragged out cat-fight. Dolph plays bad guy pilot. We see his face a lot while sitting in a chair and except for about 30 seconds of fighting they could of had Wally Cox play the part. It appears camera jerking is the official substitution for fight choreography.

Except for brief opening and ending scenes, the entire film is shot on a plane. The plot is simple and linear with a slight attempted twist. A rather lazy script with half-hearted performances.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

"Altitude" defies logic, science and common sense in a manner so blatant to border on contempt for the audience.

For example:

Automobiles have sensors to warn the driver of various problems. Even motorcycles have switched that prevent operation if the kickstand is down. But the commercial passenger jet in this movie takes off without the pilot knowing that a door is open.

Part of the plot involves switching out a major component on the plane, but components on aircraft are serialized and extensive records are maintained of all maintenance operations, ensuring the switch would be discovered.

At one point the plane takes off with somebody more than halfway outside the door. The takeoff speed for Jet aircraft in the 130 – 155 knot range, which is the speed of major hurricane winds, powerful enough to flip over vehicles and blow barns away. Anybody clinging to the door would be swept away.

At one point, two individuals do a tandem parachute jump simply holding on to one another. When a parachute is deployed, the individual experiences a jerk of 3 – 4 g. I believe this means somebody weighing 120# will momentarily seem to weigh about 420#. You really need sturdy straps and harnesses for a tandem jump.

The plot entails an elaborate scheme to hijack an aircraft in order to steal something being carried by one of the passengers when it would seem much easier to hijack the guy's taxi or limousine on the way to the airport.

The film also defies logic by getting made in the first place. Each year, about 50,000 scripts are registered with WGA. Probably an equal number are written, but not registered. In 2015, 727,000 new books were self-published. While not all were novels, there are countless stories written each year that could be adapted as screenplays. Why would anybody invest hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, in a script with obvious problems when there are countless better scripts that could be acquired at modest expense? As a writer, I've read dozens of better scripts and novels that could be adapted and produced on a comparable budget. It seems grotesquely inequitable that a writer is able to sell a script that is poorly researched and constructed when so many better scripts can't even get read.

Dolph Lundgren and Denise Richards do as well as can be expected with the material they're given. The glaring incongruities and implausibilities shatter the willful suspension of disbelief and the story isn't sufficiently interesting or involving to sweep the audience along. The characters aren't particularly likable or interesting. Without impressive fight choreography, chase scenes or special effects, the film needs either a fascinating plot or interesting characters, but offers neither.

This was the most ridiculous load of crap I have seen in.... well EVER! I'm not going to warn about any "Spoilers" because this thing was totally rotten from the moment this load dropped off the radar and into a toilet near you. All I can say is that the people who actually gave this thing high ratings are either being paid or they saw a different film. I can say one more thing; Denise Richards as an FBI Agent is about as believable as Denise Richards at the controls of a Starship.... don't waste your time unless you are planning a flight in the near future and you want to be aware of something that wouldn't happen in a million years.

Wow...i don't even know where to begin with this movie. Poor denise richards. From starship troopers to this?

The writing of the movie was just awful. Like it was written by a high school freshman. The dialogue was just one of the many things that made this movie unrealistic. I will be here all day trying to list everything that's wrong with this movie. So i'll just list a few major things I found wrong.

...................Spoilers ahead......................................

I guess the people who made the film didn't even bother to look into the reality of flight. When the plane first takes off in the beginning why does the pilot retract the landing gear after the plane is above the clouds? When dolph lundgren's character takes over the plane and announces a drop in cabin pressure why does the hijacking crew put on gas masks instead of oxygen masks? A gas mask wont help you if there's no oxygen. The "air marshall" character was the most useless of all. By the time it's revealed that he is on the take i found his character so annoying that it didn't matter to me that he was a bad guy.

There are also many unrealistic aspects of the decompression of the cabin. In reality, there is a limited amount of air in the cabin of a plane so if a door is ripped off it will only take seconds for the cabin to depressurize and everyone inside will lose consciousness and die soon after. So,at the end of the movie, how are all the characters inside of the cabin at high altitude still conscious after the door has been ripped off? They're not wearing oxygen masks so they should be dead.

Also how is it that the plane is being tracked by the same flight control tower throughout its entire flight?!

Also when the plane landed, in whoknowswhereland, after it was hijacked and denise richard's character is evacuating everyone off the plane via the rear slide, how are people not being hit with the jet blast from the engines that are running at take off speed?! And in order for an airplane to take off it has to reach speeds well over 100 mph so how are all the passengers sliding from the plane safely to the ground?

The producers of this film were just lazy. I've seen low budget films that were at least somewhat realistic but this......this was just sad.

This movie is so ridiculous that it will leave you begging the question: who in the production company saw this script and said,"YES! This will make a great movie!"? I'll bet somebody's getting fired!!

HIJACKED is a cheap B-movie thriller about a gang of criminals taking over a passenger plane and letting rip. It's a cheap, chaotic production, filled with bad humour and cheesy effects; some of the supporting performers are very wooden, as well as some of the leads, come to mention it. An aged Denise Richards is the closest thing this has to a protagonist; she plays a passenger drawn into a murky plot involving thieves, betrayal and Dolph Lundgren cameoing as one of the bad guys for a change. None of this is remotely possible to take seriously, and the fight scenes are particularly poorly staged, but it is rather amusing in an unintentional way.

So I started to watch this movie in the hopes that there is an FBI agent and she is gonna take back the plane and was really psyched to watch an action thriller

I was disappointed when the movie ended, it had so many flaws even in acting and forget the script, at one point it was shown that the female villain was sat in the cockpit moving while a rough take-off and it was so clear that she was deliberately moving and no one laughs while a rough take-off,

The script was one of the worst scripts ever written as there were no catchy lines, the actor offering her millions of dollars, this shows how corrupt she was to not even check why he was offering so much money and started protecting him until all of the movie passed and he told her that he was a thief, so in the end it turns out that even the lead actress was a bad person too

At one point, they landed the plane, that runway where they landed seemed so fake.

As a sum up this movie was badly acted out, badly edited, and had an awful script, as someone said in the review that we don't know who thought that this was a good script to use it in a movie

Will not recommend to anyone and I can only say that you can watch an old 70s weird action thriller and the acting will be way better than this

The acting was horrible. The writing was even worse. Spoiler alert...really? I should have known it was going to be bad since Dolph Lundgren was part of the cast. Reality TV is better. The fact that I had to write more than 5 lines to write this review was tragic in and of itself. ......................................................

(Possible spoilers) It pains me to admit that I watched this movie (okay, most of it). It also pains me to admit that Denise Richards is NOT the worst thing about this movie. For a while, she actually isn't too bad. Unfortunately, she isn't too great either.

There IS, in fact, a plot in this movie (unlike others of its ilk). However, without going into great detail, I came away from this movie with several unanswered questions:

1. Why are Denise Richards'cheekbones so pointy? Did she have that done deliberately? And why are they only pointy at certain angles? 2. Why is the female antagonist roughly 14 years old? 3. Why is Dolph Lundgren's character answering to her/apparently involved with her? 4. Again, because she's like, 14 years old? Am I the only one seeing this???? 5. Does Dolph Lundgren take Valium before he does these straight-to-DVD things, or what? 6.'Cause he seemed comatose for most of this movie. At least he was relaxed, right? 7. This movie needed snakes. Lots of them.

That's what I came away with. Spare yourselves ... take a different flight. Watch "Airplane!" again. Pray that this movie is someday used by MST3K! But don't waste your time or your money.

(On a side note: Lundgren's recent guest spin on "Arrow" shows that he's capable of far better things. Here's hoping "Aquaman" will make those things possible for him.)

I knew it was going to be bad when Denise Richards tells the guy sitting in a window seat to the right of the aircraft that he's sitting in her seat 44A. A is ALWAYS the window seat on the left side of aircraft. If nobody bother to check or even notice this error, I knew the film was going to be interestingly very unrealistic.

I wanted to watch this movie because i love Dolph but, um he is hardly in it and just makes a lot of facial expressions when he is. so uh, a group thugs/thieves hijack a plane because one of the partners in crime stole from them. lets see, could they of perhaps followed him from the plane and taken it. oh sorry logic. i don't understand why those type of masks the hired guns wore, served no purpose. and passengers jumping out of a moving plane over water, seriously. at that speed, they would be ripped apart. they did a lousy job of stunt woman and Denise. gosh i couldn't tell stunt or Denise. lol and the parachute scene, laughable. Denise Richards stellar acting (sarcasm), guess that's why she is only in b-movies eh so to sum it up, bad acting, stupid plot

Called 'hijacked' On RakutenTV

What can I say?

Very poor script Very poor acting Very poor special effects Well actually ..... very poor everything!

I guess it's what they call 'Straight to DVD' for sale in a £ shop :(

Within the first few minutes I said, "This has got to be a satire." I was hooked, "What kind of movie is this?" The male flight attendant confirmed this first impression by dancing down the aisle singing, while passengers jeered and told him to shut up. Soft lighting on the female flight attendant, harsh lighting on the protagonist. Was the first a robotic Stepford Wife? The latter anorexic? Every few minutes another plot, dialog, continuity or prop error. What was going on? What kept my attention was anticipating the next jolting persistence of disbelief. "Look at that!" "It's pathetic!" "Who wrote, directed, DPed, lit the scenes and created the FX?" "Didn't anyone on the set notice?" I thought of Dolly Parton's words, "It takes a lot of money to look this cheap." The conversations with flight control were wrong and the flight controller's screens were of Los Angeles. The fights were clumsy. Others reviewers have listed the most egregious shots. I took delight in chalking up each fault. The final scene of the protagonists parachuting had me almost out of my seat: there they were, together at last, probably standing on the floor with harness and rope disappearing off the screen above. The ubiquitous fake snow flying (or was it sandpaper on a rotating drum) and yet they didn't sway one millimeter during their descent, if it was supposed to be a descent. They were as fixed as statues with the Himalayan alps silhouetted in the background. "It takes a lot of work to make a film this bad." A film this bad can make us all feel good...

As I am writing this, Altitude has a 7.3 rating on IMDb. Either there is a database error or an army of trolls has been up-voting this movie for some reason.

It. was. bad.

So bad.

Dolph Lundgren should have been a clue. But the rating fooled me.

I cannot even begin to recount all the stupid things in the script, and I wonder if the writers have even been on a plane. Just the fact that Denise Richards character angrily yells at a passenger that he is in her seat. "My ticket says 44A". And he is in the window seat to the right of the aisle ...

Anyway. To sum up. Do not watch this movie. Unless you enjoy crap.