NINE MILES DOWN is a typical slice of low budget schlock, suffering from laughable over-direction and a general aimless feel. It's a two-hander involving Adrian Paul as a worker investigating an abandoned drilling station in the Sahara. He hooks up with an attractive young blonde woman and the two investigate mysteries surrounding the place. It's all very artificial and limited, with a lengthy, drawn-out plot that just seems to keep going on and on - the kind of plot that's been relentlessly padded out just to fill the running time. The end result is a good cure for insomnia.