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DEVIL WINDS is the latest in a string of TV disaster movies I've seen. This one's quite obviously a spin on TWISTER, except of course it's nowhere near as good as that (average in itself) production. It's a film packed with grotty soap opera and boring dialogue and not nearly enough disaster.

I knew this was going to be poor when I saw the attempted acting of the mother in the opening scene, which is laughable to say the least. It gets worse from there. The male lead is invariably wooden, the female lead an ageing has-been who was once on BAYWATCH, and the family drama type stuff is intensely grating.

Scenes involving actual tornadoes are limited to the beginning, middle and end. There's a funny scene of a twister chasing a jeep, and later on a bit where a twister destroys a building. With nobody inside it, who cares? The CGI effects are pitiful, and looked like something out of THE SIMS at one point.

No real reason to bother with this one, even genre aficionados will be sorely pressed to find something of merit.

Just Got Watching This and it sucked one of the worst movies ever made on top of that They Stole Clips From Twister

A tornado kills a man's wife. Not just any man. Pete Jensen, a meteorologist turned cop with the supernatural ability to experience flashbacks from an event he wasn't present at. Lucky for the producers of this cheapie his flashbacks are the exact same footage we saw earlier while he was in another part of the state.

Despite returning to the site of the disaster ten years later for his estranged daughter's college graduation, he promptly dumps his grumpy offspring for a standby seat in the disaster cabin of a hurricane hunter plane. Father of the year material then risks his life chasing tornadoes and doing pretty much anything other than spending time with his daughter. Along the way he befriends Nicole Eggert, who is well cast as the most cliche news reporter since Lois Lane. I won't spoil what happens next, but the news reporter is easy, there's an irresponsibly managed communicable disease lab in the path of a storm, and our hero saves the day impressing his daughter along the way.

This made for TV cheapie is fairly good given the obvious budgetary limitations. The actors do the best they can on claustrophobic sets and in front of a green screen of a tornado while the sky is blue overhead. Like everything else the story isn't half bad, despite having kids on a field trip while a hurricane is bearing down on them. Five stars all the way around.

The casting in this movie is really bad why are all the younger women so arrogant and such smart mouthed.

Put the men down any chance they get not good for film making .

Realize streaming is cheaper but audience deserve good quality for their money This male/female badgering is not accomplishing anything but losing viewers.

I love the graphics of disaster movies really good but please cast better actors and actresses.

This film begins with a storm chaser in Oklahoma by the name of "Peter Jensen" (Joe Lando) and his colleague "Robert Booker" (Pete Graham) actively monitoring a weather system which has the potential of developing into a tornado. The conditions eventually get to the point where Peter advises the local weather bureau to announce a tornado warning. Unfortunately, he miscalculates the exact location and even though a twister does indeed touch ground it's in the wrong vicinity-and his wife "Mary Jensen" (Kirsten Robek) is killed in the process. To that effect, even though he is not a fault, he takes it quite badly and moves out west to Oregon to start a new life. The scene essentially shifts to ten years later where he has come back to Oklahoma to see his daughter "Kara Jensen" (Erica Durance) when another weather system develops and he volunteers to help track it as well. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a rather tepid picture which didn't really impress me all that much. In particular, a couple of the subplots were totally irrelevant and to make matters even worse the CGI wasn't all that impressive either. In short, those looking for a film of this sort might want to check out "Twister" or possibly its low budget clone "Tornado!" as this one lacked the necessary intensity.