Hard Rain . Tucson Weekly . 01-26-98

Hard Rain

DIRECTED BY: Mikael Salomon

REVIEWED: 01-26-98

If you flushed your toilet non-stop for the rest of your life, you wouldn't come anywhere near the quantity of water wasted in Hard Rain. An action thriller set during an ever-rising flood in a small Midwestern town, the flick is overflowing with freaky situations like high-school halls that become jet ski highways, jail cells turned into drowning traps, and rooftops that double as boat ramps. At first, there's an almost surreal quality to the film, like we're inside some sort of symbolic dream world. But the blandly calculating script soon turns everything into soggy cereal. Other than Morgan Freeman, who plays a refreshingly non-sadistic villain, most of the characters just tread the usual action-cliché waters, and the movie forfeits any claim it had to inventiveness when it climaxes with a last-minute bad-guy revival in slow motion. Ugh, get me a towel. With Christian Slater, Minnie Driver, Randy Quaid, and, in sadly humiliating roles, Ed Asner and Betty White.

--Woodruff

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