99min
Denmark (Danish and English)
Genre: Thriller
Writer/director: Tobias Lindholm
Cast: Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling, Dar Salim.
Plot
A crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked by Somali pirates
Indian Ocean. Mikkel the ships chef, Jan
the chief engineer are taken hostage along with the injured captain and the rest
of the crew. Their lives all depend on the negotiation team headed by the CEO
of the shipping company back in Denmark, but a tense psychological drama is
unfolding between the CEO and the pirates.
Review
Tobias Lindholm is one of the writers of Borgen the popular
crime series. This film is equally as
tense and is set in realism, documenting the human cost of the hostages who are
confined to unsanitary quarters and the huge responsibility the negotiation
team is tasked with, with responsibility to both the company and to the family’s
of the hostages.
The pirates are not subtitled so it’s impossible to know
what they are saying, in one scene Mikkel (Pilou
Asbæk) and Jan ((Roland Møller) try to make friends and
they think they have till the man turns nasty and threatening. Scenes like these really rack up the tension
the feeling of complete helplessness for the men trapped on board the vessel. Their
feelings of desperation are all to understandable.
The CEO (Søren Malling) is having an equally difficult time
in his clean and cool boardroom, he offends the pirates negotiator by calling
him a pirate making him angry and weakening the CEO position.
The situation might be heading out of control.
4 out of 5 stars.
