Leofwine_draca Yay! I found another fun Asylum movie. Like AIRPLANE VS VOLCANO, this one's a low budget cheese-fest of a B-movie, replete with stock footage, cheesy CGI and more overacting than you can shake a stick at...and yet it also happens to be amusing and a fair bit of fun, given the zero expectations that anyone familiar with the studio will bring to it.Ming-Na (an attractive Chinese actress who supplied the voice of MULAN in the Disney movie) plays a top scientist who must spring into action when the titular weather phenomenon brings menace to the western seaboard of the USA. Meanwhile, an oil rig turns out to have been built on top of a volcano (don't you hate it when that happens?), which means there's all kind of disaster taking place constantly.The level of drama is high, as is the level of cheesy acting, so I was laughing half the time. My favourite part of the movie sees Ming-Na and her colleagues embarking on a journey where they're confronted by seemingly every type of extreme weather event: hail, earthquakes, floods, cyclones, and of course burning fireballs from the heavens. It's all ridiculous but at the same time the narrative is so fast-paced that you don't have time to pay attention to how poor it is. That's why I liked it...

jrobert859 This movie is so bad and yet so funny at the same time that I found myself enjoying it from a humor standpoint. If you are expecting a serious film this one is not it. I would not be surprised if the filmmakers had three days to make this movie with a budget just over $50. I hope so anyway because if the budget was much bigger it would clearly be the worst piece of film work I have seen in my life time. OK, it is still the worst piece of film work on any budget.I am an amateur filmmaker and I can tell you that there is no excuse today for making a movie that looks as bad as this one does. The cinematography is pretty awful. I am easily able to better it with a camera kit that costs just over $1,000 without even putting much effort into it. Honestly with proper lighting techniques I am sure you could best a lot of what you see here with an Iphone camera. Perhaps the most annoying thing, and there are many, is the fact that the story takes place during the onslaught of a huge tornadic storm but all of the exterior shots feature blue sky and sunshine. There are several tutorials I have seen on how to make day shots look like night and some variation of these simple techniques would have helped a lot here. Some minor corrections in post with a cheap piece of editing software also could have done wonders. With the cost of cameras and editing materials today you can do much better then this.Putting aside the way the film looks however this is just a bad movie. Even if you have a better visual experience the acting, story, and visual effects are all pretty horrible. Like I said earlier if you go into this thinking that you want a laugh this might be a good experience. At the very least if you are a beginning filmmaker you will feel good watching this as I am sure your own stuff does not look this bad. If someone can get this work distributed as it is there is hope for everyone. Please just make a better movie then this!

Save_Hannibal If you have come to expect Asylum films to be anything other then they are, you will be disappointed. You HAVE to know that the producers, actors, crew, and even the caterer (if they could afford one) knew exactly what they were producing. There is no possible way the could have thought there were making and Oscar worthy film. At least that is what I hope! It is so unbelievably bad it is worth a watch. We have a tradition of bad movie night and we usually cannot make it through a whole movie without turning it off. This one we just couldn't. It held us to our seats the whole time. Great family fun to point out all the oh so obvious errors, cheesy special affects and making sure to keep track on how many times they say Super Cyclone or the varying time frame the storm is gonna hit somewhere (doesnt mater where). I wish all super storms were so sunny and with such nice weather. I love running through rain and never getting wet, or flaming hail and never getting hit (yes! FLAMING hail!). It is my ultimate dream to be in a helicopter, a boat, and a car that all get swept up into a vortex and nothing happens but being placed down gently.Again, you have to believe that all those involved knew exactly what they were doing. Then you can look at what this film is....and I still don't know myself.

PegasusTomassini The blurb from DirecTV about this movie mentions that 2 of the characters are trying to stop a superstorm from devastating the entire EASTERN (my emphasis) seaboard. Only problem with this blurb is that, as you find out within the first 5-10 minutes of the movie, the storm is set to hit California which is about 3,000 miles from the EASTERN seaboard because it is actually on the WESTERN seaboard. As is typical for fare from The Asylum, bad overacting, bad special effects, bad everything is the norm but that is what makes them enjoyable for me because I get to laugh during the majority of the "disaster". Do not get me wrong, I also enjoy mainstream disaster movies such as Armaggedon, 2012, Meteor, Asteroid, Twister, Deep Impact etc but I enjoy the mainstream ones because they make me have appropriate emotions for there being a disaster occurring.In a nutshell, if you have enjoyed other The Asylum movies, then you will enjoy this one but if you are looking for it to be on a par of a movie like Armaggedon, then look elsewhere.