Seattle Superstorm (TV 2012)

NASA scientist Tom Reynolds thought everything would be fine when he moved to Seattle to be with his fiancé, Navy Lieutenant Emma Peterson. But when his gearhead son Wyatt can't stop ... See full summary »

Director:

Jason Bourque

Writers:

David Ray, Jeff Renfroe

Stars:

Esai Morales, Ona Grauer, Jared Abrahamson

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Esai Morales	...	Tom
Ona Grauer	...	Lt. Cmdr. Emma Peterson
Jared Abrahamson	...	Wyatt
MacKenzie Porter	...	Chloe Peterson
Martin Cummins	...	Jacob Stinson
Michelle Harrison	...	Dr. Carolyn Gates
Jay Brazeau	...	Dimitri Kandinsky
Thomas Bradshaw	...	Soldier #1
Jon Johnson	...	Soldier #2
Owen Kwong	...	Paramedic
Brenda Crichlow	...	Reporter
Jim Sced	...	Merchant
Matty Finochio	...	Ben Jefroe
Dominika Juillet	...	Sasha
Jesse Moss	...	Hudson

Storyline

NASA scientist Tom Reynolds thought everything would be fine when he moved to Seattle to be with his fiancé, Navy Lieutenant Emma Peterson. But when his gearhead son Wyatt can't stop fighting with her green-minded daughter Chloe, they realize that this new family may not make it. And things aren't just stormy on the home front; when an unidentified object is shot down by the military and crashes into Puget Sound, it sets off a series of strange weather phenomena: earthquakes, tornados, lightning storms... and they're spreading. Now, this new family must find a way to work together to save the city, and each other, before it's too late.

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Plot Keywords:

scientist | earthquake | lightning | storm | tornado | 

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Genres:

Action | Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

31 March 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

Burzliwe Seattle

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The name of the character Ben Jefroe is a variant of the name of writer Jeff Renfroe.

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Goofs

Tom discovers that breathing on the compound causes it to grow because of moisture in an exhalation. When Tom demonstrates to the others (who are all standing close and breathing) how the compound acts on water, he does so using an open container. The compound should have affected the atmosphere in the room.

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Quotes

Emma: I have a message from the President: The difference between success and failure is thinking the impossible is possible.

User Reviews

Like watching a train wreck...

As I've said many times before, I have made no secret of disliking a vast majority of SyFy's output. A couple are tolerable without ever being great, but a lot of them are either lame or bottom-of-the-barrel. As bad as they are, there's something about their awfulness that not only is compulsive but at times can amuse me. From reading the premise, which is the sort of nothing-new, silly sort of premise, I wasn't expecting much, but Seattle Superstorm actually was worse than I expected. It, even for a low budget TV movie, is a poorly made movie, with editing so slapdash it made my head hurt and special effects that are among the most cheap-looking and cheesily used of any effects in a SyFy movie since Titanic II. The dialogue is incredibly insipid, especially about when they are talking about who is going into the tank to release the water, and the story is dull and predictable with the positioning of the manual valve in a position where anybody about to open it would die was beyond stupid. I got a good laugh with the lightning obliteration scene, but that was it. The characters are among SyFy's most irritating and stereotypical, and the acting is very poor, Esai Morales is okay, but everybody else is just bad especially the 16 year old girl who not just once but twice comes up with a save the world solution and the grandfather who acts like he is in a different film altogether.

All in all, SyFy have done worse than Seattle Superstorm, but it is still a train wreck. 1/10 Bethany Cox