this movie be an entirely forgettable low budget production . it get dumb writing and obnoxious contrive character and situation serve only a random obstacle to a paperthin plot have to do with some world threaten geological disorder and which and accord to the scientist and can be fix only by nuke the city of los angeles . that it . that the whole movie represent the president ( rutger hauer ) say go for it and so they go nuke l. a. kaboom and the end . except for those obstacle along the way and which be represent 1 ) traffic . they do not just fly the damn bomb in on a helicopter and they drive it from the airport . while the city be be evacuate . 2 ) then there some annoy guy with a blowtorch and who want to set fire to some chick and who be the daughter of the special force colonel assign to nuke l. a. while she get out of her mess by use some gratuitously product place pager to page ( oh no sorry represent instant message ) daddy . this pointless subplot grate on forever and but even that do not quite manage to pad the movie to the intended length of 95 minute and so they throw in obstacle number 3 represent some other annoy guy who annoy everyone for another 15 minute or so and at which point the good guy blow up l. a along with the annoy guy and everybody happy . unbelievable piece of trash . oh and if you have to watch this and be sure to look for all the lifted piece of footage from other film and the last l. a. riot . the cheapo f or x be pretty fun too .