Stars: Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver, Edward Asner, Ray Baker, Richard Dysart, Jay Patterson, Mark Rolston, Betty White, Wayne Duvall, Ricky Harris, Richard Dysart, Dann Florek, Lisa Fuhrman, Michael A. Goorjian, Michael Monks, Peter Murnik

Director: Mikael Salomon

Summary: A flooded town is the centre of a planned heist of an armoured car carrying $3000,000. When the car breaks down in the flooding the drivers and the hopeful robbers are all caught by surprise.

Rising flood waters imperil the residents of a Midwestern town, but to a gang of thieves, the disaster is an opportunity--to waltz off with the contents of a bank vault abandoned by the evacuated townspeople. Something they didn't count on is armed truck driver Christian Slater, called upon to carry the money out of the vault and to higher ground. Thus begins a battle of wills set against the raging flood tides, complicated further by a corrupt sheriff's designs on the loot. Nifty flood effects and high-octane action sequences keep things moving at a rapid pace.

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It may not exactly be a disaster movie, but this terminally silly thriller is certainly disastrous, and would be pointless without the novelty of its setting in a flooding Midwestern town during a torrential rainfall. Physically impressive but idiotic in every other respect, the movie pits an armoured truck courier (Christian Slater) against a smart leader of thieves (Morgan Freeman) and a corruptible town sheriff (Randy Quaid) who are vying for possession of $3 million in cash. A waterlogged game of cat and mouse, the plot is so contrived that even the most impressive action sequences--such as a jet-ski chase through flooded high-school corridors--are robbed of their already tenuous credibility. Before long you'll be yawning as incompetent accomplices are systematically dispatched by their own stupidity, in the kind of movie where the use of power boats inevitably leads to at least one death by outboard motor. What's impressive here is the physical production itself--the effect of flooding was created by building a huge replica of downtown Huntington, Indiana, in a huge, watertight aircraft hangar in Palmdale, California! --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Trailer
Subtitles:	Dutch, Spanish
Year:	1998
Release Date:	December 24, 2001
Runtime:	93 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	902 143 9
Keywords:	Action, Rain, General, Wide, Screen, Hard, Adventure
Genre:	Action/Adventure