If this movie had focused on the actual disaster of the title, it would have been done in 10 seconds. It is hard to understand why this TV movie is considered a disaster film since most of it focused on the lives of a some of the people involved in the titular event. And that event is produced right in the beginning of the movie before the flashback. The countdown to the disaster was meaningless since nothing leading up to it had anything to do with what happened. And it really is not clear who caused the smashup or what happened to make it occur. As a character study I suppose it is passable but I guess labeling it a disaster was for lack of anything else to call it.
Review of Smash-Up on Interstate 5
