If it wasn't for Travolta's screen presence, this would have been one of those TV movies of the week that pop up on Channel 5 in the week when nothing else is on.
The film is set up with so many clichés, you'd think the makers of the film were doing it for a laugh.
We start in the past, and it's Travolta's birthday, and because he's such a hard working linesman, he cuts short his celebrations and helps to fix a line. But in doing so, kills his best friend.
And if that wasn't the icing on the cake, his best friends wife gets killed on the way to the hospital. You just couldn't script it could you?
Anyway, he takes their daughter in who grows up to be Kate Bosworth pretending to be an eighteen year old and they all live happily ever after.
Of course they don't. Devon Sawa has remembered that he had a career after Final Destination and turns up as a ne'er do well who was with Bosworth but wants to win her back. So he becomes a linesman.
And obviously Travolta hates him more than any illness on the planet.
You just couldn't script it could you?.
Well it's not boring, but it's such an old fashioned film, this could have been made 60 years ago and starred James Stewart and James Dean, and they wouldn't have had to have changed anything.
But the thing that keeps you going until the end is trying to guess, just who is going to die at the hands of the main villain of the film, loose electricity?
And there are so many other sub-plots to get your teeth into. Whether it be Julie Benz as a neighbour with a troubled husband, Sharon Stone as Sawa's troubled mother, or a guy troubling Bosworth, to Gil Bellows troubling name, there is so much to choose from.
It's a quick pay day for everyone, and I know it's supposed to be a tribute to all the linesman out there, but it all ends up like a rubbish version of Backdraft featuring a character who makes a stupid decision near the end.
But it does have at least two theme songs.
If it was a cross over with Final Destination though, Sawa could have warned everybody, and we could have had a linesman franchise.
The film is set up with so many clichés, you'd think the makers of the film were doing it for a laugh.
We start in the past, and it's Travolta's birthday, and because he's such a hard working linesman, he cuts short his celebrations and helps to fix a line. But in doing so, kills his best friend.
And if that wasn't the icing on the cake, his best friends wife gets killed on the way to the hospital. You just couldn't script it could you?
Anyway, he takes their daughter in who grows up to be Kate Bosworth pretending to be an eighteen year old and they all live happily ever after.
Of course they don't. Devon Sawa has remembered that he had a career after Final Destination and turns up as a ne'er do well who was with Bosworth but wants to win her back. So he becomes a linesman.
And obviously Travolta hates him more than any illness on the planet.
You just couldn't script it could you?.
Well it's not boring, but it's such an old fashioned film, this could have been made 60 years ago and starred James Stewart and James Dean, and they wouldn't have had to have changed anything.
But the thing that keeps you going until the end is trying to guess, just who is going to die at the hands of the main villain of the film, loose electricity?
And there are so many other sub-plots to get your teeth into. Whether it be Julie Benz as a neighbour with a troubled husband, Sharon Stone as Sawa's troubled mother, or a guy troubling Bosworth, to Gil Bellows troubling name, there is so much to choose from.
It's a quick pay day for everyone, and I know it's supposed to be a tribute to all the linesman out there, but it all ends up like a rubbish version of Backdraft featuring a character who makes a stupid decision near the end.
But it does have at least two theme songs.
If it was a cross over with Final Destination though, Sawa could have warned everybody, and we could have had a linesman franchise.