FREEFALL: FLIGHT 174 is a TV movie thriller much in the vein of the AIRPORT movies of the 1970s. In it, a Canadian airliner runs out of fuel mid-journey and has to find somewhere to land before it crashes. Sadly, this is a cheap and melodramatic affair, not convincing for a moment. William Devane heads the cast and is fine as the captain, but the story is slow and unconvincing, bogged down in the boring lives of the passengers and crew. There's never a real sense of danger or the kind of suspense required to make a thriller like this work.
