It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The girlfriend of a crazy cult leader runs away from him after he blows up a cruise ship and two years later ends up singing raunchily in a Las Vegas casino. She is spotted by a contact of the cult leader so he goes to Las Vegas to take her back. Now most people, even crazy cult leaders, would have waited until she left work and nabbed her. Simple. This one though fills the place with bombs and assaults the casino with a small army who shoot lots of people, descend from the roof and cause complete chaos enabling the ex-girlfriend to evade capture helped by two cops. Then basically it is cat and mouse in the casino. A gunfight here, an explosion there and so forth.The clichés come thick and fast. One of the cops has a big ego and is a loose cannon. One of the cops is a drinker and a bad father (his daughter turns up at one point whining at him). The police Chief yells at everybody. The villain muses philosophically. Etc. Etc.The acting could only be described as boring. The cops are interchangeable and the lead actress is so ordinary you wonder why the cult leader is so obsessed with her. The villain Maxwell has all the menace of a fluffy kitten. Having zero charisma you wonder why he had so many followers. So on all fronts not a film that reaches even to a decent level.

Alright, before I'll lend my personal opinion about this movie, let me first try and tell you a bit about the plot, and yes, I am trying very hard not to laugh while using the word "plot", but stick with me, there is sort of a story here, bad... really bad, but a story nonetheless.Maxwell is the leader of a cult (the Cult of Fury I am guessing?). He does not like where the world is headed, kids (*looks through my hastily scribbled notes*) killing each other, and pornography everywhere (there was a third thing that he didn't like, but I didn't have time to write it down, and I AM NOT seeing the movie again to get it!). The state of the world is in a bad place, but luckily Maxwell has a plan to make all this right: blow up a cruise ship killing hundreds (if not thousands?) of innocent people. Now, you gotta admire a man like that, for standing up to his convictions... and yes, that was sarcasm, pure sarcasm. But honestly, that's not entirely true, you see, he is really doing it to impress his girlfriend (soon to be wife) Tracy, like he says, as a "wedding present". Unfortunately Tracy doesn't feel quite the same way about this present, and leaves him. Luckily for her, Maxwell is nearly blind and deaf and doesn't see her 30 ft. away escaping into a car.2 years later, we are in Las Vegas. Tracy has managed to elude her old lover, but only because of sheer luck, you see, she has been hiding in Las Vegas as a showgirl with posters everywhere. You gotta admire that kind of courage, but perhaps her plan was to lure Maxwell to Las Vegas because (and I am sorry for revealing the end of the movie here) that city ultimately becomes his downfall. Sorry for that, let me try to get back on track. Maxwell has now found Tracy, but he has also found Roger and Kenny, two cops, one an egotistical clown and the other an alcoholic (who has a really cool kid, btw, with nerves of steel), who will, of course, foil his plans and save the city. Fast forward through an endless series of pointless explosions and we arrive at the Hoover dam where Maxwell finally dies, but not before bringing disaster to the movie, erh... city.OK, many good reviews have already covered all the technical faults of the movie and the extremely bad acting, so I'll skip that. Let me instead try to sell the movie to you, because there is a few good reasons to actually see the movie... 1) go see "Disaster" if you like one-liners, because I am pretty sure that the writer was paid per pound of one-liners (I am guessing that the movie made him a millionaire). 2) go see the movie if you like really bad foley work, because this movie is just awesome in that regard. The sounds are just so, awesomely wonderfully ridiculous. and 3) if you liked the bad action movies of the 80's, because this must be a homage to those, just look at the haircuts, the way they talk and even how they are dressed. Of course, since the director borrowed scenes from actual 80's films, he had to make this a period piece.Ultimately all I have to say is this, Well done to all the involved parties! You have succeeded in wasting my time and anyone else who have ever watched Disaster. I sincerely hope that you were at least paid well to sell your soul like this.

*WARNING: SPOILERS*This is one of the best acted, most intense and oh so real action movies I've ever watched. How this didn't get a theatrical release is absolutely beyond me. Or an Oscar. Marnie Alton should certainly have won an Oscar for her fantastic performance in this masterpiece of a movie, and Yossi Wein should have won an Oscar long ago for U.S Seals! I mean when that villain blew up the overpass, I could really see the fear in the eyes of that poor truck driver and it made me feel like I was there and feeling this too. All the effects were some of the best I've ever witnessed, it should have also won an Oscar for "Best Special Effects". I just can't get over how this masterpiece of cinema has gone almost unnoticed for the last 3 years. I have to make a change to that. I am going into town and handing out free copies and urging everybody to rate and review it. I know they'll enjoy it and maybe a cult following will eventually get it a theatrical release. It's such a fantastic movie I just can't over it. I am watching it just now for the 33rd time and haven't missed one minute. I've cancelled many of my plans just so I can watch this masterpiece and I feel no regret. This has brought me more joy than anything else on the planet probably could.Erm, maybe not... This movie was terrible, and for that reason, was hilarious.It's funny to think that once upon a time NuImage used to do movies like Hard Justice, The Peacekeeper, Top Of The World, Scarred City and many more. By no means were these movies masterpieces, but they were solid, well made and above all highly enjoyable action movies with excellent production values and solid action scenes. Hard Justice being one of the best direct to video action movies I've ever seen. But where did it all go wrong? Did they lose money over spending considerable budgets on movies that went direct to video? In recent years they have put out such dreck as U.S Seals, Derailed, Death Train, dreadful Operation Delta Force movie after another and much more. Why are they even employing this Yossi Wein anyway? Currently on IMDb, only one of his movies have a rating over 3 and what's even worse is that the production budgets in his movies certainly aren't as low as other awful B-movie directors like Albert Pyun, Jim Wynorski, Fred Olen Ray etc. so he has no excuse to botch them in the way he does."Sudden Damage" as it's called in the UK is quite possibly the most pointless movie of all time. I won't even get started on the script, it is ridiculous and makes no sense what so ever. Much of it takes place in a casino in Las Vegas and the climax takes place at the Hoover Dam. If you've seen the earlier, and enjoyable NuImage movie that was Top Of The World then that will probably sound overly familiar. That's because this uses footage from Top Of The World and is basically the same movie with:Worse actors who are taking the thing far too seriously. Witness one of the most boring, and most wooden and unscary villains in history.A bunch of grainy news footage of a firefight from the 1980's by the looks of things. Not just by the quality of this can you tell this is dated footage, but the vehicles, the clothes, the hairstyles etc. are enough for us to tell this is from a different era. There is no way director Yossi Wein couldn't have seen this, but I'm only assuming he didn't really care or was deliberately trying to make a bad movie.Some of the cheesiest modelwork I've ever seen. Witness an inch tall plastic toy truck exploding which doesn't even match the type of vehicle used in the footage prior to it. Honestly, this is the worst modelwork I've ever seen. If you've seen the toy train in Derailed and thought that looked bad, just wait till you see this. It's one of the funniest things I've ever seen.Car chase footage from Top Of The World which makes absolutely no sense being in this movie.Locations faked with actors standing over a static background, ,which looks like something out of the 1950's where the lighting of the sun doesn't match at all.Dreadful, out of sync voice dubbing.A cruise ship exploding with absolutely laughable CGI flames.What's even sadder about this mess is that it actually looks like Yossi Wein has been handed a budget that something decent could have been made from. The interior set of the casino is passable and there's tons of explosions and some decent stunts. However, it looks like he's decided to blow it all on a random explosion inside the building every 2 minutes. I've never seen less competent directing than this, NEVER.Overall, this is Grade Z material and the sheer quality or rather the lack of it will absolutely blow you away and it gets worse at an unbelievable rate. If you want a movie to make fun of then only Extreme Limits is a better choice than this.Oh, and the title "Disaster" is because the villain, after falling several hundred feet down the Hoover Dam courtesy of footage from Top Of The World, has enough energy left to press a button which blows up the whole dam and causes a "Disaster". This only happens in the last 4 minutes and is so badly implemented it may as well not have been included at all.

Oh this is bad. I knew within a couple minutes this was going to be awful. The cruise ship scene with the flames was a riot. It only got worse from there.Some spoilers with questions:When the attack on the casino happened, what was up with the guys coming down from the rafters on ropes? This place obviously had no security so they could have walked right in, automatic weapons and all. Also, when one of the swat guys gets blown backwards, you can see the rope pulling him backwards, twice. Oh yeah, since when does the SWAT team use a school bus (painted white).The sports car (a Miata) on the casino floor. Keys just happened to be in it and to give the illusion that one of the bad guys was going fast while driving it, they showed close ups of his face and the background as a blur. When he was shown from 20-30 feet away, he was going all of 15-20 mph (if that).Why are they always blowing up slot machines with grey painted tap lights?Numerous stock footage of police cars, ambulances, etc. Rather obvious since the film color didn't match. Also, when the bridge blows up, there is one car that goes over that makes more of an explosion that the Shell tanker that went over first!What happened to the scaffolding that Maxwell was on when they showed him at the bottom of the dam?Too many other things to list. Wonder what the budget was for this...