"For seven effortlessly bingeable hours supposedly showing the adventure in real time, our man on the pressurised inside deduced complex situations from misplaced washbags, sent coded messages via fruit cartons and dying men's phones, saved lives, averted disasters, and got Kingdom Flight 29 landed safely by Holly Aird so that he could return to his family, even though viewers agreed the scenes with them in between the plane bits were very boring indeed."
"And he wasn't even a policeman like Bruce Willis in Die Hard or a counter-terrorist federal agent like Kiefer Sutherland in 24! Or a pilot, which might also have been useful. He was Sam Nelson, a business negotiator. He had extreme business negotiating skills and he beat the bad guys. Who turned out not to be terrorists but a crime syndicate that wanted to short shares in the airline. Which was a bit weird, but never mind."
"Now Sam Idris Elba Nelson is back. And this time, he's on a train. An underground train, part of the Berlin metro, and let me tell you shenanigans ensue. Sam is on his way to a meeting with a German government person. That gives us INITIAL TENSION, especially as we know Germans are efficient and don't like to be kept waiting."
In summer 2023 Idris Elba starred as Sam Nelson, a business negotiator who foiled a hijacking over seven real-time hours. He deduced complex situations from misplaced washbags, sent coded messages via fruit cartons and dying men's phones, saved lives, averted disasters, and landed Kingdom Flight 29 so he could return to his family. The hijackers were a crime syndicate attempting to short the airline's shares. Elba's Sam was portrayed as a mighty, implacable force. Sam returns in a new story set on the Berlin underground, where a red rucksack causes commotion ahead of a tense meeting with a German official.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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