Cyclone

Cyclone is a survival film directed by Late René Cardona Jr.. The film stars Late Arthur Kennedy, Carroll Baker, Late Lionel Stander, Andrés García, Late Mario Almada, Olga Karlatos and Late Edith González.

After a surprise cyclone hits the area, tourists become stranded on a boat in the sea, and they have to do anything in order to survive. To make matters even worse, they're joined by the survivors of a plane crash and a sinking boat.

These types of film neither excites nor disappoints. The film sounded like a b grade soft porn flick but on the contrary the film has a very limited to minimalistic of nudity. While the film has some decent scenes shot of the sea but the slow screenplay and the length of the film makes it look clumsy.

The best part of the film (worse for the viewers who were expecting some violence or gore) is that the film is very little explicit considering that the film has some shark attacks and cannibalism and also it didn't look effective also you can't connect yourself with the plight of the survivors.

Acting in the film is average and the dialogues of the film makes the film a laughing stock. The screenplay is dull and makes the film boring. The climax of the film is also unnecessarily stretched and makes it weary.

Overall an below par film which could've been good.

Good effect for an old movie, good cast. Bad timing 5 star for the effort and remember Mexican movie

Well, fully fallen on the snout: I thought there was a disaster here with pretty shark attacks (yes, yes, that sounds morbid - and I mean it that way!). Unfortunately, there is very, very little predator action, but really just a bunch of people bumming around on various boats. The cast of "Tornado" is quite good - among others the Mexican acting legend Hugo Stiglitz takes part -, but there is really little action. In short: lame. There were and are dozens of better films like this.

Now this one had some damn good ideas. A cyclone reeks havoc, and we follow the struggle for survival of not one, but three groups of people (initially on a plane, a tourist boat and a fishing boat), all afloat in the vast ocean waters. But somehow director René Cardona Jr manages to mess up everything he possibly can and turns it into a pretty damn bad movie. The acting is downright hilarious. And some people speaking with their mouths closed due to bad dubbing, does not help things either. But it does make it funnier. The dialogues are close to being the most stupid, idiotic and plain ridiculous things I've ever heard in a movie. Yes, there's a bit of cannibalism. Yes there's a couple of shark attacks. But nothing too explicit. And that's okay, really. Doesn't have to be. When the rest of the movie's good, at least. But it's not. It's bland and uninspired with just plain retarded characters. Too many of them, even. And learning that there's even a version of this film running no less than 118 minutes, I wonder now how redundant a movie can actually get.

Certainly an intense and at times campy little cult gem from Rene Cardon Jr. I'm a fan of the disaster film. Coming into this ,I wasn't quite prepared for some of what I saw. It has an interesting cast of European cult films, including Olga Karlatos from ZOMBIE. Just think of your standard disaster film with some shocking exploitation scenes. A friend told me after viewing that the filmmakers used real corpses to feed the sharks! Don't know if those folks donated there bodies to science, but even so its an entertaining obscurity. Warning to anyone with a weak stomach as this is quite out there in some scenes,in the gross-out department. As well as anybody who might own a poodle, you might like to turn away in 1 scene. All that said, CYCLONE, is much better than Cardonas other more known disaster film, SURVIVE.