This movie is dreadful. It has a boring plot, seeded with cliché; horribly written dialogue; and acting that is equivalent to a high school film project or a local commercial. There's even an unnecessary "lost father" bit thrown in that "ties up" at the end when the father says to his daughter "that's a long story." It's even sexist. The selfish daughter runs away from home to get attention, punches a guy in the face, and he's carted off to jail for it; I wish she was caught by the tornado and impaled on a telephone pole---then the story would have made sense. The only thing good about this movie are the storm graphics which are fairly well done, but even this is ruined by the sound effects---stock monster groans that are repeated over and over again. Perhaps having the storm sound like a demon would have been effective if (1) they used something I haven't heard before in every monster movie or video game I've ever watched or played, and (2) they played it only once and very quietly so it's a subtle comment on how nature can sometimes mirror the hellish nightmares we thought were confined to our imaginations, not my Spooktastic Halloween Sound Effects Vol. 2 CD stuck on the part where the werewolf attacks.
Review of Storm Cell
