| Hard Rain Review |
| by Jon Popick |
| Hard Rain is the kind of movie where the bad guys chase the good guy
(Slater) around, but can’t kill him because he has some special secret.
It is also the kind of movie where the good guy finds some hot babe
(Driver) while he’s running about. It is...more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by Ram Samudrala |
| /Hard Rain/ is literally a torrent of action sequences strung together
to make for an energetic and exhilarating film. I started watching the
film with trepidation: how can anything exciting happen when it's just
raining a lot (I lived through such rains...more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by Serdar Yegulalp |
| "Hard Rain" has some of the most exhausting-looking stuntwork and mechanical
effects I've ever seen in a movie. They are used to prop up one of the
thinnest and most inept stories I've ever seen in a movie. Times like this, I
fear the "Making Of"...more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by Berge Garabedian |
| PLOT:
Four criminals hold up an armored truck during its exit of a
"soon-to-be-flooded" town. Unfortunately for them, one of the drivers
escapes into the town with the dough, and turns the empty town's water
filled streets, into a cat-and-mouse...more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by Christian Pyle |
| In "Hard Rain," an armored car carrying $3M is caught in a flood. A gang of
thieves led by Morgan Freeman attack, and the surviving guard (Christian
Slater) must run off and hide the money. The gang pursues Slater through the
flooded streets of a...more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by James Brundage |
| Okay, here's what I think happened with Hard Rain. The producers of Speed
(Ian Brice, Mark Gordon, Allison Lyon Segon) went out after their big hit
and partied a little too much, poured one too many drinks down the hatchet.
They figured, hey, I've got...more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by Jeff Walters |
| Sigh. Here stands a movie that could have been so much more. Don't get
me wrong - I still found Hard Rain fairly enjoyable, but there was so
much unfulfilled potential in this flick. The story is very intruiging
as it is an interesting mix of genres....more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by Luke Buckmaster |
| It was once said that in order to truly enjoy some of today s movies or novels,
you must suspend disbelief. However, there is a distinct separation between
opening your mind to ridiculous situations and believing a bunch of flat lies.
It came as no...more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by Tim Voon |
| HARD RAIN 1998
A film review by Timothy Voon
Copyright 1998 Timothy Voon
1 :-) for lot’s of water over the dam more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by Matt Williams |
| After stalling for nearly a year, Hard Rain finally makes it to the box
office. Previously titled The Flood, the filmmakers quickly renamed it
after the deluge of disaster pics, so as not to have it drown in the
public's eye. In a way, it's fitting,...more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by Michael Dequina |
| In an apparent response to the lukewarm reaction to Hollywood's last two
disaster epics, the dueling volcano movies Dante's Peak and Volcano, the
makers of Hard Rain (formerly known as The Flood) have tweaked the usual
disaster formula a bit, melding...more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by Steve Rhodes |
| "So, are we all going to die?" the Sheriff (Randy Quaid) asks in
the story's opening line as he evacuates his flooded town. The answer
is pretty much yes, but not nearly soon enough. And to add insult to
injury, the supposedly dead, regretfully,...more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by Nathaniel R. Atcheson |
| Here it is, the next chapter in the ever-so-popular DISASTER! genre.
Hard Rain, however, goes the extra mile: it sets up a big burglary in
the middle of the disaster, and then the characters have to deal with
both situations simultaneously. There is...more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by David Sunga |
| Rating: 3.0 stars (out of 4.0)
********************************
Key to rating system:
2.0 stars - Debatable
2.5 stars - Some people may like it
3.0 stars - I liked it
3.5 stars - I am biased in favor of the movie
4.0 stars - I felt the movie's impact...more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by David Nusair |
| First it was called "The Flood" and now it's called "Hard Rain". I don't
see much of a difference, but apparently some executives at Paramount
figured that with a title like "The Flood", it might become another
casuality of the "disaster movie flops", a...more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by Steve Kong |
| Ding! Here's movie number two for my top 10 worst films of 1998 list! I'm
building quite a collection: first fire (Firestorm), now water. I wonder
what other natural wonders January will bring me. more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by James Berardinelli |
| United States, 1998
U.S. Release Date: 1/16/98 (wide)
Running Length: 1:37
MPAA Classification: R (Violence, profanity)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by Eric Lurio |
| It’s raining. The river, it doesn’t matter which, is rising Hank(Wayne Duvall)
is manning the dam and trying desperately to keep it from blowing. The Sheriff
(Randy Quaid), who’s been defeated for reelection, is evacuating the town. He
is not a happy...more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten |
| Reviewed by Harvey Karten, Ph.D.
Paramount Pictures/Mutual Film Company
Director: Mikael Salomon
Writer: Graham Yost
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid,
Minnie Driver, Edward Asner, Richard Dysart, Betty White more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by Edward Johnson-ott |
| It would be easy to dismiss the entertaining, but decidedly lightweight
action film "Hard Rain" as mere fluff, were it not for the memories of
last summer's dreadful "Speed 2: Cruise Control." That leaden monstrosity
served as a primer on how to screw...more |
| Hard Rain Review |
| by Ben Hoffman |
| HARD 8 is so perfect in every respect, it is hard to know where to
begin. Let us start with the writing by Paul Thomas Anderson.. There
is not a word in the entire film's dialog that should be changed.
Every word has meaning; every word carries with...more |
