KILLER FLOOD: THE DAY THE DAM BROKE (2003) **1/2 I had no idea that dams could be so interesting, but really, it doesn't seem like anything that even a minor volcanologist couldn't handle. Accept, you must, that it's trying to be somewhere between hokey and stupid. No! Not because it takes place in Rutland, I mean aesthetically! As the script, acting, and production values are harmoniously abhorrent, it helps that we already know the lead. Why, it's Joe Lando, from "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman." That being the case I keep wondering why he doesn't pull out his little Indian hatchet, and hack Bruce Boxleitner with it. Boxleitner would be a comic strip of a character, except that there's an entire subculture of self-centered, evil, morally reprehensible, greedy, stupid, vulgarly dressed, socially besmirched, whining, ass-kissing, invertebrate corporate assholes just like him in the real world. They have become, in fact, America's leading export (and that doesn't even count foreign policy architects)! One really sad part though, when the blue collar guy gets shot by an air duct. In any event Lando suffers from lacking the credibility inherent in having Jane Seymour as his girlfriend until Michele Greene attains character definition in spite of the script. She is that manner of mid-level beaurocratic mayoral designate willing to put her life on the line to save a dog, and to climb into a dumpster whilst wearing a business suit. They didn't miss to many stupid avenues in pulling things together, though Boxleitner should have been holding the file up when Lando drove by, and he should have grabbed it! For those of us who don't require that movies be good, this is a very good movie.
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