Rev Doobie 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?

carlesmiquel This film amasses all the no-no's in just one pack. Terrible ideas. Fascinating non-believable characters. Ultra-mega-super-duper powers that not even combining X-Men, Superman, Iron Man, Spiderman, Juno, The Moone Boy, Beowolf, The Thundercats and The Addams Family all in unison would have.A veritable piece of crap with no ideas, no photography or effects skills, no plausible anything (emotions, physics, script, time line, camera use, animations). The music "sounds" pretty good anyway. Cymbals and percussions are all-pervasive.I'd really love to have the same money to make something simple, with actors or people without skills but believable... and with a story to tell, to move.The one point I give to this whateveryouwanttocallit is just because they made it. It's a class on its own of what -if you're in the filmmaking industry, should never do.

Sandcooler I know a company like Asylum Films has to work with very little money and very little time, but how hard is it to shoot your movie about a hypercane (whatever the hell that is) without having a sunny blue sky in the background? I don't think I'm asking much here: you don't have to shoot during an actual hypercane (because you know, there's no such thing), but some actual clouds might have helped matters here and there. Same with the rain that pours down during the entire running time, but never seems to get anyone wet. It's all just such sloppy filmmaking, and this one doesn't even have the usual Asylum benefit of involving some far-fetched prehistoric creature. A dinoshark would have made this movie better, wrap your mind around that idea. The only thing this movie really has going for it is Casper Van Dien, who does the best he can with the material ("material" here meaning sitting in a car while pretending there's a storm). Van Dien is a pretty good performer to B-movie standards, his acting is pretty much all in his amazing teeth but at least there's some emotion there. He's a way more compelling hero than this movie deserves to have, which prompts me to give this movie a higher rating than it deserves to have. Damn you Casper Van Dien, damn you.

itsirciar I gave this movie a try because the poster is promising. My goodness, this movie is awful in many angles and ways: bad acting, poor effects, lots of inconsistencies: It was raining hard and all of a sudden it's as dry as a desert. Lines are down but they still managed to make phone calls. The storm created a fire in the forest, what the hell? Only the 3 of them plus 5 crew members in the storm center knew about the 500mph storm. Awful.I know it's a low-budget movie but that's not a reason not to make it a good one. It has a potential but failed. The production should've spent half of the budget to some good graphic movie editors/artists (or whatever you call them). One simple suggestion though, when it's raining let the people get wet.