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The Storm (2009)
Storm = Lame
John Larroquette was prominently featured in the commercials, and was in the movie less than 5 minutes total in all his scenes. Most of the main characters in this poor natural disaster movie get shot by hit men. This is more of a shaggy dog movie then a murder mystery...oh wait, this was supposed to be a different movie...but I forget...just like the plot. You follow 1 guy, Dr. Kirk, in the movie as he runs in the rain from assassins, police, and an investigator. The FBI is quick to take him from the police as soon as he reveals to them the reason everyone he has met in the last few hours are dead and he is blamed for. Only to be returned to the military funded and ran weather control system to right everything. Then those feds are killed and Dr. Kirk (Luke Perry) while in transit and is kidnapped by the military and taken hooded to an abandoned factory, and introduced to a new character (played by James Van Der Beek) 15 minutes from the end of the first half of the movie(can we say Red Herring), who says that those who he worked for want him dead and not back to fix the problem the military created. This was made clear 10 minutes in to the show. Therefore, all that is in between is fluff. All the special effects, the constant senseless murders, and weather updates only help to drag out a weak plot. 5 minutes from the end of the movie, James Van Der Beek's character reveals he was the guy who first started the program that Luke Perry was head of. Telling him the more you mess with the weather, the worst it gets. Cut to chaos on the screen, more rain, lightning and a pregnant woman in a hospital finally giving birth. More "techno-babble" from Luke Perry's replacement at the military funded weather control system. Hr states that the fixed the problem, only to realize it is actually worst. Plans start getting hit with wind shear and crash. It seems this movie was filmed one way, and then went another way with film clips of the old intended movie spliced in. The first half (2 hour movie of the week) was what appears to be a Hodge podge of scenes and scenes where characters were killed off almost as soon as introduced. The second half has me deciding to skip it.
Bad first half of a 2 part movie of the week. Sci-Fi channel could have done better, and that's not saying much.