3/23/2023 0 Comments Action movie fx tornado![]() and you've got yourself another destructo-movie. Toss in a few lovey-dovey relationships, some untimely deaths, enough scientific facts to fool the kiddos. The bureaucrats have all the power, connections, and money but don't believe the scientists. The scientists have all the answers but no power or money. Let me sum this up for you: Oh my God, the weather is going bonkers and threatening to kill us all. Yes, I grant that this is sci-fi, but still. Having already gone through this at Intuitor's Bad Movie Physics site with "The Day After Tomorrow", it's already been proved that these weather phenomena cannot occur. Believability: really sucked (even for science fiction). Some of these actors are rather well-known, so I was quite surprised that this movie still managed to suck so badly. On the whole, just terrible with no redeeming values. The characters are irritating and not much is done to develop them, while the direction is sloppy and the acting leaves an impression that the actors had forgotten their acting lessons, if even that. This and how the effects are used throughout are the reasons why Tornado Terror feels so diluted on the suspense factor. The story suffers from being very sluggishly paced and predictable in structure. ![]() The script is unbearably corny, where I could have been biting my nails or admiring an intelligent line I was laughing unintentionally at the cheesiness at some of the one-liners. The special effects are also really awful, crude and very fake-looking and further suffer from heavy over-use. I have seen worse editing, but that is saying very little as it is very hackneyed here, and the lighting is dull even for a disaster movie. ![]() While Tornado Terror is nowhere near SyFy's worst, it is down there among their many terrible movies. Not all of them are bad actually, but even the best ones have flaws to them. Move along, folks, there's nothing here you haven't seen before (and better.)ĭespite it looking the contrary, I don't take pride in criticising the majority of the SyFy channel's movies. And calling this movie "Tornado Terror" is odd, seeing that the tornadoes only appear at the beginning and just before the end, leaving a long, dull, middle section. The script is filled with familiar stuff like a stubborn mayor who won't listen to those who know the real danger. Most of the computer generated effects look TERRIBLE, for one thing. But that's about all I found positive about this movie. Plus, it's hard to totally knock a movie that has the guts to not only kill kids, but dogs as well. The general production values look decent - plenty of extras in the backgrounds, well-lit scenes, and looking like some decent money was spent at some point. Anyway, I guess I found a few positive things in this movie. Actually, given that distinctly Canadian movies tend to be boring arty stuff, I don't blame these filmmakers for trying to pass this off as an American movie. Once again, we get a movie made by Canadian filmmakers that doesn't take place in Canada but instead the United States. It ranks right up there with the movie I saw about volcanoes in the Big Apple last year! There's no way I could give a movie like this anything above two stars. About the only thing that I find real is the attitude of the mayor and I found myself being reminded of the mayor of New York in "Ghostbusters." I guess that's why they need to make this sort of thing happen in NYC, as anyone in the central part of the US, who live with tornadoes every summer, realize the threat, but you need millions and millions of people in a centralized area to not take cover when something like this would happen. ![]() I apologize for the sarcasm as far as "no surprise.big surprise," but it seems like film writers and directors can't seem to get your attention unless it happens in a city like New York City. Usually someone like de Boer is what attracts me to a film like this, as I liked her when she co-starred in the final years of "Star Trek: DS9." But I'm a weather freak when it comes to tornadoes and I usually watch whatever film comes on and I see it in the guide. She can even provide a solution to the problem, but (big surprise here) the mayor thinks she's a fruitcake and there's no real threat to the city. De Boer stars as a meteorologist who witnesses something unbelievable and (no surprise, since she's the lead) is the only one who can provide an answer as to what's going on.
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