Hard Rain

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You could compare it with Rob Cohen's HURRICANE HEIST, not the story itself but the overall scheme and atmosphere. Heist disaster films are not so common after all. This one, despite being predictable, remains interesting, because you have several levels of characters armored truck drivers, hoodlums and rogue sheriff deputies. Morg Freeman is unusual in a gangster role, though not a brutal criminal either, rather sympathetic compared to the sheriff. Good photography and overall directing, good scenes, it's a shame that Mikael Solomon did not continue in the big screen movies business but instead TV series one.

If you like water, you can stand this movie. I guess the actors took a long vacation in a desert after this, everybody is and stays soaking wet. Otherwise it is a great suspense movie. The good and the bad guys switch sides several times, and nothing is really what it seems ... besides wet. Moral: if all the keys fail you, it's good to have a swiss army knife.

I' mean, real crap! This movie was airing on television yesterday's afternoon, and I tryed my chances on it. I didn't see it since the very beginning, but as the movie was reaching the end it what was already not good went water down taking the movie as a whole with it. Yes, Morgan Freeman is in it but don't rely on it to think that this would be a good one, because, my God it surely isn't. By far the worst part was when the reservoir cracked, dude how could he have the time to get there, free the girl and run away? And let's not even talk about the last shooting sequence, she acted like a dumb, playmate, but I mean DDUUMMBB, and those other two shooted the bad guy from several, several, several yards away............ Don't forget, this one is only good to wash the ground. Oh, the camera movements inside the school were very interesting, that's all! I can't believe that Graham Yost after writing a master piece called SPEED, wrote this peace of s***! Don't see it, 3/10

Christian Slater was terrible in this. He has some good movies but this one reminded me of Kuffs. Too many near death experiences, with a little too much humor. I am glad he was arrested for assault cause I would have beat his ass for suffering through this garbage. (Christian) Do another serious movie like Bed of Roses, stay away from weak comedy/Action movies). Thank you for your time in this matter. Mr. Hipp

I didn't see any trailers or read any reviews of this movie, just grabbed it off the video store shelf cause there was nothing else. If you like action movies, I don't see what's not to like: original settings, novel (!) action sequences, fine cast, and written like the story was the only thing that mattered. I liked not being able to predict scenes. I wish more action scripts were this entertaining.

I rented this movie because the story line seemed very good, and i think that it was worth the 4 something bucks i paid. The movie is definitely has suspense parts that make u go "come on run" or "go faster!". Problems i saw in the movie is that there is SO much problems for the main character. The beginning is very good, but towards the end, there's just way too many problems for him.it seems like never ending, and i had absolutely no idea if he was gonna come out of this alive or dead. But overall it was a good movie. All the characters are wet the entire time. This movie is Rated R. It's probably because of the language, but other than that, there's nothing really bad about it. Pretty good movie, and the actors played their characters well.

As a movie with water, lots and lots and water, it's actually not that bad. But as a typical action picture, it's got villains that aren't mean enough, and don't seem quite determined enough (to get what they want, that is) for this movie to be something truly exciting. It's nice to see Morgan Freeman playing a bad guy, but he smiles a couple times (and I'm not talking about evil smiles), which is kind of a cheat. Give the characters a little more personality, ratchet the suspense a little, speed up the action, and this could have been a top-notch movie. And aside from comic relief, the two elderly characters (one of them played by Betty White), are unnecessary. *** out of ****

Except for "The Contender", I haven't enjoyed any Christian Slater film, and this is no exception. Hard Rain might be quite the original film, since the premise is a cop flick during a flood. Unfortunately, the plot is silly and much of the acting is bad. I can't decide whether to love or hate "Morgan Freeman", who reprises his role as the "cool beyond cool" guy (works for either goodguy or badguy roles) from Nurse Betty, High Crimes, etc. Take it from me -- I am not an arty reviewer who thinks every action film needs to have deep characterization. I love it when stuff blows up and if the plot has some twists ("Twister", "The Fugitive"), I can have a good time and not look for deep thoughts that change my life. But I do enjoy a script that doesn't insult my intelligence. I was primed to enjoy this film but it didn't strike me. Who should see this film: -- nobody I'll have to give "Hard Rain" a 5 out of 10, for some nice visuals.

As action films go, "Hard Rain" is an exciting adventure packed with stunts and explosions as you would expect. The notable difference is that the whole film takes place in a totally flooded town which has been evacuated of practically all of its inhabitants by the sheriff. The film centres on Christian Slater who is ambushed by a band of looters as he is driving a truck filled with money. He decides not to give in so easily and it's from there that the action unfolds. Not at all believable but non-stop fun all the same.