Pilou Asbæk and Søren Malling star as a cook taken hostage and the CEO that attempts to negotiate for his release, respectively.

Mikkel Hartmann, cook on board the Danish merchant ship Rozen, is anxious to return to his wife and child.

Insulted by the offer, Omar insists that the pirates will soon begin to kill people, and a gunshot is heard as the connection goes dead.

Thankful that the ordeal has finally come to an end, Hartmann retrieves his wedding ring, which he had hidden when the pirates boarded the vessel, and wears it publicly again.

Back in Denmark, Ludvigsen makes a difficult phonecall to deliver the bad news to the captain's wife.

Asbæk and Malling were cast before writing began; writer-director Lindholm had worked with them earlier and enjoyed their company.

When he read about commercial Danish ships hijacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean, he realized that he could use this situation for his film.

During shooting, Lindholm kept Malling, an experienced comedian, off-balance by refusing to allow him to fall back to comedy.

Porter is a professional hostage negotiator, originally hired as the film's technical adviser but then offered the part:[5] he had no lines written for him, as Lindholm wanted to make use of his real-life skills.

Also a first-time actor, he educated himself through watching behind-the-scenes documentaries on famous films, which he often referenced during shooting.

Lindholm at first worried that there might be too much English-language dialogue in the film for the Danish market, but, in the interests of realism, he kept it.

The site's consensus reads: "A tense, gripping thriller, A Hijacking avoids action movie cliches and instead creates a palpable sense of dread by mixing gritty realism with atmospheric beauty.

[8] Geoff Pevere of The Globe and Mail praised the film for its ability to avoid "conventional thrills" without compromising its suspense.

[9] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle called it a "methodical and tense" character study.