Fire Twister

Oh dear what an awful movie, terrible acting and graphics and so far fetched. Do not waste your time watching this film!

Completely phone and visual effects are stupid, one fire truck and a hose would have put that twister out.

First off, I normally don't post reviews, but this film compelled me to.

It's a Saturday morning, and I ended up watching this TV movie. Please save your self 90 mins (because you'll never get them back) and don't watch this. From the poor CGI, cardboard acting and terrible story line this film watches like a turd covered in puke, gently heated would smell like...absolutely terrible!

The flaming twister is some shots is no wider than a street so all it needs is a hose down from a fire engine and it would be out....but noooooo, not in this film.

Right, well I had never heard bout this 2015 movie titled "Fire Twister", and truth be told, as I sat down to watch it here in 2024, I didn't harbor a single expectation. Why? Well, the title alone was just scream low budget garbage. But still, with it being a movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I opted to give writer Larry Bain and director George Erschbamer the benefit of the doubt.

The storyline was laughable, but you know that from the title alone. So you're not in for an evening of Shakespearian cinema here. Not that I was expecting that. Duh. There are just so many things wrong and implausible about the storyline, but the first thing that comes to mind is how would the fire tornado sustain its roaring flames as it swept across the land? And the fact that a tornado forms in weather conditions with clear skies and no winds moving (just look at the trees) it just downright phenomenal. Great writing right there.

So an exploding building caused a tornado of pure fire to take shape and come into existence? Right. How very believable.

The effects in "Fire Twister" were fairly dubious.

"Fire Twister" was, not surprisingly, a rather terrible movie. But truth be told, isn't there something oddly appealing about these terrible natural disaster movies that are found in an abundance out there?

My rating of director George Erschbamer's 2015 movie lands on a three out of ten stars.

I came across this Casper van Dien motion picture at Wal-Mart with the intent to find a really crappy disaster to watch & it pretty much was what I expected it to be. As a fan of "Mystery Science Theater 3000," this was pretty much not unlike the cinema the show has screened, & I'm pretty sure the observatory was also the same one in the comedy's "Teen-Age Crime Wave" episode. Van Dien was just one of two actors I recognized; the man playing the corrupt executive of whoever made the super-fuel or something was Joe Regalbuto, & has seriously aged since doing "Murphy Brown" 2 decades since. The SFX made me laugh each time I saw it; the good guys basically unleash what really should be just a mere blaze but turns out to be a 21st century version of the spinning inferno from "The Ten Commandments" that just moves about wreaking fiery havoc on Los Angeles. I was hoping the DVD had Spanish subtitles as I prefer not following the story listening to the dialogue to a movie I superficially watch. Nope, the DVD only had a trailer & I watched it on muting but I didn't miss much. Again, it's a ragtag bunch of misfits battling a monster fire & the villains who made it led by Van Dien, whose hair still looks great amidst hot temperatures. That's probably the advantage of the low humidity in California; no blow- dryer needed. Also the violence is surprisingly limited as nobody's flailing about in flames. I guess w/ this low-budget film they not only couldn't afford makeup & prosthetics to depict badly burned victims but couldn't even get a stuntman to cover himself in flammable jelly. In conclusion, "Fire Twister" is a typical DVD-only disaster film w/ an unfamiliar cast & a very familiar story-line per disaster films.