03/30/06 Tornado!

Tornado! (1996), directed by Noel Nosseck

watched w/ Leslie; DVD rental (Netflix) @ home

OK, disaster movies. Here's a subject we may not have tackled yet this year. No silly rabbit, not movies solely about natural weather phenomena that wreak havoc globally...but rather, cinematic garbage that infiltrates culture creating the same widespread collateral damage to all who come in contact with it's fury. This movie was god awful, and some would say that disasters are one way for a god to unleash its wrath upon humanity. Let's put it this way, the film was a horrible rip-off of another big budget atrocity of a film, "Twister" from the same year. If you remember, after "Twister" came out there was a gluttony of crappy tornado movies...and isn't that the most blatant form of rip-off? Good job guys, I don't think anybody bought it. Let's see...for a review...pathetic acting, cheesy special effects that would make Ed Wood proud, unrelated scenes and plot holes galore, and the worst robotic piece of weather technology/meterology ever concocted. Oh, I watched it only because B-movie legend Bruce Campbell was in it. I originally planned on writing this piece solely about the time myself, my girlfriend and best friends all met him at one of his movie premiers. Apparently I had some pent-up hostility about having wasted my time on this particular film of his...so there, I'll just name-drop at the end of the piece. Piece out.

1 out of 5 stars