Disaster movies and action movies can be big business at the box office, so it only made sense someone would combine the two ideas into one high-concept package. That someone was screenwriter Graham Yost who, back in the 90s, was riding the gravy train of his successes with Speed and Broken Arrow. So taking his script, casting then popular Christina Slater, who starred in Broken Arrow, and bringing in Morgan Freeman fresh off the hit Se7en seemed like a slam dunk.

For some inexplicable reason, a flick I watched in 1998 in the land Down Under popped into my head the other day, and just wouldn't go away. Damn you, Christian Slater . Damn you, Morgan Freeman . And damn you, Hard Rain . So is the movie any good? Stick with me. An armoured truck guard finds himself battling rising flood waters, a gang of thieves and a corrupt sheriff when an armed robbery goes bad.