Who better to play a hero taking a break from the day job than Dean Cain, TV's Superman, who headlines this competently made disaster movie. Professional fire-fighters may question the actual mechanics of tackling a blaze, but, otherwise, director Harris Done efficiently reworks the Towering Inferno formula, thanks to some impressive effects. The opening segment, in which Cain's super-crook poses as a fireman in order to facilitate the purloining of a cutting-edge microchip, lacks suspense. But the action really begins to hot up once he's called upon to rescue his target's trapped employees.

Master burglar Max Hopper is released early after three years and soon gets an exceptional job: stealing an advanced computer-chip from the IQ Industries headquarters. His first attempt fails; when he enters in cop uniform during an emergency board meeting, a fire quickly spreads- he considers it a godsend opportunity and stays, but soon has his hands too full saving other lives and just surviving to concentrate on the chip; only the owner, his wife who just filed for divorce and a few employees remain, but it soon turns out one of them stole company secrets but the arsonist and/or another chip-thieves are among them.