I originally saw this movie as a young child, and being the avid tornado enthusiast that I was at the time, I thought this to be the best movie ever. I was about as transfixed on the tornadoes as Helen Hunt's character, except instead of being oblivious to the obvious danger, I was oblivious to how bad a movie this actually was. This is exactly what they're going for. There are about 5 intense tornado encounters throughout this movie, and each one is more extreme than the last. Ironically, the movie in between increasingly gets worse and worse. It's like they're upping the tornado intensity to get you to forget that they can't fill the scenes in between with anything better than crap.
The dialogue and actions of the characters make no sense at all. The storm chasing team's major goal is to get a measurement device in front of tornado so that it can take readings and provide information that will lead to better tornado warning times. Bill Paxton can predict the weather by throwing dirt in the air and looking at the sky, and his character is so annoying in this movie that you wish they would have had him sucked up instead of their weather machine. This movie can't even use clichés correctly. Cheesy lines such as "the cone of silence", "they're going to punch the core", and "suck zone" are used in situations where screen silence would have been less awkward. Despite Bill's miraculous weather predicting powers, they find themselves almost getting killed by every tornado they're chasing.
I would rate this film an F5. It sucked worse than any tornado I've ever seen.
The dialogue and actions of the characters make no sense at all. The storm chasing team's major goal is to get a measurement device in front of tornado so that it can take readings and provide information that will lead to better tornado warning times. Bill Paxton can predict the weather by throwing dirt in the air and looking at the sky, and his character is so annoying in this movie that you wish they would have had him sucked up instead of their weather machine. This movie can't even use clichés correctly. Cheesy lines such as "the cone of silence", "they're going to punch the core", and "suck zone" are used in situations where screen silence would have been less awkward. Despite Bill's miraculous weather predicting powers, they find themselves almost getting killed by every tornado they're chasing.
I would rate this film an F5. It sucked worse than any tornado I've ever seen.
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