
Hijacked
2025

Representation Score
Limited
2024
PG-13Director
Jaume Collet-Serra
Runtime
120 minutes
Average Rating
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Carry-On functions as a streamlined, genre-focused thriller that prioritizes tension and plot mechanics over complex identity politics. The narrative structure adheres to established action-thriller boundaries, focusing on a centralized conflict between security protocols and a singular antagonist. While the airport setting offers potential for incidental diversity, the film seems to favor traditional storytelling conventions. It lacks the systemic critique necessary to disrupt standard genre clichés.
Category Breakdown
The film follows a conventional thriller structure focused on high-stakes security conflict. There is no evidence of non-binary gender identities or narratives challenging the assumption that everyone is straight.
The narrative likely uses traditional gender roles of protectors or adversaries. Without evidence of overturning these hierarchies, the film maintains a standard genre framework.
An international airport setting provides a natural landscape for a globalized cast. However, it is unclear if the film provides meaningful roles to characters of color.
The premise aligns with traditional Western institutional frameworks regarding law enforcement and state security. The story appears to reinforce rather than critique these established authorities.
There is no indication that neurodivergence or physical disabilities are integrated into the character architecture. These elements do not appear to serve as meaningful narrative drivers.
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Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
An airport security officer races to outsmart a mysterious traveler forcing him to let a dangerous item slip onto a Christmas Eve flight.

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