500 MPH Storm

2013
TV-PG
1h 26m

IMDb RATING

2.3/10

2.5K

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Disaster Survival Action Adventure Drama Sci-Fi Thriller

When an energy experiment goes haywire, a rash of massive hurricanes rips across North America. A scientist must get his family to safety before the hurricanes merge, creating a "hypercane" ... Read allWhen an energy experiment goes haywire, a rash of massive hurricanes rips across North America. A scientist must get his family to safety before the hurricanes merge, creating a "hypercane" with the power to wipe America off the map.When an energy experiment goes haywire, a rash of massive hurricanes rips across North America. A scientist must get his family to safety before the hurricanes merge, creating a "hypercane" with the power to wipe America off the map.

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IMDb RATING

2.3/10

2.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
At 28:41 neither of the vehicles in the collision has an engine suggesting the film crew flatbedded the two junkers to the site.

Goofs
In the final scenes, the crew is seen flying through the air in a CH-53 helicopter; when the scene changes to the view in the cockpit, it appears they are in a Bell 206/406 with a yoke from a Robinson R22; when the scene change to the missile being fired, they appear to now be in Eurocopter AS365; and, finally after landing, there is a UH-60 Blackhawk on the tarmac. Aside from the sporadic aircraft changes, none actually have the capability to fire missiles.

Quotes
Gage: You touch that machine and you won't get a job at Best Buy.
Simon Caprisi: SHUT IT DOWN!

Connections
References Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

Soundtracks
Let Go That Weight
By Lisa Donnelly/Kevin Hunter/Rob Giles

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Review

Featured review

2/10

So what happened to the remaining 499 mph force?

With the title itself, you already know 'this is going to be one of those movies'. And yes, that is exactly right. Another disastrous disaster movie. But still, there is just something alluring to these cheesy and bad CGI disaster movies that keeps me coming back. Perhaps it is to see just how bad it is that does it.

Regardless, then "500 MPH Storm" is a disaster at 500 mph, indeed. The CGI effects in the movie are horrible - as to be expected. And you don't really buy into this being a 500 mph storm at any given time throughout the movie.

And for some odd reason, as almost every single time, in these type of movies, the destructive forces of the natural disaster follows hard on heel in the wake of our main characters. I guess mother nature has it in for the main characters, throwing just every single bit of poorly animated CGI effect their way.

The story in "500 MPH Storm" is right out of the "let's make a disaster movie" guidebook; people have created some device that wreaks a natural disaster of grand proportions and is unable to stop it. Just who creates a machine without a failsafe shutdown system anyway? Regardless, then it is up to a small handful of people to save the world. Do they? Well, you already know the answer to that.

Yeah, this is one of those excruciatingly predictable movies!

The acting in the movie was wooden and painfully rigid. And the dialogue offered the characters in the movie didn't really help anything along in a good way either.

If you enjoy campy and cheesy movies with horrible CGI effects, then you might find some fun in "500 MPH Storm", otherwise, don't waste your time on this movie.