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It's fast-moving, it's got fine special effects, the hero and heroine are pure and quick-thinking, the bad people die badly, and the script draws its fair share of laughs.
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60A spectacular natural disaster spiraling out of control, a crime gone wrong and a poor jerk caught in the middle: Yes, it's a standard action-picture recipe. But what a difference a cast makes.
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60A rollicking cat-and-mouse thriller in bad weather. And no dog.
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50Salomon directed the silly but diverting action yarn, which benefits from the talents of Freeman, Quaid, Driver, and White.
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50A stupid movie -- but a deliriously stupid movie, which gives it a certain grandeur.
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50The characters don't stay still long enough for the audience to worry about them. The high-priced actors (Freeman is especially wasted) are so much flotsam in the big water-tank action scenes.
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50A well-cast disaster movie more notable for special effects and stunts than for credible drama.
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50A waterlogged would-be thriller deep-sixed by its misguided notion of high concept. [12 January 1998, p. 63]
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42The film suggests Titanic in a giant wading pool.
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40A better disaster movie than it is a thriller.
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38It's not just about a disaster, it is a disaster.
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30A nearly affectless Christian Slater, who carries a co-producing credit and seems to have lost his charisma along with his sneer, plays Tom, an armored-car guard who plays hide-and-seek with a gang of thieves, all of whom, outside of ringleader Jim (Morgan Freeman), are instantly forgettable.
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30This documentary-like realism, alas, only underlines the preposterousness of its plot with its torrent of contrived, credibility-defying cliffhangers.
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30The movie's chief crime against the planet, other than the sheer wastage of time, is the trivializing of the great Freeman. This actor has such dignity and depth and humanity, he almost makes the film watchable.
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25One of those movies that never convince you its stories are really happening.
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25Washed away by drippy plot. [16 January 1998, p. 4D]
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20Tired and formulaic.