On uk tv

Thursday 13 September

3:30pm - 5:30pm

Five

A computer expert fired by the designer of a prototype automated jet liner takes control of the plane from his bedsit in this daft race-against-time thriller. It reads like a cross between Speed and an episode of Thunderbirds, but it lacks the deadly earnestness that used to carry Gerry Anderson's adventures. Any remaining credibility is shredded by the fact that the disgraced war hero who is the only man who can avert a disaster irresistibly recalls Robert Hays's character in Airplane!. Craig Sheffer gives it a go, but he succeeds only in creating a walking, talking caricature action man.