Where to begin? Well, Nature Unleashed: Tornado is incredibly cheap to look at for starters with hackneyed editing, which was a big part of why the dream sequence was as disastrous as it was, and some of the worst CGI effects I've ever seen.
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There is nothing good about the movie at all, so much so that you get no novelty value whatsoever, only hair-ripping-worthy frustration. Nature Unleashed: Tornado doesn't even have that. My expectations were pretty low already, but I was expecting it to have some essence of fun. In one cult meeting, there's a guy with a Yoda hood, who sounds like he's moaning "Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum." (I think that's Latin for "I'll get you, my little pretty, and your little dog as well.") Clumsy nonsense that tries to throw a hundred things at a dartboard, hoping that something sticks. He encounters gypsies, cults, gratingly phony accents, psychos in wards having bad-hair-days, sinister conspiracies, demonic cloud-faces, legends, directors who are as untalented as he is, script writers who are even worse, and yawning audiences.
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Cut to 30 years later, the kid is now a big square jawed TV cameraman clod who still can't act. Whatever script there was to this thing apparently got vacuumed up with dad there's certainly no plot on the screen after that. The dad (but not the brat) gets a one-way ticket into the funnel cloud. This guy has a brat kid who follows him, wanting to get killed too I guess. Like all tornado films, there's an idiot who tries to film the twister in order to get killed.
And nothing about it makes you care enough to figure it all out. What an incomprehensible and disjointed mess.
Anyhow, if it was not for some decent looking tornado effects, which is why I wanted to watch this, I would have rated it lower. I do not really see where that fits into a movie titled "Tornado". The whole thing could have done without the satanic cult subplot. Plotwise, the movie would have been better with just the tornadoes & the tornado chasing scenes. This is not saying much, but she was probably the best actor/actress in the movie. Her acting was not as bad as the other main characters, either. The acting by everyone involved is pretty bad, terrible even, but at least Anya Lahiri was something nice to look at. This is pretty much when the movie went south. The Talisman, as the story goes, was given by the angel Gabriel to a king and would be handed down to the "chosen one", who would save the gypsies from the wind. Irena quickly identifies the necklace as the Talisman. This is where he meets Irena (Anya Lahiri), a gypsy woman who reads tarot cards.
Due to chance, Josh is sent to Romania to film a press conference & some kind of gypsy rituals. About the only not-explicitly-bad thing I can say about this one is: it's a worthy sequel to "Fire: Nature Unleashed (2004)." (Well, it's not really worthy, and it's not really a sequel, but the titles *are* similar.)Īfter watching the death of his father by a deadly tornado, Josh Pallady (Daniel Bernhardt) is left with just a necklace or medallion of some kind to remember him by. ("Well, it's not really the Future and we didn't have the budget to do a War, but we did rent a whole bunch of these empty cardboard boxes for Dan to get thrown through during the fight scenes.") Wow - if I could give this one negative stars (Note to IMDb - we need black holes!) I would. Perhaps the only remotely interesting thing about this bizarre mishmash of the meteorological and Roma-nesque is that it stars Swiss hunk-o-cheese Daniel Bernhardt, who played Agent Johnson in The Matrix Reloaded (2003), but who is much better known to Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans for his brilliant portrayal of The Runaway karate-foo guy in Future War. And unbelievable as it might seem, the movie (and I use the term very, very loosely) manages to go downhill from there. Thus completely sending the What-the-F***-o-Meter off the scale.
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Next, we cut to a scene in which his now grown-up son is himself a professional photog, covering some completely-out-of-left-field story about Gypsies (whoops, sorry, the PC term is "The Roma") being victims of discrimination in. Tornado Paparazzo gets his chain yanked and gets sucked into the whirling vortex of suckiness that is this movie. as if it being a "SciFi original" Saturday Nite feature wasn't a big enough tip-off).
The winds are clearly blowing his hair *sideways*, yet he's magically getting pulled straight *upwards* (clue numero uno that this movie is gonna suck bigtime. The movie opens with a stupid guy chaining himself to a not-so-sturdy backyard appliance so he can make a home-movie doco of a CGI tornado roaring by without getting blown away himself.
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