This movie doesn't know what it wants to be, and the result is an absolute mess. It ticks off all the tropes along the way, the uncaring director more interested in schmoozing politicians than in what is going on in front of him, the concerned researcher on the ground who can't get his boss to listen, and a plane load of people from the seasoned veteran flying the aircraft to the journalist who is on the flight for reasons and in the perfect place at the right(wrong) time. At the apex we have the controversial female storm chaser with a plane load of emotional baggage who is also perfectly placed for that essential I told you so. Having ticked off the checklist of stock cardboard characters, the action is dreadful, the dialogue veers wildly from scientific mumbo-jumbo to almost noir-like monologues from the main female character which serve to explain her. The info dump of her emotional issues is scattered through the film which only serves to add to the confused mess that the movie is. The side story of the journalist's daughter is another utterly predictable complication. It's a shame, this could have been so much more than a bland, by the numbers movie, stumbling incompetently in the footsteps of others.
Review of Storm Seekers
