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Mayday
MOVIE: CBS, Sunday 10/2 at 9:00p (120 minutes)


5.5

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Starring Aidan Quinn, Kelly Hu, Charles S. Dutton, Dean Cain, Michael Murphy, and Gail O'Grady

Based on the bestselling novel, this made-for-tv drama sees an amateur pilot and stewardess forced to land a damaged jumbo jet when the rest of the crew and passengers are incapacitated by an accidental military attack.

GENRE(S):	Action / Adventure, Drama
FIRST AIR DATE:	October 2, 2005

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Entertainment Weekly Alynda Wheat

The real shocker is the credibility holes bigger than the ones air-conditioning this bird. [30 Sep 2005, p.89]

The New York Times Anita Gates

"Mayday" is a run-of-the-mill television movie, but it does make its point: a lot of people in positions of authority these days are very bad guys.

New York Post Adam Buckman

Like this movie, most of the passengers in "Mayday" are dead on arrival.

Newsday Diane Werts

Maybe the problem with CBS' new Sunday popcorn movie "Mayday" isn't that it could be better. It actually could be worse. Then this would be deliriously mockable trash instead of an occasionally gripping but mostly frustratingly loony piece of hooey.

Variety Brian Lowry

Perhaps the intrigue worked better on paper, but squeezed into 88 minutes or so, it's almost comical how everyone keeps conspiring to bring the damn plane down after blasting a hole in it the size of a Hummer.

Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond

The visual effects from coordinator Laird McMurray and his team in the wake of the missile strike are solid enough, though it's never explained why some people get sucked out of the hole and others don't and why, after the plane levels off, the sucking pretty much stops even as the movie itself continues to suck.

The average user rating for this tv show is 5.5 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Danel S. gave it a2:
Blech! I remember watching this one sunday afternoon with my dad, and it sucked. completely unbelievable at every stage, stupid premise, ridiculous ending.

Stephen C gave it a2:
What a ridiculous piece of crap. A heat seeking missile that hits a fuselage? It would hit the engine (heat). Also at 65,000 feet - it would have been all over.

Linda C gave it an8:
I thought it was a great movie. I didn't want to be scared out of my wits, I just wanted a good moive and that is what it was.

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Mayday MOVIE: CBS, Sunday 10/2 at 9:00p (120 minutes)

Mayday
MOVIE: CBS, Sunday 10/2 at 9:00p (120 minutes)