Into the Storm

Most inexplicable, yet potent, are the shots that look down on the devastation from on high, implicitly reducing the entire cast to extras in a movie directed by God.

Unfortunately, long before the storm has blown itself out, the plot has long since come apart.

What we've got here is somewhere between Twister and one of those storm-chaser reality shows, except Jan de Bont made Twister.

Stick with Twister.

"Hold on!", says everyone to everyone, which goes more or less without saying. "I've never seen anything like this!", they also repeat ad nauseam. You may be tempted to disagree.

When the badass cyclones muscle into town, ripping up schools, banks and airports, the film is fairly fun. Sadly, everything else about it is, well, a bit of a disaster.

At a brisk 89 minutes “Into the Storm” doesn’t exhaust its welcome. It aims for one rather uninspired target and for the most part it hits it.

The use of practical effects, not just CGI and green screen trickery, recalls old school disaster movies from the 70s ...

When the wind isn't tearing the town apart it's as if Quale doesn't know what to do with the characters or the story.

Features spurts of painfully juvenile dialogue, an abundance of pointless characters, and countless continuity discrepancies.