It is the implausibility of it all!... Everything on that movie is sooooo far-fetched and completely impossible it is litterally ridiculous!!! The actors are not to blame. I feel they were merely earning their pay - while acting in a very, VERY bad & ridiculous, TOTALLY IMPLAUSIBLE story. There cannot be a thrill when you are that busy registering all that is ridiculious in what is being outlived by the characters. Blame the author who was deluded enough to believe any audience could watch that without thinking: "Come on! Seriously?...". I gave a 3 because of the actors' effort! Boy! They must have seriously needed their pay!
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It's not sure it even wants to be a disaster movie
elle3128 April 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Darryl Hannah does her best as a tortured meteorologist whose tragic past leads to her to risk her life tracking hurricanes, but the plot is slow to start and bad but not even so bad it's laughable.
Most of the action takes place on board the plane so badly made it falls to pieces doing the job it is supposed to be suitable for, while on the ground the director of the National Storm Center refuses to heed her warnings (for a director of such a facility he seems unable to understand the significance of the data he's sent her to collect and unwilling to listen to anyone else's analysis of it).
Single dad Dylan Neal is the reporter Hannah hates at first sight, so naturally they're an item by the close of the movie. The other crew get brief back-stories (divorced, baby on the way) except the only non- Caucasian character who isn't deemed important enough to worry over. Guess which one survives? (the baby trump card plays yet again)
Worst of all, the movie ends as the hurricane hits landfall, so this a movie about a hurricane that doesn't in fact feature a hurricane. I wasn't expecting Oscar material but I was expecting an average storyline well told. Disappointing.
Check out "Medusa's Child" for a really claustrophobic on-board thriller, or "Locusts" for a Neal movie that's average but at least is silly fun.
Most of the action takes place on board the plane so badly made it falls to pieces doing the job it is supposed to be suitable for, while on the ground the director of the National Storm Center refuses to heed her warnings (for a director of such a facility he seems unable to understand the significance of the data he's sent her to collect and unwilling to listen to anyone else's analysis of it).
Single dad Dylan Neal is the reporter Hannah hates at first sight, so naturally they're an item by the close of the movie. The other crew get brief back-stories (divorced, baby on the way) except the only non- Caucasian character who isn't deemed important enough to worry over. Guess which one survives? (the baby trump card plays yet again)
Worst of all, the movie ends as the hurricane hits landfall, so this a movie about a hurricane that doesn't in fact feature a hurricane. I wasn't expecting Oscar material but I was expecting an average storyline well told. Disappointing.
Check out "Medusa's Child" for a really claustrophobic on-board thriller, or "Locusts" for a Neal movie that's average but at least is silly fun.
I wanted to jump off the ledge and take Darryl Hannah with me!
tlerner21 October 2009
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This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen; from a horrendously written story line (borrows from 'Twister' a lot) to inane dialogs and substandard acting. The second half of the movie I fast forwarded a lot because I could no longer watch Darryl Hannah's therapy flashbacks. OK, we've learned at the very beginning of the movie that she lost her parents in a storm hence her current interest in hurricanes ('Twister' rip off) but to drag those flashbacks throughout the movie was nothing more than sadistic. Nothing new was learned about her as the main character nor was it related to the development of the storyline in any significant way. The scenes would flash from a plane in distress to the calmness of her therapist's office every few minutes, thus breaking the continuity in the story. There are no special effects to alleviate the pain of watching this. As the film progressed it also dived into banality after banality. I think that there should be a fine instituted for script writers, directors, and actors who churn this kind of garbage. say, abstain form making movies for a year?
Not your fathers movies
vorkragresh22 October 2009
There were a total of two upside items to this film.
The first was that I got a good look at the 2009 Lexus Minivan.
The second was that at some point during the dry heaves I got from watching this 1 hour and 24 minutes of visual Ipecac, the popcorn husk that had been stuck to one of my tonsils became dislodged and I was able to remove it.
I suppose if you were a Huge fan of both Daryl Hannah and chubby chasing you might get some small pleasure from this horrible misuse of celluloid. I can only assume that this was made in a vain attempt by Mrs. Hannah to keep some semblance of her original beauty (let's face it, no one watched SPLASH to see her act) on screen.
The first was that I got a good look at the 2009 Lexus Minivan.
The second was that at some point during the dry heaves I got from watching this 1 hour and 24 minutes of visual Ipecac, the popcorn husk that had been stuck to one of my tonsils became dislodged and I was able to remove it.
I suppose if you were a Huge fan of both Daryl Hannah and chubby chasing you might get some small pleasure from this horrible misuse of celluloid. I can only assume that this was made in a vain attempt by Mrs. Hannah to keep some semblance of her original beauty (let's face it, no one watched SPLASH to see her act) on screen.
Ed Wood Would Have Been Proud!
mortwerks16 August 2019
I don't usually write reviews, but five minutes into this talkie, I had to research the Director (George Mendeluk) here on IMDb to see if anyone let him direct (or would fund) another picture with him after this was made. Oddly enough, it seems (as of the time I am writing this) that later, Mendeluk got the keys to the car 5 more times, though 3 of the 5 were "TV Movies". This means that apparently there were five other people somewhere that thought this effort was so good that it warranted a follow-up effort.
So let's examine this tragic train wreck of cinematic wonder, shall we?
Good writing can sometimes save a mundane movie from the abyss, but here the writing goes out like "Thelma & Louise", gleefully pushing the whole mess into oblivion. The acting is as predictable and worthy as any ardent troop of twelve-year-old children's theater veterans fresh from their grueling weekend production of Peter Pan. And finally, the production values (aside from the hideously loud crescendos of background music, which mercifully drown out much of the obtuse dialog), still feature special effects worthy of Hanna-Barbera on the tightest of budgets.
One genuinely gets the sense that the ghost of Ed Wood was the zeitgeist behind this reprehensible heap of celluloid, in that it seems every scene was shot once, called a wrap, and then hastily packed up to move on to the next, and it wouldn't surprise me a bit to learn that this whole steaming mess was lashed together over a drug-addled weekend by bingeing frat-boys with a few extra bucks to spare.
That being said, this film does give me a comfortable sense of nostalgia for the days of when "Spanky & Our Gang" (or "The Little Rascals") would enthusiastically shout out "Hey, kids, let's put on a show!" ...and then convert the barn to a theater, collect canned goods for the admittance fee, and proceed to win the war for the Allies through sheer force of will alone...
So let's examine this tragic train wreck of cinematic wonder, shall we?
Good writing can sometimes save a mundane movie from the abyss, but here the writing goes out like "Thelma & Louise", gleefully pushing the whole mess into oblivion. The acting is as predictable and worthy as any ardent troop of twelve-year-old children's theater veterans fresh from their grueling weekend production of Peter Pan. And finally, the production values (aside from the hideously loud crescendos of background music, which mercifully drown out much of the obtuse dialog), still feature special effects worthy of Hanna-Barbera on the tightest of budgets.
One genuinely gets the sense that the ghost of Ed Wood was the zeitgeist behind this reprehensible heap of celluloid, in that it seems every scene was shot once, called a wrap, and then hastily packed up to move on to the next, and it wouldn't surprise me a bit to learn that this whole steaming mess was lashed together over a drug-addled weekend by bingeing frat-boys with a few extra bucks to spare.
That being said, this film does give me a comfortable sense of nostalgia for the days of when "Spanky & Our Gang" (or "The Little Rascals") would enthusiastically shout out "Hey, kids, let's put on a show!" ...and then convert the barn to a theater, collect canned goods for the admittance fee, and proceed to win the war for the Allies through sheer force of will alone...
The only thing that stinks worse than this movie is roadkill or the
rzinke-672-3012426 February 2010
The only thing that stinks worse than this movie is roadkill or the contrived and debunked science of global warming that they spout during the movie. The global warming is of course the cause of the hurricanes. The acting is OK i guess, But only OK. The rest of it is pure Bull.... well, I won't say it.
I do not like shows that keep jumping from one time to another. this one is terrible in this regard. It almost makes the move unwatchable.
I have always been a Daryl Hannah fan but I think she should have saved all of us the agony of seeing her in her faded glory and just stayed retired in her "carbon neutral" home. It figures tho, these Hollywood types always have to jump on the bandwagon if there is a new environmental cause.
Don't waste your time with this tripe. I wouldn't feed it to my dog
I do not like shows that keep jumping from one time to another. this one is terrible in this regard. It almost makes the move unwatchable.
I have always been a Daryl Hannah fan but I think she should have saved all of us the agony of seeing her in her faded glory and just stayed retired in her "carbon neutral" home. It figures tho, these Hollywood types always have to jump on the bandwagon if there is a new environmental cause.
Don't waste your time with this tripe. I wouldn't feed it to my dog
What a mess
Sjhm20 August 2019
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This movie doesn't know what it wants to be, and the result is an absolute mess. It ticks off all the tropes along the way, the uncaring director more interested in schmoozing politicians than in what is going on in front of him, the concerned researcher on the ground who can't get his boss to listen, and a plane load of people from the seasoned veteran flying the aircraft to the journalist who is on the flight for reasons and in the perfect place at the right(wrong) time. At the apex we have the controversial female storm chaser with a plane load of emotional baggage who is also perfectly placed for that essential I told you so. Having ticked off the checklist of stock cardboard characters, the action is dreadful, the dialogue veers wildly from scientific mumbo-jumbo to almost noir-like monologues from the main female character which serve to explain her. The info dump of her emotional issues is scattered through the film which only serves to add to the confused mess that the movie is. The side story of the journalist's daughter is another utterly predictable complication. It's a shame, this could have been so much more than a bland, by the numbers movie, stumbling incompetently in the footsteps of others.
Oh dear!
davlaw-206381 January 2020
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Yep, this is garbage alright. Most of the aircraft crew are too jittery to be engaged for such work in real life. Yes, the flashbacks with Hannah's therapist are not only unnecessary but also stupid. Hannah is obviously selling her own global warming beliefs but the hated reporter reluctantly taken along does point out in a way that the jury is out. Ridiculous scene when she let's him launch a probe. And I'm only 35 minutes in!
hurricane hunters
kairingler2 February 2010
at first i wasn't quite sure what to make of this made for TV movie. it wasn't that bad actually, although Daryl Hannah seems quite out of place, doesn't seem to fit her character very well, the plot centers around a reporter who climbs aboard a hurricane hunting plane, they all suit up and fly through the eye of the hurricane, our main character has issues with hurricanes as when she was a little girl she lost both of her parents to one. during the film you see bits and pieces of the interview she has with her psychiatrist and you also see "flashback" of the hurricane that killed her parents when she was a child. the stormchasing sequences are very good also,, this is not a bad TV movie, and the plot seems solid enough,, i just think Daryl Hannah was out of place ,, out of her element in this film.
so bad
HattieWheatfield24 October 2010
If I could give this movie a minus score, that would be generous. This is an awful movie. Terrible plot, terrible acting, terrible writing and terrible graphics. It tries to be "Twister", but fails, miserably. And what is with Darryl Hannah's face? She has had so much plastic surgery or something, she doesn't even resemble the Darryl we all know and dislike. Maybe that's her goal, I don't know, but watching her was PAINFUL! The whole movie is painful to watch. I think it was also trying to be a "global warming" warning, but they even screwed that up. As they said themselves in the movie, "the ice age eventually melted, and man wasn't even around then". Exactly. Global warming my aunt Fanny. This was just a terrible terrible mess of a movie. I am mad at myself for losing two hours to this horrible movie.
Worse than wasting time
info-1410316 September 2010
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The movie poster of Storm Seekers shows Daryl Hannah as an attractive young professional female. The movie itself though shows Hannah as a very unprofessional and utterly unattractive woman who has a psychological problem so profound that she compulsively puts the lives of her crew in danger. Now that could have been fine if the acting was good and the plot were worth the wile. It isn't. Nearly all the action takes place inside the cabin of a plane rigged as a flying meteorological laboratory. Every thirty or so seconds the director serves us with pale flashbacks to meetings between Hannah and her psychologist that are so incredibly boring because of the unbearable shallowness of the dialogs and the stupidity of the psychology which make it impossible to feel any sympathy. There are more flashbacks, to the time where Hannah was a child. And weird scenes with Hannah watching and holding white lily's that ignite spontaneously. I guess these scenes are there to give the movie a sense of intellectual and spiritual importance. They don't.
Hannah has always been bad at acting and bad acting is what she does in this movie. But there were times when you could forget about that and just watch her sovereign beauty. She has lost all of her beauty unfortunately and so there's nothing left to watch.
Here's a preview of what you may expect: the plane is falling from the sky while going in the eye of the storm. Hannah gives the pilot a serious advice: "You have to get the plane up, Henry". And this was one of the least stupid lines.
This movie is an embarrassment to all intelligent beings. If you watch it, you'll not be just wasting your time, you'll be deeply offended.
Hannah has always been bad at acting and bad acting is what she does in this movie. But there were times when you could forget about that and just watch her sovereign beauty. She has lost all of her beauty unfortunately and so there's nothing left to watch.
Here's a preview of what you may expect: the plane is falling from the sky while going in the eye of the storm. Hannah gives the pilot a serious advice: "You have to get the plane up, Henry". And this was one of the least stupid lines.
This movie is an embarrassment to all intelligent beings. If you watch it, you'll not be just wasting your time, you'll be deeply offended.
Weird, lifetime-esque film.
axelhawkins16 December 2023
Warning: Spoilers
The 2009 made-for-television film Storm Seekers, starring 1980s sex symbol Darryl Hannah, centers on a team of Florida meteorologists' disastrous data-collecting mission into the eye of a hurricane. Although this film says so little about the hurricane supposedly at the center of its plot, one of Hannah's character Leah Kaplan's main conflicts is with a National Hurricane Center director. Despite Kaplan's observations that "Hurricane Josephine" is heading straight for Jacksonville, Florida, and has rapidly strengthened to a Category 5 storm, the director refuses to order an evocation because he is more concerned that Houston, Texas will be hit by "Hurricane Ike". Eventually, after one death and several near-deaths aboard the aircraft, the director needs Kaplan's warnings and orders an evacuation of Jacksonville, and the city is saved. While this plot point is highly unlikely to occur in the actual National Hurricane Center, it is true that failure to evacuate when faced with strong hurricanes can cause staggering death tolls. This tragic occurrence was seen in 1900 in Galveston, Texas, when a Category 4 hurricane landed in the Texas port city and killed at least 6,000 (the most victims of any hurricane in U. S. History). The cause of these deaths was the failure to evacuate the town, as residents assumed that since no news had come in from New Orleans (where the hurricane had taken out telegraph lines) that the hurricane was now out of their way. For the safety of the film's fictional citizens of Jacksonville, it was integral that the evacuation was ordered, and this mirrors the the real life importance of evacuations in severe hurricane events.
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