It’s actually a STUPID SF standby used on B movies that people make fun of for their frequently dumb story lines.
“Great” action scenes have no meaning once the story has gotten stupid. For an action scene to be great you have to care if the characters live or die, when the story has gotten dumb and your disbelief has been return you don’t care if they live or die. It had well filmed action scenes, but that’s to be expected, Spielberg always films things well, but like so many of his movies it was a crap script that didn’t deserve his talents.
It goes back to ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’ The script was a clothesline for him to use his talents - which were enough in this case - especially considering the film was much shorter than anything he had done in a long time.