500 MPH Storm (2013)

Best movie of this year hands down!

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Awesome Movie

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Note: I watched this on Prime on a 1080p-capable TV. Good image quality and mediocre movie."500 MPH Storm" is one of several environmental disaster films produced by The Asylum for Sy Fy Channel. In this one, scientists in a bunker somewhere manipulate the weather with the use of mysterious machine. A meteorologist travels with his family from venue to venue to outrun the storm that seems to be uniquely chasing them and no one else. There's a subplot about how the bunker scientists can fire a laser at just the right place to "stop" the storm as if it were a monster. Yawn. There isn't much to see here sadly. The film takes itself way too seriously and the actors are generally good enough not to induce giggles. There is a funny sequence where the main guy's wife tells his son to "game" while they are driving. It isn't played for laughs, which makes it even funnier. At least the main actors are pleasant to look at and the actress seems to run around without a bra under her shirt.After about an hour you're ready for the film to end because nothing really happens. It's a series of 1) run from the storm, 2) scientific talk, 3) repeat. There are a few scenes of people stealing cars which are welcome because the films follows its pattern so closely. Like many films from The Asylum, this one suffers from the plot-driven antagonist who shows up whenever the movie has become boring and magically disappears for a few minutes. It's especially jarring here because you see scenes of stormy weather to be followed by bright sunshine. Would it have been too hard to film some time in the clouds? It would also have been nice to see more than just a few other people on the roads. Too boring to recommend.

Contains plot "spoilers."A nuclear reactor somehow gathers natural energy from the earth, you know wind, magnetic, and that plate shifting stuff and channels a beam of light into the atmosphere to create power so we can shut down all the oil rigs. (Message: Renewables bad. Oil good.) Nathan (Casper Van Dien) a man we know less about than the science I just fully explained, is an expect on this reactor and storms too. He is out with his family, which for some strange reason did NOT include Catherine Oxenberg. They are flying a hot air balloon, which makes for great film footage with a 500 MPH hurricane (BFH) headed you way. Can you say Oz Fest?Sarah Lieving plays the remarkably calm wife, apparently facing death is easier than living with Casper Van Dien. Her lines while facing death include:"Just calm down and play your game or something." "Honey, There is no Internet." and "I'll make sandwiches."In this film they can't shut the reactor down because they had a "core meltdown." The script writer must have moved the year they taught science in school. I am not sure what film the DVD cover is from.Nathan tries to save his family by out running and out maneuvering a BFH by darting around like a jack rabbit, making John Cusack's "2012" driving look like child's play. Don't try this at home. Ultimately his driving ability climaxes when he drives inside the tail end of a semi as it is skidding down the highway and then being thrown out the same end doing donuts, then finally moving forward outrunning said storm. I'm not sure how many laws of motion were violated in that one.This is a SyFy family production one can rate at 1 star or 5 stars for a bad film.

By far one of the worst movies ever made, from the pathetic ultra-amateurish acting led by a fellow called Casper, through the objectionable kid who plays with a couple of sticks as the world is about to end, through the laughable CG effects, to the implausibe, ridiculous story line. RUN! Unless you want to torture yourself.

Like many, I enjoy a truly bad movie almost as much as a great one. However, it requires some redeeming qualities. For instance, I recall a recent film about giant mosquitoes attacking humanity. I can't remember the name of the movie but that's not important. The mosquitoes weren't computer animated, but marionette-ish. In a scene where the first victim was fatally attacked, it was readily apparent that the "blood" filling the mosquitoes' "sack" was merely a giant red balloon being filled with a clandestine air line. Love it! Along with cheesy yet creative attempts at special effects, give me at least one character with which I can develop a sense of empathy. This film offers neither, and less.Within the first 10 minutes you will be hoping the family, the folks we're supposed to root for, just dies. None of them are likable. They don't even seem to like each other. You will then want to cheer for the storm (to kill the family), but like all the characters in this film, it too lacks depth.The pathetic special effects are as entertaining as being "it" in the game of tag when all your playmates are recent check-ins at the morgue. Seriously, a guy about to get sucked into nonexistence in the middle of a hurricane, yet it looks like a 20" box fan 15' away is blowing his hair around? And what about the exploding bodies? Didn't see them, you won't either. They could have over inflated some blow up dolls with ketchup, I would have doubled my rating.This film shows that you get what you pay for when all efforts and resources are directed towards cheap computer animation and nothing else, it gets tired quick.Nail clippers anyone?