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.

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.

Denise Richards plays an FBI hostage negotiator who is being banished to a desk job. On her flight she is upgraded after an altercation with an obese passenger and ends up sitting next to a charming Brit in first class. When the Brit sees Dolph Lundgren on the plane he offers Richards $50 million dollars to get him off the plane safely. Pretty soon the bad guys take over the plane.

Altitude AKA Hijack is a bad action film with a terrible script and mostly shot in the dark so you can hardly see a thing. It is low budget and low wattage action. An awful dog of a film.