La vallée des tempêtes

WOW!.. from the get go u will think.... "what the.." then... "get off n run stupid!..." then.. "just grab her little butt n run!!..." THEN......"why the hell am I still watching this?!.." The way the storm came over the trees WITHOUT displacing them in any kind of way is laughable! Maybe this is a comedy... Who knows.

I do know this movie is lame from the beginning. I'd be embarrassed to be associated with this movie. I assume this is a 'foot in the door' for some new young actors to get their face out there or for some desperate actor taking on whatever role they can to grab some money to make ends meet.. Cause DAMN!!! really???!!

XP

Slow plot with melodramatic off-on-again-maybe estranged couple get buzz of mutual affection after weathering a tornado. The storms were not convincing, and the story was shallow and took forever to move along. I was pleased with the actors and their performances but they didn't have a story to work. I felt like turning this off several times but was watching with a friend who says it was "better than what we were watching before" which was a bad documentary. I think it was supposed to be a twister suspense story but was instead a long winded tale about a vaguely relevant family's story of recovery of trauma from a tornado 25 years earlier. Good color. Poor story. I would not recommend it. You wait until the last minute to find out what disaster might bring, but I felt let down.

Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but not every movie has to have state of the art visual effects for me to enjoy it. So they don't destroy L.A., or the planet, but the characters are well drawn, good acting, and it is an enjoyable film. Want a gory disaster film? Watch something else. Want a nice movie? Watch this.

A few partial nods to twister with story elements. Very cheap and crappy effects twister scenes might account for 5 mins they seem to have spent more money on the command center tech than they did the CGI. Good looking cast decent story line (family drama). I only gave it a 4 for the drama this is not a twister film. You spend more time looking at people looking at monitors and the sky talking about the coming system.

As children "Liz McAdams" (Meredith Monroe) and "Ellie Wilson" (Pascale Hutton) are playing outside when a tornado appears. Racing back to their house Ellie watches as her mother is swept up into the cyclone and suffers from guilt and trauma from then on. Many years later Liz has become a meteorologist who has recently separated from her husband "Matt McAdams" (Cameron Bancroft) partly because of the traumatic experience she also lives with since that day. Anyway, as luck would have it, Matt has been working on a project to help predict bad weather systems and because of this he just happens to be in the same area as Liz when another extremely bad storm system appears with the capability of reproducing the same deadly results. Now rather than reveal any more of this film and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I would just like to say that this made-for-television picture uses the same standard recipe as several other movies of this particular genre. That said if anyone is expecting something different or more exciting than previous films of this type then they will probably end up being a bit disappointed. Additionally, there isn't much action and the graphics could have used some improvement as well. To make up for these weaknesses the plot relies upon inter-personal drama and in that regard it managed to maintain my interest for the most part. Of course, others may or may not agree with my assessment and that is perfectly okay. In any case, while it certainly wasn't a great film by any means, I didn't think it was necessarily that bad either and I have rated it accordingly. Average.