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Originally posted: May 22, 2008
Shark tale, hijack thriller dissappoint on Hallmark
Posted at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, May 22
Sunny Mabrey (left) and Dean Cain try to outwit Anthony Michael Hall (right) in "Final Approach."
Daryl Hannah, Dean Cain, John Schneider, Anthony Michael Hall, Lea Thompson—no, this isn’t the line-up for the next season of “Dancing with the Stars.” But after their latest disastrous projects air this weekend, these actors may beg for the positive exposure.
These stars are helping Hallmark Channel make Memorial Day Weekend an adventure-filled holiday.
At 7 p.m. Saturday, “Final Approach” flies into living rooms, and if any movie ever had a cast of one-time all-stars, it’s this. Cain channels Jack Bauer as former FBI agent Jack Bender, who ends up on a flight hijacked by Hall and his terrorist band. Thompson plays his wife, an FAA official who wears very short skirts. Even Tracey Gold from “Growing Pains” shows up as a TV journalist who is secretly filming the hijackers.
The movie has its good points—naming all the has-beens, for example—but is far too long and scattershot. If it had focused just on the action on the hijacked airplane, it might have worked.
Speaking of has-beens, in “Shark Swarm,” airing at 7 p.m. Sunday, Hannah and Schneider (left) play a happy couple whose idyllic, ocean-front town is threatened by a dishonest developer—and a mutant shark swarm! The “Jaws” rip-off part of this film actually has some teeth (heyo!), but it gets lost in the convoluted crime tale and eco-friendly preachiness.
Again, a tighter focus would do wonders to keep the relevant action moving.
As hard as “Swarm” tries to muffle the suspense, one genuinely “Jaws”-like moment will make you jump. And no, it’s not when Hannah’s swimming in the ocean and you get a peek at her Spanx.
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