Good Effects, VERY BAD SCRIPT

I actually remember seeing trailers for "the flood" during late 96' around the time Scream 1 came out, and was pretty impressed by the original trailer, but then the film never came out that summer, two years later some movie pops up with the title of Hard Rain with the same stuff from the flood trailer, i was totally confused then remembered that was the movie i was waiting for two years ago. The new trailer which gave more detail then the previous one felt horribly underwhelming and unexciting and pretty much made my expectations go way down for the film, not to mention they made us wait two years before its release. Once I saw the film i can understand why, the script was GOD AWFUL, terribal beyond words, characters doing the dumbest things and acting totally unhuman. The filmmakers did not even try to make them human, seems to me all thought went into the effects because no attention was paid to the script. The film is basically a pretty standard actioner with lots of water. 3 million is probably enough money to make people go crazy but i think they could have made a more credible reason for these characters to stick around during a dangerous flood. The filmmakers were totally irresponsible on this one and it is their fault the film tanked.