This plot has been used before

Rating: 4/10 (1 June 2004)

May be a spoiler, but it's a stretch!
As I watched this mediocre movie, I kept thinking that I had seen it many times before. I had. The exact story line has been used in, for example, Towering Inferno, Poseidon Advanture, Airport and many more. The story line is 1) something bad happens, 2) some people need to get from point A to point B, 3) bad incidents keep happening to annoy them, and 4) they finally get there (the potential spoiler). Forget the junk science...no, DON'T forget that the story was "suggested by" a book by Art Bell and Whitney Strieber, those two alien abduction/government conspiracy/UFO/etc zealots.
On a completely unrelated topic, the CG (digital) effects were great.