Nuclear Hurricane

One cliché after another that fuels some awful acting. There is a lame attempt at a lesbian relationship, that would make any lesbian cringe. The programmer keeps trying to hit on the heroine, her partner, the sheriff. There is a hurricane and the probability of a nuclear plant meltdown, yet the 'maintenance man' is more concerned with eating and his lunch break - right up to the last five minutes of this disaster. A woman gives birth in a barn in the middle of a hurricane and immediately thereafter is able to run briskly up the road to a house as if she had just made toast where she, the sheriff, and the clueless programmer are met with, "oh a baby!" I won't waste the reader's time writing about the dreadful writing, acting, editing, production (de)-values in this waste of film. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!

The title makes this sound like one of those dodgy disaster flicks knocked out by The Asylum but I'm afraid to say that NUCLEAR HURRICANE is even worse: it's a film with two separate story lines, one involving a renegade computer at a nuclear plant and the other involving a hurricane, that have zero to do with each other despite the scriptwriter's attempts to stitch the two strands together.

This is badly written indeed, a film that jumps all over the place with characters and sequences and makes little sense as a whole. There are whole interludes which are just put there to try to drag the running time out to make this reach feature length, and of course that makes for a very boring film. At least it's adequately shot, but given Fred Olen Ray's copious genre experience I wouldn't expect otherwise.

What's notable here is that the script contains some truly abysmal humour, and the actors can't help but deliver it in a most stilted way. I even felt sorry for them on occasion. The hurricane stuff is so routine it's not even worth mentioning, but the 'evil' computer stuff is a little more fun, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY rip-off though it is. Jamie Luner and Jack Scalia are really slumming it here. One thing the other reviewers didn't mention is that the film features Gil Gerard and Erin Gray teaming up on-screen together after their roles in the fondly-remembered BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY, although both have aged so much that you could be forgiven for not recognising them.

I agree with all the reviews and I don't usually post here but one review mentions the stupid attempt at a lesbian relationship between the programmer and the sheriff. If they had been paying attention in the beginning they would've known that the two women were sisters. Other than that the reviews are pretty accurate. Cliche divorced couple, coworkers vying for the same job, doltish custodian and of course corporate honchos who only care about the bottom line. Certainly nothing original. The computer was actually the most interesting character and I almost found myself rooting for her. I think she was the spawn of HAL.

I found this to be a really boring disaster movie that I watched. The idea on combining a nuclear meltdown and hurricane isn't a bad idea and could show how much in danger the characters are in. But the results are pretty bad. The whole nuclear meltdown is really boring since its more of a waiting game with two characters trying to deal with this AI while waiting for someone. The AI is the worst part about the movie since it won't shut up and keep repeating lines throughout. And isn't that smart since it the one who almost cause the disaster. The hurricane part feel like a afterthought since it not brought up that much and there is no danger from it. Even they added in things that has no purpose like the pregnant woman. Also, the minor plotline with that business guy is completely forgotten near the end of the movie. The characters are mostly bland and doesn't have anything interesting about them. And the acting itself feel stiff and some feel like it dub in. The ending ends abruptly and is disappointing.

Nuclear Hurricane is best forgotten and should not be watched.

What we have here is a late-night monster movie in which the monster is an artificially intelligent computer, which controls all functions at a nuclear power plant and which, of course, goes haywire, initiating a process that could lead to a meltdown while viewing power-plant personnel both as entities it must protect and as viruses infecting the system. Technicians frantically scramble to hack through the computer's digital defenses, but the hurricane that rages outside delays desperately needed expertise.

Not a bad plot, but the execution is just silly. Much of the dialog sounds improvised, and most of the scenes appear to have been filmed on the first take. Nevertheless, if you have nothing better to do, grab some popcorn and maybe an adult beverage, sit back, and get ready to smile!