Into the Storm (2014)
Directed by Steven Quale
As a new day begins in the town of Silverton, its residents have little reason to believe it will be anything other than ordinary. Mother Nature, however has other plans. In the span of just a few hours, an unprecedented onslaught of powerful tornadoes ravages Silverton. Storm trackers predict that the worst is still to come, as terrified residents seek shelter, and professional storm-chasers run toward the danger, hoping to study the phenomenon close up and get a once-in-a-lifetime shot.
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It’s like Roland Emmerich made a preposterous two-and-a-half-hour climate-change disaster flick — *cough* 2012 *cough* The Day After Tomorrow *cough* — and then someone went in and cut out most of the cheesy melodrama: the subsumed personal issues that come to the fore in the face of certain death, the contrived heat-of-the-moment romances, the triumph-of-the-human-spirit moments when the music swells and the tears are jerked.
Whereas disaster epics like The Towering Inferno or even (god help us) The Day After Tomorrow took sick pleasure in establishing clichéd but likable characters that their environment could entertainingly murder – and then went to the trouble of actually filming it so we could tell what was going on – the dirty documentary style of Into the Storm only calls attention to how fake its characters and situations really are.
Unlike worst case disaster films like “2012” and “The Day After Tomorrow,” tornadoes and hurricanes are a bit too common these days.
The story — if it can be called that — seems to have taken its chief inspiration from the Spielberg War of the Worlds (2005).
It’s like Roland Emmerich made a preposterous two-and-a-half-hour climate-change disaster flick — *cough* 2012 *cough* The Day After Tomorrow *cough* — and then someone went in and cut out most of the cheesy melodrama: the subsumed personal issues that come to the fore in the face of certain death, the contrived heat-of-the-moment romances, the triumph-of-the-human-spirit moments when the music swells and the tears are jerked.
Sometimes it’s only slightly less dumb than “2012.”
Unlike worst case disaster films like “2012” and “The Day After Tomorrow,” tornadoes and hurricanes are a bit too common these days.