Too much of everything

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I will never again watch this thing. Currently it is on the SyFy channel with an hour left to go and I'm still trying to figure out how this thing even made t on air. Two storms are converging...big whoop Twister already did that and THAT movie was a heck of a lot better than this insanity. Who in the world says "Shot...with a gun!" What else would she be shot with? A pencil? And what in the world was little Miss Reporter thinking when she had to take the stairs up to her sister-in-law's apartment? Didn't they think a NORMAL person might think someone could be stuck in the elevator since the power was down? I'm not even going to comment on Diane West's character because I can't even think straight enough to make a comment.

Summary: A hodge podge of pseudo science, bad special effects and ill fitting stock footage doesn't make a good movie.Details: It stank. It really stank.I have nothing against Canadian made disaster movies set in the USA. Personally I'd like to see a Canadian disaster movie set in Canada some time, just to even the score. But if they are set in the USA they should look and sound like they are set in the USA. This had far worse American accents than usual. Jeff Sutton, who played Garth Benson the teen-age son of the diddling power company manager had such a STRONG Canadian accent that he couldn't keep in American for long enough to finish any of his dialog. I don't mean subtle points - I mean the stereotypical joke "ooot" for "out" sound.The stock clips used to make so much of the storm footage OBVIOUSLY weren't from near Chicago. The style of houses screamed deep South. The palm trees screamed Florida. It was comic.Many of the special effects looked like a computer game. To me the worst was the weather plane. It just looked really fake, like Microsoft Flight Simulator.A movie can get away with poor special effects and ill fitting stock footage if it has a good script and good actors. How many of us have seen wonderful classic movies that have poor staging by today's standards? The whole magic storm from Hades that was a mystic convergence of global warming just never made it. This one also fell flat on its rear end in the dialog department. It was both utterly serious deadpan and utterly unbelievable. It was emotionless. No highs, no lows. Add it horrid acting and you had a lead balloon of a movie.Save your time.

Mind numbing foolishness, but entertaining in its own zany way.For some reason in made-for-TV disaster flicks, the lead characters and their families all seem to have personal problems bigger than the natural disaster. Conveniently, during the crisis. Lots of problems. Usually dumb problems. It's not enough to show millions of people getting clobbered by hurricanes and tornadoes. No, families need to be in crisis too for some reason.Many such contrived subplots come your way in Category 6, ranging from infidelity to a pregnant woman being stranded on a stalled elevator. One character does all the following: learns of her dad's infidelity, involves herself with a goony looking boyfriend, is involved in two robberies, is stalked, gets locked in a building during a power outage, is held as a hostage, and even gets shot. Plus, she whines a lot.Schlock stock characters are in abundance: nervy TV news person, evil corporate jerk, crazed tornado chaser (Randy Quaid), etc. Quaid's over acting is a re-do of his ID4 character, only cranked up another ten notches. He yells constantly, gambles his neck for no reason, and generally looks like he could use a lobotomy. Along the way he endangers the lives of some stereotypical foreign tourists. They, like you, are completely confused at what they're seeing.When the film occasionally deals with the crisis, it becomes so weird that it's funny. CGI is a farce: people and objects seem to be two feet off the ground long before the funnel cloud is anywhere near them! Electric short circuit bolts go right through victims and come out the other side. Many things explode for no reason. There were probably more, but by this time I was laughing so hard I didn't notice.It's only fair to note that that the actors appear enthusiastic (not counting the teens) and they make the most of the script. The film ends up being watchable in a detached "ok it's nonsense, but it's fun nonsense" sort of way. I'll give it a 5, just for the laughs.

Average film. Very routine formula film about a disaster.There a few things going for it, and a few things against it.Against it are the settings. Too many city shots, with buildings, motor vehicles, people in suits and ties, all that which makes for dull spectacle. There are some very trite situations, the young lady not taken seriously by a trite bespectacled wimp, the fascination with computers, the power plays that bore most people, the predictable outcome of the storm chasing moron.For it, while the characters at first begin to sink into stereotypes, each one is brought out with at least one saving grace. Not sure if this saves the film, but it does show some semblance of style and intent to keep it from being too silly. We aren't left with too many predictable and trite results, and it still has entertainment value.