Wonderful character development!

Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

I liked "Storm Cell" a lot, it was emotional and i was glued to my TV while watching. Other movies of its genre have terrible and unrealistic effects, and besides the occasional unrealistic effects in this movie, it seemed real. Yet, its not always about the effects, and how good they are, because the acting in this movie was superb. A lot of emotions were shown and castes out well. I liked the beginning of the movie, it gave the movie a good opening. I felt that the cast were very suitable with their characters, Mimi Rogers did a great job as the mother, she was very understandable, but also gave the movie a good backbone. There was a specific type of mood in this movie, it was a very dull mood, but it was thrilling too, because you cant stop watching. There are some good syfy movies out there, but this one had the best acting out of all that i have seen in them. I recommend it to any 'end of the world' movie addicts, fans of Mimi Rogers, but mostly those who want to watch a nice action/drama!

Bad acting, bad plot, bad special effects, bad science; this movie has it all. If it were worse it might qualify as "so bad it's good" but alas. One of the overarching problems of this movie was that it had so many subplots that it couldn't focus on any of them and constantly jumped between parts that had little or nothing to do with each other.Much of the plot (and I use the term loosely) of this movie is ripped off from Twister, quite blatantly in at least two scenes. It somehow manages to make the elements from Twister into something almost silly. Of course this movie tries to explore the common plot of the parent ignoring her child by obsessing over work, but it doesn't even pull that off. Considering that April knows what is going on in a life-threatening situation, it would have been wrong of her not to become involved. Rather than an uninvolved parent who favors work over family, I got the impression of a concerned scientist surrounded by morons. Dana is not sympathetic at all, but comes across as overly demanding and bratty. Then there is the old romance with Travis the meteorologist, which was just thrown in. The revelation that he is Dana's father could have made for an interesting plot, had it not come up at the most random point in the movie, been forgotten almost as soon as it was mentioned, and not brought up again until the very end. This was on top of the fact that it was so predictable that I initially dismissed the notion. The earlier part of the movie, introduced after the death of April's parents, seems to have simply been thrown in and really has nothing to do with the rest of the movie. Global warming is discussed in this early sequence but isn't mentioned again. Then there is the student who accompanies April on the chase. He is introduced as if he is going to be a major character, only to be never seen or mentioned again after April goes to Washington. The special effects were cheesy. The CGI was about the same quality as you'll see in home-made animations. The tornadoes were basically the same funnel copied and pasted into different scenes. Some of the satellite images show clouds swirling to one of the most basic effects of photoshop. Movies more than a decade older than this easily surpass the effects of this one. The quality of science in Storm Cell makes Twister look like a documentary. Among other things, the tornadoes were spinning the wrong way, the titular "storm cell" looked more like a hurricane spinning the wrong way(except for one scene), and weather maps that didn't make any sense. Somewhere a meteorologist is crying. Strangely, the way people took cover was fairly accurate which leads me to suspect that the research for this movie did not go any further than a quick google search of tornado safety. It is a bad movie in every area. The plot is fragmented into unrelated pieces, the acting and effects are cheap and cheesy, and the science is an unfunny joke.

13-year-old April and 8-year-old Sean lose their parents in an Oklahoma tornado. At least the parents were trying to save someone's life.Thirty years later, April is a published author and a professor at River Point University, supposedly in Oklahoma, since her daughter Dana is in high school in Wyattsville, Oklahoma. She is known as "Tornado Lady" because she is a storm chaser, and she lectures on how global warming has made the planet's weather more violent.April takes Lew, a student newspaper reporter, out on one of her adventures. Little does she know that this one will involve her daughter Dana, who is rehearsing "Romeo and Juliet" at her high school.What happens when April and Dana meet is truly shocking.Sean is the sheriff of Shiloh Hills, outside Seattle. His wife Molly is pregnant, and she invites April and Dana to visit. Dana is basically a good kid, but she has an attitude and doesn't want to go. April persuades Dana to come along by pointing out that Garfield College has a great drama program and Dana might want to go there.The last thing Dana wants is for this to be yet another of her mother's adventures. But it just so happens that the Seattle area is about to get hit with the worst storm systems in its history. Unbelievable hail, tornadoes like the area has never seen. Oh, by the way, April went to college with Travis, a TV meteorologist in Seattle.Dana is constantly arguing with her mom, but she does have some fun, as it turns out. While in Washington she meets Ryan, the bad-boy son of a local developer who is being harassed because he doesn't build houses up to code. (The father is being harassed for his business practices; the son for his overall behavior.)Sean and April don't get along, because April doesn't think Sean is grieving enough for the parents they lost thirty years ago, and because Sean left Oklahoma. He is not affected in the least when he sees a mother of a young boy who has died--at least not enough for her.There is occasional excitement, especially toward the end, and it's not all because of the tornadoes. Even at the end, though, the dialogue leaves something to be desired.Elyse Levesque is beautiful and has her moments (no, playing Juliet is not one of them), but I don't think anyone will win awards for this movie. Mimi Rogers is pretty for her age.The visual effects are impressive for about five seconds, and for a little longer in the final scenes. I guess the budget was limited.But for scientific accuracy this movie falls short. Is a storm system that produces tornadoes supposed to resembled a hurricane in satellite photos? Not unless it was a hurricane to begin with. This one seems to have come in from Canada, and even if it formed over water, hurricanes don't form off Seattle. Yes, I know, global warming. Weather is supposed to have gone crazy.Also, Travis' weather maps don't make sense. I've been looking at how warm fronts and cold fronts are supposed to be drawn. If the fronts are depicted accurately, this is wacky weather. Besides, I thought cold fronts were supposed to be blue and warm fronts red, not the other say round. But then these fronts aren't behaving how they're supposed to.Is it worth seeing? Well, I had a good enough time.

Actually, I found the movie quite interesting. It was exciting, thrilling and while not quite factual, it kept my attention. Sure it was not real, no sci-fi movies are and their not meant to be. The story is about an adult women who experienced a life changing tragedy as a very young girl that killed both her parents and now she feel compelled to try and help others who could be caught in a life changing event in today's world. Forecasters today are like fortune tellers. Always predicting some type of weather that will happen but never able to accurately predict where it will happen. They say there is a fifty percent chance of rain which means it may rain or it may not. And they forecast that it may rain in your area but what they don't tell you is how big of an area they are referring to. They really tell us a lot. This movie is full of advanced wizardry and special computer effects which provide the viewer with a more real life view of what forecasters wish technology would provide them instead of having to guess at raw data readings when predicting the weather. I lived in Florida for the past 19 years where forecasters claimed we should prepare for the worst during hurricane season. The retailers loved it as we would always run out and spend our money buying hurricane supplies only to have the storm go else where. Sorry people, but this is not a reality show nor is it supposed to accurate show what forecasters really do. Its science fiction drama meant to keep people interested in the fake movie plot and now that I've recorded it, I intend to keep it for future viewing. The water spout that formed on the lake which turned into a tornado was especially interesting, kind of reminders me of Andrew back in 92. Been there, done that.