the audience applauded

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

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Film catastrophe(in both senses). The whole planet is devastated by mega-storms, hurricanes, tornadoes. All the characters, for 2 hours 49min, they fret and fuss, waiting for the end of the world. There are not missing some frogs and flies as biblical signs. To make matters worse, at the half of the movie, some villains kidnap a few young people, including the son of the main character, who tries to save the world, FEMA Director Judith Carr (Gina Gershon). The most sympathetic character is Tornado Tommy Dixon, played by the natural Randy Quaid. Other actors, including Robert Wagner, John Kapel, James Brolin, Swoosie Kurtz, Tom Skerritt and even Gina Gershon, all alike it seems they have a thick carrot stuck in their ass(I think they were aware of how bad is the script). So, it's really the end of the world? No, they changed their mind, just wanted to scare you again, like in all those catastrophic productions, they have a happy ending, as usual...

I like bad movies. In fact, I collect them. Some because the figures who created them are fascinating(e.g., Ed Wood). Some others because they're SO bad they're entertaining in themselves (e.g., "Robot Monster." I got this one as part of a cheap collection of disaster flicks. I can only summarize it based on I'm amazed any company put up the money for such a story; the bad guys all die--I especially like the scene where one of the kidnapped uses a shotgun to blow down the door of a room causing the kidnappers to get sucked into the sky by a tornado. He then enters the room and his hair doesn't even get mussed up.The good guys? The only ones who die are heroes, e.g., Tom Skerrit's character, a colonel whose SR71 gets ripped apart.(The plane, by the way, doesn't do what the movie suggests that it does).This flick might not be bad for a 6 year old. After that, it's just inane.

This movie has everything you could ask for: pro environmentalist propaganda; anti religious cynicism; meaningless violence; defacement of patriotic symbols; erratic camera work that gave me a headache; every moment is a high point; countless has-been actors in cameo roles.I think this is another example of a completely synthetic production. They added up years of data taken from observing successful action films of the past and just sort of threw it all together. The nice thing is that it doesn't matter where you come into the movie or where you exit. It is so homogeneous that any portion is an action film unto itself.I realized after a while that it would make a good music video. When I turned off the sound and tuned the radio to a modern rock station, it actually worked. The commercials kind of messed that up. It would have been good to TiVo it and cut them out. Oh well, next time.

First of all --it is a television movie, so you have to give it some credit for all the special effects and story lines. It's nice to see some older TV personalities employed and working.I've seen a lot of comparisons to another movie that evidently Category 7 borrowed some scenes from. Well I didn't see that movie, so I wasn't disappointed by the footage in the slightest.It had a lot of action, drama, and several plot lines going on, which kept my interest. I was on the edge of my seat watching. As for Randy Quaid, it was enjoyable seeing him reprise his similar crazy Independence Role. It was funny the first time, and was definitely the comedy relief needed a second time--for this movie.Most of all, the whole family can watch it, enjoy it, and actually think about the whole synopsis behind it.