Don't listen to the negative reviews

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Please don't tell me you rate a movie like this based on scientific accuracy!It's a made for TV action thriller type movie called Atomic Twister for crimeny's sake.I personally love this move because it has all of the things I look for in a movie like this, and I'm surprised at how clueless so many reviewers are for not understanding this movie and judging it for what it is.1) Things go bad. Then while trying to figure those things out, things go from bad to worse. Rinse and repeat at least twice more for a really good movie. This classic movie maxes out the "things-go-bad-a-meter!!!!2) Sorry ladies but it's a man's world when it comes to these kinds of movies so guess what #2 is? And I don't mean bowel movements. Yes that's right, babes. This movie has 3 built in mega-babes IMO. Sharon Lawrence is proof of the existence of a higher being, period. The baby sitter playing twister? Seriously? That little boy is my doppelganger I swear. He's a frigging genius. And the sheriff's daughter, oh yeah! 3)The authorities always act like they're god, and anyone below them better quake in their shoes when they speak. Uh huh, sure, that kind of attitude always works out so well for them. 4) Last one. There's always a super genius guy, or rarely even a gal, who has been wronged by the system and sets out to vindicate themselves by making at least one really stupid move. That puts everyone else in danger.All of those requirements are in full force here and its pure entertainment from start to finish.Sorry but anyone who actually tries to take this seriously, and claims to for instance be a physicist or work in the atomic energy field need not comment here because you're just plain missing the point, and just plain wrong.Seriously, to paraphrase William Hurt in The Big Chill. "Sometimes you just have to let art flow over you." This one flows over me just fine because I don't take it seriously; I take it the way they meant it to be taken, as a fun crazy sometimes silly joyride. One that makes me very happy every time I watch it. Heed my advice and enjoy people, it's only a silly movie.

Did I lie awake in bed at night, unable to get to sleep, after watching this movie?Yes.Was it because of the film's tense and convincing portrayal of impending nuclear catastrophe?No.Was it because, try as I might, I just couldn't conceive how someone managed to get this film funded, even if it only cost fifty quid to make?Yes.A worthy example of one of my favourite so-bad-it's-good film genres, the 'Nearly Disaster' movie.The calibre of the dialogue, the intensity of the performances and the realism of the representation make for an all round stunner of a movie.

I thought it might be from the 'Airplane' stable and expected Leslie Nielson to suddenly appear to check out the reactor with his stethoscope. Admittedly, it was made for TV so we don't expect Hitchcock or Spielberg, nor do we expect quality performances but this film was sunk by cliché, incoherent direction, wooden acting and afternoon soap-opera production values. At every crisis, when we are told everything will go critical in three minutes, we are diverted to another lengthy scene with sloppy, sentimental kids and policemen overcoming their past personality disorders, termagant truckers and 'authority' being challenged. The three minutes must have been up twelve times and counting in the second reel - but this director managed to remove any potential for tension by flabby timing, irrelevant digressions and unintentional humour arising, I suspect, out of a complete lack of empathy with the subject. The cast run about like hysterical hens - even Homer Simpson makes a more convincing safety officer - the technology is plain daft - the dialogue and action is drenched in the sort of syrupy saccharine emotion which seems to dominate the American film industry - and, of course they all 'lurve' each other at the end- The house collapses but the corpse's makeup is intact and the little boy finds his crash helmet before he takes his bicycle out on the freeway! One of the cast prays at the end and so, I suspect, does the producer!

From Meteorology to Nuclear Physics, this film shows complete disregard for basic common sense. One security guard on duty at a nuclear power plant? How long can one tornado stay on the ground? It takes four people to run a reactor? Sharon Lawrence over acts at every opportunity and not entirely sure why her blouse is one size too small. It is so obvious that the film is written and produced by people who are prejudiced against nuclear power. Every aspect of the power plant's operation are made up and so far from truth that I wonder if it is more of a vehicle to persuade people to reject completely nuclear power, than a film with some artistic liberties. I laughed most of the way through the film. It would have earned more stars from me if they had been honest and listed the film as a comedy.