Fast Cars, Fast women, and even Faster chase scenes! This
all star cast with The Rock, Vin Diesel, and Paul Walker brought the house
down......wait, wrong movie. Hurricane Katrina, so many stories, so little
time. I'm convinced that most of the stories told about the depths
of HK ground zero are embellished, but they do make great movies. This
movie was actually really good. I cant imagine too many scenarios that
would be worse than this. The newly departed heart-throb Paul Walker in
one of his last films plays a new dad trapped in the hospital by the wakes of
Katrina. Why is her there you ask? Well it just so happens that his
newborn is on a ventilator that cant be moved in time for the evacuation.
Well this is the part where everything starts going terribly wrong.
First off the staff abandons the place, then the storm hits hard, then
the power goes out, then it gets worse. The back up battery that is
running the ventilation machine goes bad and by sheer luck Dad finds a manual
crank generator. Seems like things are going in the right direction for
Mr. Handsome! Well they are most definitely not! The battery will
only take a charge of 3 minutes at a time, so be prepared for a long night of
crankin! During these three minute intervals of life support, Dad has to
rummage the place to find food, water, and anything that will help him get
rescued. Well bring on the looters, the crazies and the absent rescue
workers, or not??? Give this a shot, I actually thought it was the best
acting done by Walker and the story was kind of a Cast Away in a hospital
setting.
FYI: Paul Walker died 3 days before the release of this
film.
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