Excellent but underrated film

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

May contain plot spoilers.Judd Walker is a widowed misogynistic farmer pestered my alien tornadoes. We never get to see the aliens because they are made of energy and are causing tornadoes because...???.. maybe we beamed "Gilligan's Island" into space? Judd meets up with a cleavage storm chaser (Kari Wuhrer) to prove to the world even the most disgusting man can land a babe if they save the world together. Her name is.....wait for it....Gale.Judd has a daughter Kelly (Stacey Asaro) who is under the impression that the only way she can get accepted into the University of Malaysia is to study hard and save the world from green funnel tornadoes.Of course aliens attacking Chicago is not enough action for any film shown on SyFy, there must also be MIBs who hamper us from saving us.This is standard low quality SyFy fare, Asylum grade entertainment.No f-bombs, sex, or nudity on TV version. Kids should like it.

I was in doubt to review this. It's so bad, I may have not enough words to reach the minimum for an IMDb review. Acting was terrible, like high school stage. I quit watching at (I think) near the end when they would signal the aliens with some recording from a laptop, or something. It's just an insult to the intelligence of the watcher. If you make SciFi, please make it somewhat plausible, that's what it's all about with SciFi. What the script writes came up with in this "movie"... it goes beyond common sense, together with the unrealistic setting and very poor CGI (only some alien light enhanced tornado, multiple times, that's all you see) it is a waste of time to watch this.

I had to turn it off as I was fed up with the poor Dad being ripped into by 1: The selfish Daughter who just can't see that she wouldn't of had the happy life she lived until she opened her mail that afternoon. 2: The women who comes in owning the show 3: The lady who will never make a disability claim again once she gets in the car! Plus clearly can follow a script .... Word for word. 4: The idiots who can't decide which side of the road to drive on 5: The famous dramatic turn aways. Hell now I'm intrigued to what will become of this poor guy, what's the bets he dies, comes back to life thanks to an alien and then they all love him.

I saw the previews for this movie on the Syfy channel a few days ago and thought it was going to be a really good movie to watch considering that they viewed all of the action parts. Turns out that this movie was a complete letdown.First of all, let us focus on the good parts of the movie:The design for the alien tornadoes was pretty interesting, emitting a bright green glow. They also have the power to shoot lightning bolts from the spinning vortex and grab running pedestrians with funnel-like tentacles and carry them beyond the clouds.The destruction of the city is pretty cool, especially when the scoreboard from the Chicago baseball stadium flies right into your face before a commercial break.Well, that's pretty much it for the good parts, now onto the bad ones, and trust me there are a lot. I structured them into a few categories.Characters:Most of the characters that we encounter are hardly even learned about. All we know is Judd who possibly lost his wife in a twister four years ago, Kelly is a farm girl who brushes horses and is the first girl in the family to get an opportunity to go to college(she wants to be a scientist and is basically the heroine of the movie), Gail is a scientist who frequently reports daily news on her website and is a storm chaser, Norm who is a county sheriff that is trying to do his job, some woman who rides a moped and is Gail's number one fan, and that's it.Everybody else is just so faint and unrecognizable. These actors ceased to make me feel like some people are important, however I felt that the actor who played the cop and the actress who played Shelly were more credible.Plot:The plot is just ridiculous. After an hour into the movie I had no idea what the hell was happening. There are so many questions that are unanswered. What exactly happened to their mother (yes, it was probably a twister "back in 2008"?) Who are these bosses that Armstrong keeps referring to? Why are the aliens attacking in the first place, and how do they exist in Earth's clouds? After the aliens were sent back, what happened to those who were sent up in the clouds, are they supposed to be raining down? WHERE DID THEY GO?Special effects:As before, this was probably the only thing that made this movie watchable but at the same time it barely shows anything being destroyed, especially during the farm scene in the beginning when it is first revealed.Concept:By using the power of technology to transmit signals in order to communicate with aliens "in the clouds," humanity has the ability to cease utter and apocalyptic destruction from several F5 tornadoes, with winds up to 350 miles per hour, instead of the most humane thing which is hiding inside a house's basement to prevent serious injury (Armstrong even says this in the movie).Lessons:The lessons in this movie are horrible: -leaving your child abandoned near a bridge -promising to save money for your daughter's college fund and instead use it to cover property insurance for a twister that previously hit four years ago, then telling it to her when it's already too late -trusting nobody that can possibly stop the chaos -getting into a car with a stranger (it was even SAID IN THE MOVIE)References:I can't believe the worker for the Channel 37 news station (I think he was Terry) compared the destruction and collapse of buildings to the real-life terrorist attack on September 11th, 2001. Are you serious?! Whoever wrote the script for this movie took it a little too far.Conclusion:This movie is horribly confusing and boring. The only remarkable thing that was interesting, like I said before, were the effects but that was just a minor improvement. This movie is as terrible and boring as Triassic Attack, but 2012: Ice Age and Polar Storm on the other hand were slightly better in my opinion. This is the kind of movie one would watch if you want to punish and bore yourself to death. Stick to other movies instead.