Just enough hope sprinkled throughout to keep this from being Not Good for My Rage. As angry as it'll make you, it'll also make you proud to see young activists hard at work, getting results.
3.5/4
[Viewed for Dave's Couch Film Festival 2025]
A grind. A slog. A drag. The most aggressively unfunny thing I've watched in years. Like it was trying to win a contest.
1/4
[Viewed for Dave'sCouchFilmFestival 2025]
If The Saint is a Second Tier Late 90s Action Movie That Really Hoped It Would Be First Tier, then Hard Rain is Fourth Tier with the same lofty dream. It's too bad this bombed - it deserves to be Third Tier at least.
The script is full of groaners, the characters are paper thin, the plot is ridiculous, and yet it works on me because, look, it's good cheese. Plenty of impressive action, a wow-factor production design (you see…
It never lives up to the magic, the electricity, the perfection of the opening scene, but hell, what could?
It comes darn close at times. The more kinetic the movie gets, the better; there's a vibrancy here that can't be bottled, and whenever De Palma lets loose, watch out, this thing is a firecracker. The cast is game, the music is on fire, but it's the visuals - those gorgeous, twisted visuals - that make everything sing.
3.5/4
[Viewed for #Oscar1974]
