Rain is the newest film to emerge in Hollywood's rediscovered infatuation with the disaster genre.
Christian Slater, who after Broken Arrow seems intent on becoming an action movie star, sloshes through the rising flood waters while Morgan Freeman and his band of idiots pursue on Jet Skis. Director Mikael Salomon and cinematographer Peter Menzies, Jr. provide some interesting visuals, such as a shoot out in a half-submerged cemetery, where Slater and Freeman dodge behind tombstones and monuments as bullets whiz past their heads. But the entire movie feels pre-manufactured. In Hard Rain , the concept itself overpowers the human characters, and all we are left with is a ludicrous series of climaxes. This is how Hollywood prefers to make movies nowadays.