 | Watch Into the Storm (2014) online Run time: 89 min Rating: 6.3 Genres: Action | Thriller Stars: Richard Armitage, Sarah Wayne Callies, Matt Walsh |
| Storyline In the span of a single day, the town of Silverton is ravaged by an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes. The entire town is at the mercy of the erratic and deadly cyclones, even as storm trackers predict the worst is yet to come. Most people seek shelter, while others run towards the vortex, testing how far a storm chaser will go for that once-in-a-lifetime shot. Written by New Line Cinema | |
| Plot Keywords: storm, helmet camera, four wheeler, van, boss | |
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| Box Office Budget: $50,000,000 (estimated) Opening Weekend: $17,346,427 (USA) (8 August 2014) Gross: $38,304,693 (USA) (22 August 2014) | |
I love Twister and disaster movies in general. Even the bad ones I can give a pass because I just really like Mother Nature giving mankind a whooping. This film had me excited because its another tornado movie on the big screen that didn't involve The Asylum or SyFy Channel and it has Thorin, how could it be bad? The answer is pretty bad which disappoints me a lot.
ReplyDeleteGood: The tornado scenes were pretty cool. The effects were impressive and the destruction on display was well done. The climax with the giant tornado was exciting featuring a scene that is both ridiculous and awesome. I also want to give Matt Walsh props for giving the best performance and having the best character.
Bad: Even for a disaster movie, it was really weak. I don't look for deep storytelling or even great characters, but all the characters here are really one note or straight up clichés. No one is really interested and suck the fun out of the movie when the tornadoes are out of the picture. The comedy fell flat and it all just felt like a bad SyFy disaster movie with a bigger budget.
Overall, I wanted to like this, but aside from some fun tornado scenes, it was very generic and not that fun.
I caught an advance screening and found it a heck of a ride and thrilling fun to watch. I thought it really delivered the experience of being close up and inside the most power weather on the planet, and left me with images that I continue to chew over with awe. For a "disaster movie" it felt extremely realistic, and when you see news reports on TV or YouTube you realize this stuff happens again and again, usually in small towns just like the one in the movie, so it's completely real and they didn't really make any of this stuff up. And I really felt for the characters who, just like real people caught by these events, don't want to be in a disaster movie, they just want to get out of there alive. It got pretty emotional by the end.
ReplyDeleteI don't get all the negative reviews I've been reading, I thought it was really good and delivered a great night out. What do people want, stupid Sharknado? Whatever, I had a good time watching it. And I'm glad I caught it on a big screen instead of renting it later. Seeing it big and overwhelming is the way to go!
Into the Storm was not a movie I had a lot of expectations for. I just wanted to have fun seeing huge tornadoes destroying everything in their path. And that's what I got for the mast part in this movie. The first 15 minutes of this movie was so bad, the dialogue was atrocious, the characters were annoying and the writing was completely abysmal. But as the movie starts to show more of the tornadoes, it got really fun really quick. the movie got so much better.
ReplyDeleteOne of the best aspects of this movie is how close you really get into the tornadoes. You go inside it and it looks frightening and beautiful at the same time. The visuals look amazing when you're in the movie theater. This is definitely a movie that should be seen in your nearest theater, because it was such an experience seeing the tornadoes, hearing the train-like noise when a tornadoes comes barreling towards the cities and cars. It's just so awesome.
One of the weakest aspects of this movie are the characters, we just don't care what happens to them in the movie. But the tornadoes are terrific and they keep coming on at you every twenty minutes or so for two hours. Now this can be a little tiresome, but "Into the Storm" does stop itself just in time before it completely overstays its welcome.
In the end, it's not a very good movie by any stretch of the imagination. Again, this is the film that one will either like as a guilty pleasure, like me, or you won't care for it at all. And even if you do like the movie, there is still one big lapse in the whole thing that you realize at the end. If tornadoes really did show up as often as they do in the movie in the same general area, there would be nothing left standing in the Midwest anymore. It would all be leveled.