This is the kind of example of what a TV production can bring to audiences, how can a TV stuff take "risks" in the screenplay....I have seen this feature back in the late eighties or early nineties and will never forget it. Especially of course the awesome ending, at least the alternate ending that was shown in Europe. That's the only example of this scheme that was ever made in hostage films; at least as far as I know. Usually, in hostage movies, the endings are always the same. But there is a little goof which I want to talk about. SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS. At the end, when the terrorists are show hanged, where is the fourth, where is the lady, because we only see trousers, and she wore a skirt. And how can one hang another one on a plane cabin? Are there any hooks on the ceiling? But that doesn't remove anything at all from this awesome piece of work. One more thing, no explanation is given about the motivations of those terrorists, who do not look like Arabs. Most, if not all, plane hijackings in those periods were pulled by Arabs. It should have been explained. IRA, right wing extremists? The man whom the terrorists asked for the release looked like an Arab....Hmmmm
Review of Hostage Flight
