The colorism in this film. How would the character of Marie, who was half Senegalese and half Nigerian come out looking like a biracial woman? Because she supposed to be feminine, she couldn’t be dark like she would have been in real life?
This movie was deeply underwhelming! It failed to provoke any form of emotion whatsoever, everything you said man, it gave lazy acting , directing everything , The story had potential I wish they did more with it, even if it didn’t happen that way, a lil fiction here and there would have been nice , also nice touch with the twitter review, we want more of that lol
Thanks so much for reviewing this film. I had headache watching this movie it made me feel like something was wrong with me. Very Very poor movie why putting it on Netflix self film wey AIT CHANNEL
I totally agree. It's the worst Nigerian movie of 2024!!! The most ridiculous scene was when the woman gave birth on the plane and started gisting with the hijacker right after-like labour is a piece of cake. None of the passengers even looked scared. Everything about the movie was just ridiculous: poor story, poor plot, very boring, no direction, no climax, irrelevant scenes. It's a -2/10 for me. Netflix should throw it out.
You didn't disappoint. Charles of Play didn't disappoint either to be honest. Watching this review is me watching the movie. Cause I just can't deal. I am still yet to watch Glamour Girls and the studio is working on a sequel already 😂😂😂
The hijacked people were sleeping peacefully. No fear in their faces, no urgency from d supposed military onground. Everyone just doing as if they are reading story book.
😂😂😂 The one that finished me was the woman who delivered a baby on the plane and let one of the hijackers carry the baby. 😄 It’s like those hostages were in a different universe. 😆
Imagine missing a major detail like the name of an actor in the film.. like forget it the movie can't be good. New subscriber..I love love love your channel. I've been saying it that our stories and dialogue are whack. They lack imagination and authenticity. It's not even the acting that's bad sometimes the acting can be really good, it's the story that's bad most times.
Love your review! I agree with most of everything you said. 😃 I think we have to remember this was 1993 and these guys were regular young guys 16-18 year old all with issues at home. A strong figure “the guy” possibly brainwashed them. Maybe the producers didn’t do a good job depicting that. The “lie about a soldier “ on board was to figure who was helping the hijackers ( hostess told one thing to hostess A and another to hostess B) so that helped figure who the mole was. With the poison they could have marked the food to give the guy ( his father was prominent ) so they had to save him at all cost. I read in real life he was supposed to be the son of a Chinese V.P something like that.
First, was the doctor using a stethoscope to tell us the guy has high fever. Second, the son democrat was wearing an Apple Watch lol. I made the mistake to watch it before your review , and I’m highly disappointed. I’ll take half of the jollof they don’t deserve it. 🤣
Thanks Tito, I came here yesterday to see your review on the movie after I watched it to confirm if there was something wrong with me but it yout review wasn't live yet. Alas, its true that the movie is a complete waste of time. What was that about showing Sharon at the end mingling with the terrorists while Jemimah was accused wrongly. Kai dem no try at all
Why does Tito insist on calling the hijackers the movie’s “antagonists” when they are clearly the protagonists, and complain that they were not portrayed as fearsome enough when clearly the movie wants you to sympathize with them? That’s so strange to me… like, are you u familiar with the concept of antiheroes?
The movie was rife with anachronisms and looked nothing like 1993… but I’m going to disagree with you on the skullcaps. We absolutely did wear those in 1993, as well as doorags. Naughty by Nature were extremely popular in Nigeria and lots of young men adopted Treach’s look with the doorags. Confra boys (and guys who wanted to look like Confra boys) wore them too.
More research and better script writing was needed. Too many climaxes in the movie that towards the end i just wanted the movie to end. The acting showcase the poor script writing and research. The storyline didn't make sense as a whole for me. I didn't understand some of the transitions it wasn't smooth.
Yeah, but the military didn’t know how inept and confused the hijackers were. We only knew bcos we were shown what was going on inside the plane. ✈️ Also, the military probably didn’t know how many hijackers there were and they didn’t want to risk civilian casualties. But how they stormed the plane in the end sef didn’t seem very mindful of the civilians on board.
For Tito not to like anything about the movie, then e bad true true because I know you to find even at least a single thing to like in a not so good movie
The actors just seem not needed in the movie, sharon nanacy and ini dinma just seem not needed, cause they werent given time, its cool sha the story isnt about them 😂😂😂
Well, I haven't seen the movie, so I can't comment on anything. But I just have to point out that if a movie is based on actual events and yunno people, you can't critique the same way you would a fictional story. I'm saying that because you mentioned that 3 of the guys normally would be the extremists and the other one would be the "nice" guy. That's not how to critique a "based on a true story" film. You have to base it on the real events, not fiction or tropes. Are they portraying the real people? Were three out of the four really that way? This event may not seem plausible but did it happen? Yunno stuff like that.
Tbh, i slept off watching the movie. For such a film that had the story more or less, development was lazy and indeed no connection with the characters. Nothing!!!
I know what you mean. I woke up at 4am on Saturday morning to watch it and eventually I started getting pissed that I cut short my precious sleep to watch the movie. 😩
You cannot outact bad writing and If i might add, even excellent writing cannot salvage bad directing. So true. Frankly, I don't think it's as terrible as many people make it seem but I strongly feel there could have been more to this story. Maybe the actors should have been made to meet the real hijackers to get a feel rather than just read about them in order to deliver as expected. Las las, e no easy... Make we no dey talk like say we don do 2X of wetin these people don do because even a 'bad movie' is not easy to make. Kudos to play network, let's also remember that they've not made that many films. I believe it'll only get better. As a filmmaker/aspiring one, if there's any movie you feel was poorly done, I suggest you buy the rights to it if the owners are willing to sell and tell the story better. Also, Tito, I agree with you on the fact that the happenings in Nigeria which led to the revolt would have been expounded upon a bit more, but the pack of 'poisoned food' was labeled in Chinese, hence making it easy for the air hostesses to make sure it got to the soldiers' target. Check it again.
Well it seems you don't understand the movie at all, go do your research, they were all teenagers, they weren't fully smart, and about the food, they usually gives them to the hostress, they must have specified what food should be given to Lee Zhang, and lot more, the movie is real life, not fiction, y'all shouldn't view it like it's writers imagination
I like the segment of the video where you read the tweets from X on the film.
Please keep adding them to your reviews.
Yes I agree! Provided a nice touch to the review
I was more concerned about how the passengers were sleeping without fear almost all through in this movie
😄 Well after the 1st day of the hostage situation I guess they just got tired and weren’t as terrified anymore. Wetin man go do na. 🤷🏽♂️
@@titoabumere they were too relaxed abeg
same thing I mentioned to my husband while we were watching...
How exactly can someone sleep in peace in that situation
I thought I was the only one oooooo
I was so surprised, even the hostage takers slept... the movie was so confusing.
The colorism in this film. How would the character of Marie, who was half Senegalese and half Nigerian come out looking like a biracial woman? Because she supposed to be feminine, she couldn’t be dark like she would have been in real life?
Ope oh! It’s a good thing I didn’t waste my time watching Hijack’93. Thank you for reviewing this movie.
😄 You’re welcome. 👊🏽
This movie was deeply underwhelming! It failed to provoke any form of emotion whatsoever, everything you said man, it gave lazy acting , directing everything , The story had potential I wish they did more with it, even if it didn’t happen that way, a lil fiction here and there would have been nice , also nice touch with the twitter review, we want more of that lol
Wow I’m guess I’m in the minority who thought this was an excellent movie. I loved it. 9/10
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂OMG, thank you for saving me 1.5hr. Saw a comment about it on Instagram the other day on Nigeria movie review... I am not surprised.....
😂 You’re most welcome. 👊🏽
Thanks so much for reviewing this film.
I had headache watching this movie it made me feel like something was wrong with me. Very Very poor movie why putting it on Netflix self film wey AIT CHANNEL
Going to watch it now.
Which one? The movie or my review? Lol.
I totally agree. It's the worst Nigerian movie of 2024!!! The most ridiculous scene was when the woman gave birth on the plane and started gisting with the hijacker right after-like labour is a piece of cake. None of the passengers even looked scared. Everything about the movie was just ridiculous: poor story, poor plot, very boring, no direction, no climax, irrelevant scenes. It's a -2/10 for me. Netflix should throw it out.
You didn't disappoint. Charles of Play didn't disappoint either to be honest.
Watching this review is me watching the movie. Cause I just can't deal. I am still yet to watch Glamour Girls and the studio is working on a sequel already 😂😂😂
The hijacked people were sleeping peacefully. No fear in their faces, no urgency from d supposed military onground. Everyone just doing as if they are reading story book.
😂😂😂 The one that finished me was the woman who delivered a baby on the plane and let one of the hijackers carry the baby. 😄 It’s like those hostages were in a different universe. 😆
@titoabumere so disappointed . No emotions throughout, the white guy and albino sef dey smile. Just playing on our intelligence
Imagine missing a major detail like the name of an actor in the film.. like forget it the movie can't be good.
New subscriber..I love love love your channel. I've been saying it that our stories and dialogue are whack. They lack imagination and authenticity. It's not even the acting that's bad sometimes the acting can be really good, it's the story that's bad most times.
Love your review! I agree with most of everything you said. 😃
I think we have to remember this was 1993 and these guys were regular young guys 16-18 year old all with issues at home. A strong figure “the guy” possibly brainwashed them. Maybe the producers didn’t do a good job depicting that.
The “lie about a soldier “ on board was to figure who was helping the hijackers ( hostess told one thing to hostess A and another to hostess B) so that helped figure who the mole was.
With the poison they could have marked the food to give the guy ( his father was prominent ) so they had to save him at all cost. I read in real life he was supposed to be the son of a Chinese V.P something like that.
Thanks a bunch. And thanks for the explanations. 🍻
@@titoabumere I read this in your voice 😃
First, was the doctor using a stethoscope to tell us the guy has high fever. Second, the son democrat was wearing an Apple Watch lol. I made the mistake to watch it before your review , and I’m highly disappointed. I’ll take half of the jollof they don’t deserve it. 🤣
😂😂😂 Please have mercy. Let them keep their half jollof. Don’t let them go hungry. Lol. I didn’t see the Apple watch o. 😱 I must’ve missed that.
the movie needs to give Tito jollof at this point...
@@zeldaewah4120 right 🤣🤣👏🏾
Please review. The betrayed
No dialogues for the beautiful actresses that played the "plane mistress" i watched it because of them
You get! I often enjoy watching Jemima, Nancy & Ego in their movies but in this film they barely got any screen time or good lines.
Thanks Tito, I came here yesterday to see your review on the movie after I watched it to confirm if there was something wrong with me but it yout review wasn't live yet. Alas, its true that the movie is a complete waste of time. What was that about showing Sharon at the end mingling with the terrorists while Jemimah was accused wrongly. Kai dem no try at all
Could you please review lakatabu by odunlade adekola. I want to know if you think it's as bad as people say it is. Thank you
Why does Tito insist on calling the hijackers the movie’s “antagonists” when they are clearly the protagonists, and complain that they were not portrayed as fearsome enough when clearly the movie wants you to sympathize with them? That’s so strange to me… like, are you u familiar with the concept of antiheroes?
The French is back!
Yes!
🇫🇷😉🇫🇷
Totally unrelated but tito return the french speaking during intro
I agree. Lol
The movie was rife with anachronisms and looked nothing like 1993… but I’m going to disagree with you on the skullcaps. We absolutely did wear those in 1993, as well as doorags. Naughty by Nature were extremely popular in Nigeria and lots of young men adopted Treach’s look with the doorags. Confra boys (and guys who wanted to look like Confra boys) wore them too.
By the way, Tito, they now call it X, not Twitter. 😅
More research and better script writing was needed. Too many climaxes in the movie that towards the end i just wanted the movie to end. The acting showcase the poor script writing and research. The storyline didn't make sense as a whole for me. I didn't understand some of the transitions it wasn't smooth.
My take is the military could have taken over that plane within the first fifteen minutes; those boys were clumsy and disorganised
Yeah, but the military didn’t know how inept and confused the hijackers were. We only knew bcos we were shown what was going on inside the plane. ✈️
Also, the military probably didn’t know how many hijackers there were and they didn’t want to risk civilian casualties. But how they stormed the plane in the end sef didn’t seem very mindful of the civilians on board.
spot on.
For Tito not to like anything about the movie, then e bad true true because I know you to find even at least a single thing to like in a not so good movie
😄 You get? Cos I feel in every movie there has to be at least 1 or 2 things that I can give it credit for. Omo, in this one I couldn’t find o. 🤕
The actors just seem not needed in the movie, sharon nanacy and ini dinma just seem not needed, cause they werent given time, its cool sha the story isnt about them 😂😂😂
Well, I haven't seen the movie, so I can't comment on anything. But I just have to point out that if a movie is based on actual events and yunno people, you can't critique the same way you would a fictional story. I'm saying that because you mentioned that 3 of the guys normally would be the extremists and the other one would be the "nice" guy. That's not how to critique a "based on a true story" film. You have to base it on the real events, not fiction or tropes. Are they portraying the real people? Were three out of the four really that way? This event may not seem plausible but did it happen? Yunno stuff like that.
Another film with more money than sense. Sigh
Won’t be watching thanks!
😂😂😂😂😂 Nigerian movies are garbage normally. Can't take them serious.
@@joshuaj.chinda9873 not all. This one was just terrible
@adedejiire6341 Many are terrible. Believe me when I have never watched one that makes sense.
@@joshuaj.chinda9873 lool. And they no wan improve.
Tbh, i slept off watching the movie. For such a film that had the story more or less, development was lazy and indeed no connection with the characters. Nothing!!!
I know what you mean. I woke up at 4am on Saturday morning to watch it and eventually I started getting pissed that I cut short my precious sleep to watch the movie. 😩
@@titoabumere lol ... Why you go wake up at such ungodly hour to watch Hollywood film 🥺
@@chizobaogu8843 I remember one I woke up early in the morning and watched a jean claude van damme movie. It was actually worth it😂
I am not interested in watching
I’m not surprised. I’m sure you’ve only heard not so good things about the film.
You cannot outact bad writing and If i might add, even excellent writing cannot salvage bad directing. So true.
Frankly, I don't think it's as terrible as many people make it seem but I strongly feel there could have been more to this story. Maybe the actors should have been made to meet the real hijackers to get a feel rather than just read about them in order to deliver as expected.
Las las, e no easy... Make we no dey talk like say we don do 2X of wetin these people don do because even a 'bad movie' is not easy to make. Kudos to play network, let's also remember that they've not made that many films. I believe it'll only get better.
As a filmmaker/aspiring one, if there's any movie you feel was poorly done, I suggest you buy the rights to it if the owners are willing to sell and tell the story better.
Also, Tito, I agree with you on the fact that the happenings in Nigeria which led to the revolt would have been expounded upon a bit more, but the pack of 'poisoned food' was labeled in Chinese, hence making it easy for the air hostesses to make sure it got to the soldiers' target. Check it again.
Is it just me cos i think Play studios should just stop making movies.
Well it seems you don't understand the movie at all, go do your research, they were all teenagers, they weren't fully smart, and about the food, they usually gives them to the hostress, they must have specified what food should be given to Lee Zhang, and lot more, the movie is real life, not fiction, y'all shouldn't view it like it's writers imagination
But the film was poor