Our indestructible Duke again has made actionful, if not stirringly meaningful, child's play of exotic disasters.

A slow moving, talkative, badly plotted bore.

The suds from all these soap-opera shenanigans theoretically should have been enough to douse all the fires seen throughout this draggy picture.

All the ingredients (cliches) of the John Wayne hero are here, from commitment to his job as firefighter to a wife who couldn't accept him to a daughter who affects reconciliation.