Tornado visuals impress, but the story and characters barely register.
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Critic consensus
Critical reception for Into the Storm leans mixed-to-negative, with most reviewers acknowledging the film's visual spectacle while finding little else to recommend. The disaster sequences, particularly the tornado imagery and sound design, drew the most consistent praise across reviews. However, critics were nearly uniform in faulting the thin narrative and underdeveloped characters, with several explicitly advising audiences to disregard the story and focus solely on the effects. The overall consensus positions the film as a visually competent but hollow genre exercise suited mainly to fans of disaster films.
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Director Steven Quale seems to have not taken this subject seriously as the frivolous last scene mars the impact reminding you that there is no story, but what you are experiencing is just a fictional masterpiece. The film definitely merits a viewing.
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A film with potential, not all of which is fulfilled...the film for everyone who enjoys end-of-the-world movies. The visuals are noteworthy, albeit criminally underused. Additionally, Into the Storm tries to do something unconventional with a tried-and-tested premise and succeeds to an extent.
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Watch the movie only if you are a fan of meaningless disaster flicks. We have another suggestion: go easy on the soft drinks with this one. Though the movie is just 90 minutes long, but all the rain and water will definitely not help. Better safe than sorry, no?
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Barns and buildings, trucks, buses, cars (no cow this time) are sucked into the feverishly spinning cyclone's mouth till the screen transforms into a kinetic explosion of environmental fury. Some of these frantic images coupled with exceptional detail to sound, especially the waltz of the planes and the blazing tornado are truly spectacular and salvage Into The Storm from being a complete (since we're on the subject) disaster.
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If you venture into this film, enjoy the visual effects and leave the slender story alone.
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'Into The Storm' is all about the spectacle of destruction...
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The point of The Hundred-Foot Journey is to give the viewer a tasting menu that covers everything from heartwarming home cooking to molecular gastronomy (which according to this film is just strange-looking, soulless food rather than the crazy, magical experience that the cuisine actually offers when it's done expertly). However, without Mirren and Puri to keep things fresh, The Hundred-Foot Journey ends up feeling like a banquet made of leftovers that's going on for entirely too long.
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The movie works best when it forays bravely into the tornado, conjuring up suitably awe-inspiring acts of devastation, and is at its most tedious when it tries to establish emotional connections with its characters, including Richard Amritage's suspiciously buff school vice-principal and Sarah Wayne Callies's anxious single mother and weather scientist.
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Nature's fury dished out for the sake of satiating guilty pleasures
Credits
Richard ArmitageGary Morris
Sarah Wayne CalliesAllison Stone
Matt WalshPete
Nathan KressTrey
Arlen EscarpetaDaryl
Jeremy SumpterJacob
Kyle DavisDonk
Jon ReepReevis
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