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It never hides the fact that it's a very silly film

It's no more consciously racist than a hundred action thrillers from the '80s. It's meant, I think, to be a throwback to those films, and to an era where Mel Gibson was still on top, but it lacks the snap and pizzazz to close the deal.

Force of Nature is supposed to take place during a hurricane, but the movie itself is another kind of disaster.

Works best when Gibson is onscreen to rain belligerence on all comers but gradually disintegrates in its last act.

The material's exploitation of a fictional Puerto Rican hurricane for cheap and contrived white-savior thrills pushes it into the realm of ugliness.