n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Es una película que se mantiene muy alejada del espectador. No consigue engancharte nunca. No entiendes muy bien los motivos de nada, no sabes cómo se les pudo ir tanto de las manos y no entiendes como se confundieron tanto al hacer las cosas. Los actores están bien, pero la mayoría son demasiado herméticos.La iluminación que tendría que crear un clima muy especial, entre frio y tenso. Solo crea un ambiente seco. No llega a transmitir nada ni apoya la narración.La dirección para mi gusto está un poco perdida. El ritmo se le va de las manos. Te llega a aburrir en algún momento. Parece que le gusta hacer los planos de una manera, pero luego rueda otros planos de otra manera totalmente distinta. No hay una unión de nada. Algunos planos son terriblemente feos y mal hechos.He aprendido otro capítulo de la URSS pero más allá no va It is a film that stays very far from the viewer. It never gets hooked. You do not understand very well the reasons for anything, you do not know how they could get so out of hand and you do not understand how they got so confused when doing things.The actors are fine, but most are too hermetic.The lighting that would have to create a very special climate, between cold and tense. It only creates a dry environment. He does not transmit anything or support the narrative.The address for my taste is a little lost. The rhythm is getting out of hand. It gets boring at some point. It seems that he likes to do the plans in one way, but then he rolls other planes in a totally different way. There is not a union of anything. Some planes are terribly ugly and badly made.I have learned another chapter of the USSR but beyond it it is not going

It may be a true story and may be technical it is good, but my opinion is that there is so much filling in the movie at the beginning and then the main event is very short and i didn't really enjoy watching this movie.

This movie is based on a true event that occurred in 1983 in Georgia when it was part of the USSR. A group of young people, highly dissatisfied with life under the Soviet state, decided to hijack a passenger jet and force it to take them out to the West.First off, it is great to have a chance to see movies made it parts of the world with little cinema output. For this reason alone, Hostages is a worthwhile film, given its Georgian origins. The story itself is one not known to me at all but it is certainly an interesting set of events. It is a film which operates in shades of grey as opposed to black and white certainties. We do sympathise with the frustrations of the hijackers and their daily grind but it is difficult to condone their actions given that people were killed as a result of it; then again, the Soviet response to the incident was extremely heavy-handed, although they were trying to resolve the problem. The result is a more even-handed and thought-provoking film than might otherwise have been produced, although it would only be fair to say that it is definitely critical of the life that was imposed on people under the communist regime. The gloomy early 80's period detail is well done and the film is very well made. Perhaps the material could have been focused a little more sharply in places maybe but overall this is worth seeing for sure.

The film Hostages (Mdzevlebi) directed by the young Georgian director Rezo Gigineishvili was shown at the Berlinale in the Panorama section. It is based on the true events of a plane hijacking in 1983 by a group of youngsters belonging to the artistic elite of Georgia. The hijacking resulted in multiple casualties and all hijackers, except the woman, were executed. After the USSR dissolved, the participants of these events were sometimes romanticized and represented as heroic martyrs.The film leaves a strong impression and leaves room for thought. The closing sentence of the film – " In 1991 the freedom of movement was finally granted" – is something completely unnecessary; first of all this is common knowledge and secondly the lack of freedom of movement cannot be an excuse or explanation for the atrocities depicted in the film.The film does not offer answers and does not explain motivation of horrific actions of hijackers, however it poses some profound questions, which is also important, especially as this event is still shrouded in mystery. The picture filmed in minimalistic style and is made in an almost documentary fashion, it is tense and grips the viewer all the way through.Read more at: http://indie-cinema.com/2017/02/hostages/