SparkMore
n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.
HottWwjdIam
There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.
Leoni Haney
Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
Michael Alleyne
I genuinely thought this film was a comedy/parody! I had to look it up on IMDb to find out for sure!This is one seriously funny film (for all the wrong reasons!) It should be shown to all would-be film makers on the first day of class so they know NOT what to do!The script is terrible and is only made worse by what I can only describe as the kind of acting I expected when I had to endure my kid's school plays! And just when you think it can't get any worse, on comes the Weather Reporter! Never have you wanted an innocent bystander to die more!Two 'must see' parts of the film – 1) Cassie approaches a victim and asks what happened. She (shaking and shivering) points up at the sky and 2) the part which I'm going to title 'When the dogs disappear'! I wish I could list all the examples. But I'm afraid they would take longer to read than watching the film itself. This is the kind of film they should show to homeless people just so they know their life could be so much worse (they could have their name in the credits of this movie!)
stumpmee77
I watch Sci-Fi Channel's made for TV films finding them funnier than sitcoms. Sometimes though I get very, very mad. This movie falls in the invoking rage file. I chopped this critiquing way down; this has no redeeming value. I have lots to find fault with this malarkey. Yes, flinging out major spoilers in the effort of saving others considering viewing this sci-fi disaster wind bag: Opening scene those who potentially could have been this film's best characters--including a moppet who didn't pluck my nerves two seconds exposure. Killed in plane crash.Biggest rip-off from recently debuted Cloverfiled: Ouch, portion of Statue of Liberty's broken off. It's the film's special effects highlight for which I'm rating NYC: Tornado Terror a 1. Sadly on its heels, the sucky journey in tunnels subplot. Groan inducing, present at film's coolest FX extravaganza, blonde tunnel gal in shorts--last 4 minutes of movie it's made clear to me she's niece of female protagonist. For God's sake, more than rarely, a main character expressing concern for a stranger in place of a friend or relative???? I was shocked learning in another user's comment the actress in the Cassie role had played DS9's Ezri Dax. While I had wished Ezri & Jadzia had regularly shared screen time, I don't care if Mr. & Ms. Lawrence lived or died. Dying by lightning bolt, wind, one or both, get them off my screen. This couple had wan-dumb-full chemistry; a physically attractive a waste of time. Film collaborators picked up on comprising cast overrun by fashion models, the damaged Lady Liberty concepts, why couldn't they picked up avoiding dabbling too much in scientific explanations from Cloverfield? The screenplay's off the wall in terms of science. There are long scenes involving Cassie explaining what caused the phenomena. I wished to run in the room covering the gal's mouth yelling, "Shut up, just shut up!" Earth's weather turning to that of Jupiter! CGI slapped together: Lightning strikes and falling debris occurred simultaneously but not briefest shadow for falling rubble against walls of buildings lit as if in daylight. Lights Spheres changing only in area of size and floating from wall to wall, hovering in air. Here's the ultimate joke: Cassie encounters frozen dead. Very next, scene fleet of Totos, as in shape as their walkers, whisked off to heavenly dog house--leaving frozen leashes. Where's frozen doggy corpses? Most fortunate those the script elected to die in this idiocy as fatal as humans & dogs standing in a tornado wind.
moviedude1
de Boer stars as a meteorologist who witnesses something unbelievable and (no surprise, since she's the lead) is the only one who can provide an answer as to what's going on. She can even provide a solution to the problem, but (big surprise here) the mayor thinks she's a fruitcake and there's no real threat to the city.Usually someone like de Boer is what attracts me to a film like this, as I liked her when she co-starred in the final years of "Star Trek: DS9." But I'm a weather freak when it comes to tornadoes and I usually watch whatever film comes on and I see it in the guide. I apologize for the sarcasm as far as "no surprise...big surprise," but it seems like film writers and directors can't seem to get your attention unless it happens in a city like New York City. About the only thing that I find real is the attitude of the mayor and I found myself being reminded of the mayor of New York in "Ghostbusters." I guess that's why they need to make this sort of thing happen in NYC, as anyone in the central part of the US, who live with tornadoes every summer, realize the threat, but you need millions and millions of people in a centralized area to not take cover when something like this would happen.There's no way I could give a movie like this anything above two stars. It ranks right up there with the movie I saw about volcanoes in the Big Apple last year!
winstonfg
Stock, low-budget disaster flick in which the poor Big Apple gets yet another pasting; this time from schools of electrical tornadoes caused by disturbances in the upper atmosphere (due, surprise, surprise, to global warming) that lead emergency crews and weathermen a merry and deadly dance.Our heroes are Deputy Mayor James Lawrence and his meteorologist wife Cassie, played with suitable gravitas by Sebastian Spence and the lovely Nicole de Boer - definitely the prettiest Trill on Deep Space Nine - who must battle not only the elements but pinheaded bureaucrats (including Lawrence's boss) in order to test Cassie's theory for a solution to the storm gangs.Strictly rainy day fare. My vote: 4, + 1 for the chance to see Ms. de Boer again.
