Kurt Russell surfs a tsunami down Wilshire Boulevard, sharing the wave with burned-out surfer Peter Fonda. Arnold Schwarzenegger dives out of a plane, sans parachute, to catch up with an unopened chute far below. But the gravity-defying martial arts stunts had audiences howling in delight. A bad guy leaves Alcatraz on the business end of a missile. And much of San Francisco, including one of its picturesque cable cars, is destroyed in a chase scene involving a Ferrari and Humvee.
Property damage is extensive.
At this point in the movie, the distraction is welcome.