‘Hijack’ review: Idris Elba is cool as a cucumber, at gunpoint, in the unfriendly skies
The airborne thriller “Hijack” on Apple TV+ unfolds in real(ish) time when a seven-hour flight from Dubai to London is hijacked. One of the passengers is played by Idris Elba, the coolest customer in these not-so-friendly skies, who uses his talents as a corporate negotiator to talk down this group of high-strung criminals and save everyone on board.
It’s a British series (cocreated by George Kay, whose credits include and director Jim Field Smith) but “Hijack” is indebted to a long line of similarly-themed Hollywood thrillers, from
