Director: Oxide Pang Shun
Ten thousand meters above open water, a routine international flight turns into a hostage standoff in High Forces, a 2024 action-crime feature directed by Oxide Pang Shun.
What is High Forces about?
The story follows Gao Haojun, a security specialist who finds himself trapped mid-flight when a five-star luxury airliner making its maiden international run is seized by an organized crew of hijackers led by an operative called Mike. Complicating matters, Haojun's own daughter Xiaojun is among the roughly eight hundred passengers held captive, while her mother Fu Yuan faces separate danger on the ground. As demands escalate and the cabin grows tense, Haojun has to draw on his security training to protect his family and the people around him without triggering a broader disaster at altitude.
Cast & crew
Andy Lau Tak-Wah anchors the cast as Gao Haojun, joined by Zhang Zifeng, Qu Chuxiao, Liu Tao, Guo Xiaodong, Jiang Mengjie and Jiang Chao, who fill out the passengers, crew and hijacking crew aboard the aircraft.
Context & significance
High Forces arrives from mainland China as a large-scale genre picture built around a single-location premise, using the confines of an airliner cabin to keep tension high across its 115-minute runtime. Director Oxide Pang Shun, known for genre thrillers, leans on close-quarters staging and a ticking-clock structure to keep the hijacking plot moving from takeoff to resolution. The film sits within a wave of recent Chinese action-crime productions that favor confined, high-stakes settings — airports, subways, aircraft — over sprawling locations, letting the cast carry long stretches of the runtime through negotiation, physical confrontation and family stakes rather than large-scale spectacle alone.
Where & how to watch
High Forces streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing, and reading this page never requires an account — only playback does. Create a free K-Time login to watch, browse the rest of the Persian-language catalog, and pick up where you left off across devices.