Panique à la Nouvelle-Orléans

A geology consultant(John Corbett)teams with a city official(Jessica Beauchamp)to stop a sinkhole from enveloping New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Interesting story, but not enough special effects to support it. Most interesting is Brittany Daniel the niece of Beauchamp's character. HOT. Predictable finale. Also in the cast are Eugene Clark and Ron Gabriel.

This movie is not pretentious so we do not have to judge it if it is. Nice storyline,mediocre acting and horrible special effects. 5 out of 10. A typical TV movie,if you have nothing else to do, check it out. I don't think this movie was made with a large budget and it clearly shows. It must say something about this movie that I have some difficulties to complete ten lines about it. Here goes,I don't consider John Corbet to be a good actor and he proofs it once again in this movie. He is just as bad as in Sex and the City, he never convinces. Who does convince is ms Steen as Allison Beauchamp, she probably will never perform in a large production but as her resume shows she'll easily reach her retirement as an actor.

A familiar looking cast, one two of them, I think corbet was in my big fat Greek wedding and northern exposure? I haven't seen either and Brittany Daniel not to get confused with little black book, 8 mile brittany murphy. Now I have seen her in 90210 and broken lizards club dread. Anyway what I'm trying to say is it has a couple of minor stars that careers should have taken a dive after this landsfill grounded. The dialogue gets too detailed for a such a dumb big goofy disaster movie. I still don't know how or what the actual disaster was? Perhaps I misread the lines, and this is suppose to be a thinking mans disaster pic? We start to care about corbett towards the end, and think just maybe one cast member could be sacrificed...The stuff they fill holes with reminds me of evolution for some reason? Its situated in New orleans during mardi gra but the boys will be sad pressed to find what they're looking for. I watched it on TV so only saved $ just lost time.

RE: the acting: John Corbett is totally wasted. RE: the writing: SOMEONE was totally wasted when they wrote this, dude!

A) New Orleans sits well out into the Gulf of Mexico. There are no caverns under it; there is only sand and water. "on Hostile Mud" maybe; or "In Hostile Muck." But "ground?" I don't think so.

B) Liquid polyurethane fumes are toxic. Poor John would have stopped running and took a little nap long before he got out of the cave.

C) What's to stop the foam from continuing to expand after it surfaces? I envision the sequel as "The blob that ate New Orleans."

Why, oh why New Orleans? I would have gone with Orlando. They have sinkholes; the Magic Kingdom has parades; Brittany Daniel could wear a skin-tight white jumpsuit and look good ANYWHERE.

Reccommendation: Be totally wasted when you watch this.

I have seen all of the recent crop of disaster films and just wish they would stop making them! Sinkholes?! Tornadoes and volcanoes can be scary, but sinkholes?! I can't get past the fact that moviemakers seem to have run out of ideas. In all fairness it was a cheap TV picture, but still, sinkholes?! Besides the weak natural disaster the movie follows every formula from every other movie of this type. The lead is afraid to evacuate due to some previous mistake, yet still has time for a love interest etc...