Very Cool!!!

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Contains plot "spoilers."A nuclear reactor somehow gathers natural energy from the earth, you know wind, magnetic, and that plate shifting stuff and channels a beam of light into the atmosphere to create power so we can shut down all the oil rigs. (Message: Renewables bad. Oil good.) Nathan (Casper Van Dien) a man we know less about than the science I just fully explained, is an expect on this reactor and storms too. He is out with his family, which for some strange reason did NOT include Catherine Oxenberg. They are flying a hot air balloon, which makes for great film footage with a 500 MPH hurricane (BFH) headed you way. Can you say Oz Fest?Sarah Lieving plays the remarkably calm wife, apparently facing death is easier than living with Casper Van Dien. Her lines while facing death include:"Just calm down and play your game or something." "Honey, There is no Internet." and "I'll make sandwiches."In this film they can't shut the reactor down because they had a "core meltdown." The script writer must have moved the year they taught science in school. I am not sure what film the DVD cover is from.Nathan tries to save his family by out running and out maneuvering a BFH by darting around like a jack rabbit, making John Cusack's "2012" driving look like child's play. Don't try this at home. Ultimately his driving ability climaxes when he drives inside the tail end of a semi as it is skidding down the highway and then being thrown out the same end doing donuts, then finally moving forward outrunning said storm. I'm not sure how many laws of motion were violated in that one.This is a SyFy family production one can rate at 1 star or 5 stars for a bad film.

By far one of the worst movies ever made, from the pathetic ultra-amateurish acting led by a fellow called Casper, through the objectionable kid who plays with a couple of sticks as the world is about to end, through the laughable CG effects, to the implausibe, ridiculous story line. RUN! Unless you want to torture yourself.

One scene in this movie is worth the 4 stars I gave it. To escape the conveniently slow-enough storm moving behind them, the family car is driven through an empty truck container. They all scream as they drive in, including the hero, Nathan. The scene cuts between them doing a Star-Trek style shaking inside the car, flinging themselves about and pulling faces, while outside the car the same shot of the storm is repeated, including what looks like a big feather flying across the screen. We get to see the big feather 3 times and then the car emerges with them all still screaming - though they weren't screaming inside the truck container. This is the funniest part of the film but it is worth watching for the other laughs. Oh, and if all teenagers in low budget films were told to shut up as often as the hero's son, then the world would be a better place. Yeah, shut up Johnny.

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.