Ground Control

Ground Control follows the reluctant return to work of Jack Harris (Kiefer Sutherland), a retired air traffic controller who is still haunted by his role in a probably unavoidable plane crash that has left him guilt-ridden and professionally gun shy. When a Phoenix airport fighting budget cutbacks ...more

For a straight-to-video release with little financial means, Ground Control is a surprisingly tense and reasonably realistic attempt to portray the profession that gives its practitioners an athlete's rush while also turning them prematurely gray. That a rusty, shell-shocked retiree has no place among them is abundantly clear, but Keifer Sutherland rises to the challenge -- because he's the hero, naturally. Ground Control contains way too many sweaty flashbacks by anyone's standards, but the ...more