SummaryAn American news crew is taken hostage aboard a chartered jet off the coast of Seychelles by a gang of Somali pirates. The leader of the pirates is driven by one goal - to be interviewed by a prominent member of the crew, legendary journalist Frank Saltzman. For the welfare of his colleagues Saltzman agrees to the demand before realizing they ar... Read More
Directed By:Simon Brand
Written By:Jim Wolfe Jr., Dan Bence
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Oct 16, 2014
50
The film is stronger with its moment-to-moment tension than with its cynical, shallow media satire.
Oct 18, 2014
42
There is a better, more contemplative movie to be made with this material, but with Brand and the filmmakers opting for cheap thrills, it leaves the movie, like the passengers on the plane, stuck on the tarmac.
Oct 16, 2014
40
Default’s search for ultra-realism ironically starts to make it look ultra-artificial.
Oct 16, 2014
30
Director Simon Brand devotes so much running time to fear-mongering and grotesque stereotypes that a last-ditch effort at moral ambiguity and a critique on muckraking barely register.
Oct 14, 2014
30
It sacrifices its voice to the premeditated non-style of a first-person pseudo-documentary, a form that often has the paradoxical effect of making everything it shows us seem more fake than usual.
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