Review – Tidal Wave: No Escape

No, this can be escaped. Just turn it off. Or better yet, never turn it on to begin with. Corbin Bernsen stars in this low-budget flick about a scientist who uncovers a plot to use torpedoes with nuclear warheads to create tsunamis that destroy only small, targeted areas of coastline. But don’t worry too much about the plot. It runs a distant second to the awful script, featuring dialogue that’s bad even by the loose standards of productions like this. Indeed, even the set work may be more awful than the story line. In particular, the headquarters of the company (scientific consortium? government agency? it’s never made quite clear) trying to sort out the mystery looks for all the world like a museum gift shop. About the most amusement I got out of this was noting that it was produced way back in 1997, when large-scale terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and killer tsunamis were the stuff of bad sci fi movies. See if desperate