Storm Cell (2008 TV Movie)
4/10
Don't expect scientific accuracy or high quality in this tornado flick
12 May 2017
Warning: Spoilers
30 years after April's parents death due to a tornado she is a author and a professor at River Point University. She is known as "Tornado Lady" because she is a storm chaser and she lectures on how global warming has made the planet's weather more violent. Really? Couldn't the producers think of something more interesting than global warming that is causing more severe weather? They could have used HAARP as the blame, that would have made the movie a little more interesting.

The movie pretty much consists of drama between April and her daughter over a boyfriend along with tornado chaos here and there, but those doesn't stop the film from being dull.

There is occasional excitement, but it's all because of the tornadoes. There's one part where there's a waterspout which reminded me of Twister, whether it was meant to be an homage or not it was a nice change.

The visual effects are less than impressive, but I was expecting that since it's a low budget film. I thought there was supposed to be a tornado in a big city because of the DVD cover art, however that never happened.

In regards to scientific accuracy this movie trembles. For example, the satellite photos of the storm cell that produces tornadoes resembles a hurricane, the only way that is possible is if the cell was a hurricane to start with which it wasn't. Once again there are roaring tornadoes, I've noticed this low budget tornado film cliché with Nature Unleashed: Tornado and Mega Cyclone, it unnecessary.

The movie comes off as nothing more than cheap popcorn entertainment.
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