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Sure, I enjoy watch natural catastrophe movies, even though the vast majority of them are questionable. But I hadn't seen the 2007 movie "Anna's Storm" (aka "Hell's Rain") before now in 2020, so of course I sat down to watch it - even though the title was a rather lousy one.

Granted, I didn't have much of any expectations to the movie. Which was good, because writers Steven B. Frank and Julie Ferber Frank weren't exactly coming up with anything groundbreaking to the genre. Nor were director Kristoffer Tabori making anything outstanding from whatever material was written.

The movie felt more like a mixture of small town politics mixed with dysfunctional family bonds, and spiced off with some natural disaster. In my opinion, the movie focused way too little on the natural disaster, and it didn't really play all that much of a focal point of the movie.

Was it predictable? You betcha! Especially the ending, it was just atrocious, and it brought the movie down one rating for me. I would have rated it a four out of ten stars, but ended up on a three star rating.

The acting in the movie was adequate for the most parts, but I was having difficulties with the lead actress Sheree J. Wilson, as she just was unable to put on a believable performance throughout the entire movie.

If you enjoy a natural disaster movie that involves meteors or meteorites, then there are far better ones readily available and of much older date even. This movie was just not outstanding.

I started laughing after I have read the short summary of this movie in our TV Guide. If a meteor shower comes from one direction and a few of the meteors have hit a small town, tell me: how supposable is it that other parts of this meteor shower will hit the same town? Don't know? You would rather win the lottery 52 times in a year than this would happen! Planet Earth is moving through space with almost 30km/sec. This means: only one minute later the planet and also the town Cottonwood have moved 900km through Space, one hour later it will be 21600km. The only reason why a meteor shower could hit the same town twice would be: this meteor shower might be obsessed "I have to destroy Cottonwood. I have to follow planet earth!" OK, not every movie I like to watch has to be physically correct. I also sometimes switch off my brain and have some fun in front of the TV. But I don't want to see a movie, when reading the short summary tells me, that the screenwriter did not turn on his brain before writing.

This comment may contain some grammar mistakes, because English isn't my first language.

Gerhard

I dont know why this has an over 4 star review, it should be a 1. This is a terrible and boring as eff movie with the worst effects. The story and 'Disaster' is ungodly slow. I watched it on prime because it was rated highly and shouldnt have been. Geostorm has more going on it and that is an awful movie as well. But you know, just what I love to see: a mom fighting meteors! I did dip out of the movie before the end. I couldnt stand to watch it anymore. Also these review requiring this many characters really skew the rating system. Its probably while this pile of hot garbage got such a high review score. Only people willing to write an essay are going to be the ones that actually liked it versus the ones that hated it and dont want to warn anyone else.

Having come from a small town, and grown up with the "small town values" others here seem to want to denigrate, this movie struck a.positive chord with me. Whether or not the plot was completely unique or completely unpredictable (it wasn't), I felt it was a compelling story about people, not meteors, as viewers might easily comprehend from the title. The acting was very good, and I felt like the characters were three dimensional and believable. It's easy to look at every movie with a jaded eye, but I prefer in this case to look for the good in the story. "Anna's Storm" reinforces values lots of kind-hearted people still embrace. No, it's not a big budget blockbuster, there are some continuity (and other) problems, and the music soundtrack is just a guy playing three-note-chords on a synthesizer, but the overall effect of the movie struck a positive chord for me.

While not a bad disaster movie, this one isn't that memorable or enjoyable. It seems like these type of disaster movies like to use grieving of a deceased family member onto it itself. Which isn't a bad idea, but here they don't developed into it and the parts where the main character see her deceased son is barely use. It easily predictable with on who going to survive and the outcome of it. Also, the whole missing daughter plotline isn't that interesting because it feels like a afterthought and the results happen pretty quickly. The movie does try to do drama in it, but its your usual stuff you see in any movies out there. And it ends in a anticlimactic way.

I found the disaster scenes to be decent with a couple of good explosion in it and shows the damage it cause, but with limited budget to it.

Overall, it's a pretty forgettable movie.