Jet Stream

Sadly, an example of what SyFy still does today.

Good plot concept, even unique. What a chance to do something really great! Decent actors in front of the camera, and the guys behind the cameras obviously know what they are doing.

Yet the plot is so poorly implemented as to be beyond belief. Did no on review the script before taking on the movie? Did no one think to send it back for a revision or 12?

What's more, and this is CLASSIC SyFy, the stages are absolute junk. 'Oh wow, the actor is using one thing that looks so futuristic and space age' ... yet the rest of the staging and scenery is complete sparse garbage. And you thought that was OK?

I understand that this as much driven by the script writers (calling them that is being overly kind) with their staging and SyFy management, that can't get out of their way in making a mess of everything good they touch.

A fundamental problem with making a film that will appeal to everyone is the danger that it will appeal to absolutely no one . This low budget production entitled JET STREAM and filmed in Bulgaria is a case in point . It tries to mesh in several genres such as disaster epic , conspiracy thriller , satire on the media and a bit of romance . It does nothing well and quickly becomes tiresome

JET STREAM sets out its stall how bad it is going to be right from the opening scene where an American airforce Major is in contact with an US military plane conducting an experiment . What will strike you about this airforce Major isthree things

1 ) He is somewhat overweight

2 ) He doesn't have a US military regulation hairstyle

3 ) He obviously hasn't shaved for several days

When a director gets little things like this wrong in the opening scene what hope for the rest of the film ? No hope at all as the film lurches from one underdeveloped theme and scene to another . You might have some fun pointing out the ridiculous scientific mistakes in this film but that's probably the only fun you'll get from JET STREAM

Even by the extremely low standards of SyFy Channel disaster movies, JET STREAM is a particularly poor movie, excruciating in fact. It's the usual CGI-fuelled disaster nonsense, yes, but the problem here is that the lead is this ultra-annoying TV weatherman who ends up advising scientists and military personnel who can't work stuff out for themselves.

The weatherman is introduced in the most excruciating 'comedy' scene ever via a series of bloopers at his workplace. I'm not sure what's worse, the cringe-worthy acting or the scriptwriter's ill-advised attempts at 'humour'. Needless to say that none of this is funny, even remotely funny, while the disaster shenanigans are low rent and annoying. The SyFy Channel will have to do very badly indeed to make a worse film than this one.

It's movies like Jet Stream that make you wonder how Syfy manages to spend hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of dollars on each of their movies, and still get phenomenally bad results.

Jet Stream suffers from very bad writing, leading to cringe-worthy dialog in a lot of the film. For some reason there's quite a lot of painfully bad jokes too, and it seems they couldn't have been times worse. Add on to that the wooden acting by an extensive part of the cast.

The CGI is just not convincing at all, everything looks very poorly and amateurishly done. The sequences that are meant to thrill the audience just look ridiculous, laughably bad at times. I also counted a couple of completely unnecessary close-ups.

This is one of the many movies in which Syfy tried to disguise Eastern Europe like the USA, and here they did pretty much the worst job of all their movies I've seen so far. Not to mention that there are countless shots in this, which Syfy has recycled and used for multiple movies. Really, the only positive thing there is to say is that this movie may make you laugh at how bad it is.

On Sunday nights, we like to watch bad disaster movies. Ice storms, volcanoes under major cities, tidal waves taking out Wasington D C. We are there! This was about average for what it was. Would I watch it again? No! But it was a fun way to waste an hour and a half on Sunday evening. The special effects and cgi were not bad. Most of the cast was irritating. The worst were the girlfriend Barbie in a suit and the major. My husband was in the air force and this guy was the worst representative of the military I think I've seen on film. That hair and facial shrub would have never even begin to cut it. The filmmakers should have tried a bit harder there. If you are a fan of this kind of film you could find way better but I'm sure there are worse as well.