Hard Rain Details

Didn’t float my boat

If you are looking for a movie that has some action and is moderately entertaining without requiring much cerebral activity, this is right up your street. For the rest of us watch Identity.

'Hard Rain' does have an excellent cast and some impressive set designs and effects. But it is so horribly written and cliché ridden it's distressing to see such a cast and budget wasted! The plot is very weak and the twists and turns are no more than a slight veering that you can spot a mile off. One of the final scenes where the state police turn up seconds after all the action pretty much sums it up. Definitely missed the boat, this one.

I don't get it. If this movie didn't have Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater in it, it would have looked like a very bad TV movie. The dialogue was appalling (almost as if it was actually taken word for word from a novel with no attempt to screen write it. I wouldn't know if this were true or not, just what it 'seemed' like.) There's obviously a lot of very hard work going on in this film, which is a big shame because it's all to no avail. Only reason I gave as many as two stars is because Slater and Freeman are not bad 'all' the way through.