Nature Unleashed: Tornado

Nature Unleashed is a franchise of apparently "Alternative" disaster films and thus far this is only my second one. Prior to this I had the *Ahem* honor of watching Nature Unleashed: Volcano which was beyond dire.

Nature Unleashed: Tornado is actually worse and that I didn't expect.

With a baffling plot, awful sfx, a lifeless story and a cast who look like they simply didn't want to be there this is a film with near no redeeming features.

It hurts me deep to realise I have two more of these to watch, they can't get worse though. Right?!

The Good:

Erm.....

The Bad:

SFX are laughable

Performances are wooden as hell

Incomprehensible plot

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

So bad the lead actress quit acting immediatly after

The movie opens with a stupid guy chaining himself to a not-so-sturdy backyard appliance so he can make a home-movie doco of a CGI tornado roaring by without getting blown away himself. The winds are clearly blowing his hair *sideways*, yet he's magically getting pulled straight *upwards* (clue numero uno that this movie is gonna suck bigtime ... as if it being a "SciFi original" Saturday Nite feature wasn't a big enough tip-off). Suddenly, a shot rang out. The wife screamed. The family dog peed on the rug. And Mr. Tornado Paparazzo gets his chain yanked and gets sucked into the whirling vortex of suckiness that is this movie.

Next, we cut to a scene in which his now grown-up son is himself a professional photog, covering some completely-out-of-left-field story about Gypsies (whoops, sorry, the PC term is "The Roma") being victims of discrimination in ... New Jersey. Thus completely sending the What-the-F***-o-Meter off the scale. And unbelievable as it might seem, the movie (and I use the term very, very loosely) manages to go downhill from there.

Perhaps the only remotely interesting thing about this bizarre mishmash of the meteorological and Roma-nesque is that it stars Swiss hunk-o-cheese Daniel Bernhardt, who played Agent Johnson in The Matrix Reloaded (2003), but who is much better known to Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans for his brilliant portrayal of The Runaway karate-foo guy in Future War. ("Well, it's not really the Future and we didn't have the budget to do a War, but we did rent a whole bunch of these empty cardboard boxes for Dan to get thrown through during the fight scenes...") Wow - if I could give this one negative stars (Note to IMDb - we need black holes!) I would. About the only not-explicitly-bad thing I can say about this one is: it's a worthy sequel to "Fire: Nature Unleashed (2004)." (Well, it's not really worthy, and it's not really a sequel, but the titles *are* similar.)

This film was terrible. I almost couldn't believe that Sci Fi was actually airing this garbage. The plot/storyline is bad, the acting is pretty bad, and the special effects (the tornadoes, clouds, etc.) are extremely bad and look very fake. I personally think that I could've done better, more realistic-looking special effects than the people that made this movie. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING??????!!!!!! The opening scene is actually the best part of the whole movie, and that is not saying very much. It's still bad. I thought that the rest of the movie couldn't possibly be any worse; IT WAS!!! (i.e. It started off bad and went downhill from there.) Don't even waste your time watching this movie. Pass it up.

I also want to say that the other movies in the "Nature Unleashed" series are also pretty bad. Pass them up, too.

My expectations were pretty low already, but I was expecting it to have some essence of fun. Nature Unleashed: Tornado doesn't even have that. There is nothing good about the movie at all, so much so that you get no novelty value whatsoever, only hair-ripping-worthy frustration. Where to begin? Well, Nature Unleashed: Tornado is incredibly cheap to look at for starters with hackneyed editing, which was a big part of why the dream sequence was as disastrous as it was, and some of the worst CGI effects I've ever seen. The music is generic, nothing's memorable and it's never exciting in tempo. The script is both cheesy and aimless, the complete opposite of what a good script should be and the characters are unlikeably clichéd with the gypsies very negatively exploited. The acting is terrible with nobody standing out or giving a good performance. But the worst asset has to be the story, it is so dull and incomprehensible that you actually wonder if there's a story at all, and there are no suspense, tension or thrills whatsoever. Overall, an embarrassing film, even for low-budget, with no redeeming qualities. 0/10 Bethany Cox

Why did I think of recording this program on my DVR? I just stopped and erased the recording. It was just that bad! Why would any station run this trash. Furthermore, why would any sponsor time to run this? I will not go through everything that's wrong with it. The acting is trite, or should I say there is no acting. The cast just delivers lines to the camera. The effects you just sit there and laugh at them. I'm sort of in the biz and I think I could do the effects better. Well, I'm not wasting my time watching it. It's really that bad and the poor sponsors are just throwing their money away. I'm wondering if "Atomic Twister" and the other "Twister" movies was made by the same people? Trash this one.