i still haven not get to see all of this while it run on cable right now and and i seem to keep come in on the middle of it . my main reason for be interested in it be that i be a bill paxton fan while he a pretty good actor and and have turn in consistently good work over the course of his career . the other thing be that and while never really a fan of the old series and i kinda like thunderbird for the ship and effect work . derek meddings be quite possibly the best in the business during the sixty and seventy and and his design for the international rescue craft be wonderful . the current team have do a fine job of translate his work to the big screen . but . this be one lame story . the kid be ask to drive it and and while they do an okay job and it hard to suspend your disbelief and especially when you have brain eight year old son fly t2 and an enormous multi ton transport with all the aerodynamics of a buick . everywhere you look and you see a ford logo . product placement be way over the top here and and it annoy . ben kingsley do an good job a the hood and but he can only do so much with a one dimensional role . if you can accept the film on it very slim merit and thunderbird be a fun and enjoyable ride . just do not look too closely at the machinery that drive it . addendum represent i finally get to see all of this and and it bad than i thought . the acting be fairly uniformly poor and and while the effect be fairly good and the story on multiple viewing have get cheesier . the overdone product placement for ford be annoy and and the kid a central character grate on my remain nerve . a with the avenger and if you ignore the source material and it bearable . but not very . watch the original show and and you will see what i mean . and a word of advice to jon frakes . take a refresher course at the director guild . you can do good than this and old friend . another footnote . i saw this again . last night . on telemundo . dub in spanish and with cheesy comedy sound effect . and yes and i come in roughly in the middle and with ben and ron and sophia in their fight scene on tracy island . i do not think it be possible for an already lame movie to be bad and but it be . it be embarrassingly bad . if this have be do straight and no kid to the rescue and no tongue in cheek joke and it might have work . a it be and it just another beloved childhood joy that be ruin .