Fire Twister (2015) User Reviews

With that title, you know just what you're in for

[Leofwine_draca · 3/10 · 26 August 2016]

Another in an endless stream of cheap disaster movies filled with washed-up leading actors, nobody supporting actors, and lousy CGI. This one's got Casper Van Dien in it - no stranger to the genre having also appeared in 500 MPH STORM, which is pretty much interchangeable with this movie. The story is about a private company who devise a new and deadly form of fuel, which then gets caught up in a twister and refuses to be extinguished.

As with so many of these films, almost the entire running time consists of a central family who find themselves caught up in an almost sentient disaster which then proceeds to chase them all over the country. Shots of the fire twister chasing a jeep must take up at least half of the running time. The acting is wooden, the characters are made of cardboard, and the movie exudes cheapness from every poor. I love the over the top nature of the evil company which sends a machine-gun toting hit squad after any witnesses to this man-made catastrophe; totally over the top and cheesy with it. The only positive I can find to say about FIRE TWISTER is that the CGI effects aren't quite as terrible as is the norm for this genre.

Fire Twister goes all up in smoke

[marshalphipps · 2/10 · 9 May 2017]

This film delivers fun cheesy low budget entertainment, that's if your expecting crappy CGI, substandard acting, and destruction which consists of stock footage. Fire Twister is definitely the low point of cheap tornado films, it does worse than Sharknado since it has a more rushed feel to it. It's almost as if the producers weren't really trying with this film, especially since the special effects resembles something you would get from Adobe After Effects.

I doubt this film can be classified as so bad it's good, there are some points where you can have a chuckle but those moments only serve as a temporary distraction from the overall shoddy feel of the film.

Fire Twister is a total dumpster fire.

Torch-Nado? Ugh

[13Funbags · 2/10 · 23 July 2019]

A sentient tornado made of fire, trained assassins who couldn't hit the side of a barn with a machine gun and characters who are not only easily fooled multiple times but can also easily find everything they need to destroy this thing, while every cop in the city is after them. I guess I only have myself to blame for watching this movie. What was I expecting? Did I think it might be good? If you see this on tv or somehow come across the dvd, run like it's an actual 10 story fire twister.

One terrible, abomination - but didn't expect anything else

[kevin-headley1 · 1/10 · 9 July 2016]

First off, I normally don't post reviews, but this film compelled me to.

It's a Saturday morning, and I ended up watching this TV movie. Please save your self 90 mins (because you'll never get them back) and don't watch this. From the poor CGI, cardboard acting and terrible story line this film watches like a turd covered in puke, gently heated would smell like...absolutely terrible!

The flaming twister is some shots is no wider than a street so all it needs is a hose down from a fire engine and it would be out....but noooooo, not in this film.

I have no words for whatever this was.

[mustang5201 · 1/10 · 24 November 2015]

Wow! I just can't wrap my head around how bad this film is. And I LOVE disaster movies. Movies made by "The Asylum", yea I actually like them. But this? The graphics look like a two year old was in charge. If you are going to make a movie heavy on graphics, try investing in those graphics or don't make the movie! The plot is horrible. And the acting, really really bad. But I could deal with that if only the graphics were half way decent! I'd rather watch Sharknado then ever watch this movie again. Don't waste your time. I don't understand why this movie was ever made. I have literally never watched a disaster movie I hated this much.

So stupid

[larryshraver · 15 September 2018]

Did you notice how, when they were all in the car going in reverse, the twister came after them, not anywhere else just the car, and when they got out of the car they could all lay on the ground about 8 feet from it , while it picked up their car and then veered off, so really they don't have to run from it, it's the car it wants lol.

This wasn't part of the orientation package

[nogodnomasters · 4/10 · 20 January 2018]

Someone said, "I can create a CG fire twister, let's make a film about it." Not as good as the shark idea, but it has Casper Van Dien, who hasn't saved the planet in a "B" movie in nearly a month. A fire twister is let loose on LA (the facts aren't important) and Scott (Van Dien) is the only man who can stop it...and that scientist guy (Jeff Clarke). Scott has a crew of Warm Earthers with him as they drive around in a bullet resistant Ford (The Unstoppable) with the gang that couldn't shoot straight on their tail. Scott is a former LA fireman which means he is part Navy Seal and part chemical engineer.

This film had one of the worst escape scenes I have seen in a long time.

The film is described as "When a mysterious orb of light strikes a deep water oil rig, the massive explosion erupts into a ball of flames creating a swirling mass of clouds and fire."

That is not this film.

The kids might like it, or hate you for making them watch it. Made for US TV.

I discovered the DVD in Walmart; expect the expected

[the_glorious_sob · 2/10 · 1 April 2017]

I came across this Casper van Dien motion picture at Wal-Mart with the intent to find a really crappy disaster to watch & it pretty much was what I expected it to be. As a fan of "Mystery Science Theater 3000," this was pretty much not unlike the cinema the show has screened, & I'm pretty sure the observatory was also the same one in the comedy's "Teen-Age Crime Wave" episode. Van Dien was just one of two actors I recognized; the man playing the corrupt executive of whoever made the super-fuel or something was Joe Regalbuto, & has seriously aged since doing "Murphy Brown" 2 decades since. The SFX made me laugh each time I saw it; the good guys basically unleash what really should be just a mere blaze but turns out to be a 21st century version of the spinning inferno from "The Ten Commandments" that just moves about wreaking fiery havoc on Los Angeles. I was hoping the DVD had Spanish subtitles as I prefer not following the story listening to the dialogue to a movie I superficially watch. Nope, the DVD only had a trailer & I watched it on muting but I didn't miss much. Again, it's a ragtag bunch of misfits battling a monster fire & the villains who made it led by Van Dien, whose hair still looks great amidst hot temperatures. That's probably the advantage of the low humidity in California; no blow- dryer needed. Also the violence is surprisingly limited as nobody's flailing about in flames. I guess w/ this low-budget film they not only couldn't afford makeup & prosthetics to depict badly burned victims but couldn't even get a stuntman to cover himself in flammable jelly. In conclusion, "Fire Twister" is a typical DVD-only disaster film w/ an unfamiliar cast & a very familiar story-line per disaster films.

The synopsis is all wrong here

[waynegryphon · 3/10 · 26 August 2015]

First of all the synopsis is wrong. In the synopsis it spoke of a mysterious orb, an oil rig on the ocean, and had an air of supernatural terror to it. The film never even touched on the ocean, it wasn't on a rig and it did not have much to do with oil. In fact the film started out with five friends placing an anti oil banner on what they thought was an oil drum. They find a bomb that nearly kills them which starts the fire twister. It wasn't oil, it was a super fuel that would replace oil, cleaner, longer lasting, and synthetically made. Again no mysterious orb. The five dupes, um friends, five friends, must join forces with the creator of this super fuel and find a way to destroy the fire twisters. It makes me think that the dupes, um friends, never watched that John Wayne movie about fire fighting oilmen, a very large explosion to kill the fueled fire, it took them nearly the entire movie to think what a firefighter would have determined before it hit a populated area. That is to say nothing about the attempt at bravado showing for the bad guys mercenaries (made me think of someone with down syndrome trying to act like what they saw on TV, funny to some degree but not to be taken seriously).

Terrible

[giorgiobonfiglio · 2/10 · 29 August 2021]

This movie is utter trash. Poor plot, poor acting, beyond poor CGI (and it's heavy on CGI).

Hope this was initially meant as a tutorial "how not to do a disaster movie" and for some reason ended up being published, or I can't explain this.

Boring.. 66 min too long. ZERO entertainment value.

[adastra-00273 · 1/10 · 9 March 2021]

It shouldn't come as a surprise that no hairs, eyebrows,moustaches etc.. were singed in the making of this film, since at no point was real fire used or even camera pointed to. So that should give you an idea of what you're in for.

This movie should not be taken seriously at any point or in any way. At best is a really bad comedic parody (ecevpt none of the ppl making and playing in it know this) that may result in a few chuckles if you have nothing better to do with your time or you are one of those who likes to watch really bad films.. Unfortunately it isn't so bad that it's funny like Sharknado,Troll or even Birdemic: Shock and Terror. If at one point of the character was revealed as a cyborg then I might have Cracked a laugh but no such luck.

I've watched many bad films knowing full well they will be bad but most of them ended up being entertaining in the way I'm sure they weren't meant to be.. This movie is borderline that because its actually quite boring. I can get past bad acting and bad CGI and basically everything that's bad in this movie BUT there has to be some other entertainment value in it such as a lot of action and potentially a even more ridiculous plot than this. Fire Twister does not have that.

CGI is beyond horrid! It looks like it was either done with a phone app or some free browser app; and whoever made it either medicated, was having a laugh and joke or he/she was paid $50 up from for the entire thing and wasn't gonna bother using his/her hands to make those FX so left it up to their pet cat walking over his/her keyboard to do the job CGI editing.

Not clear to me why the fire twister is chasing those ppl? is it self aware ?.. Across a lawn that gets no fire dmg and one woman screams "Make it stop!" Ahaha God! At least it's funny. The chase across the lawn is hilarious.Reminded me Hot Shots. Bad guys shoot what looks like a lot of bullets from veeery far then yell "we need to get closer", everyone starts running, bad guys are 50m behind the good guys and miss each shot as the good guys duck and swat away the bullets, they hide behind car which causes the bad guys loose track of them. Good guys quickly hide in a ditch 2m away from car, bad guys come to the car look around and say "they not here" then walk the opposite way of course like in cartoons. Femme fatale shooting phones as a way of ending phone conversations if just pure cringe gold.. That was my second chuckle in the movie and it was all downhill from there. I even made popcorn for this trash thinking I'll have a good laugh.

Acting is non existend and after watching these people I now have doubts about their ability to fake a headache in real life.. Let alone an orgasm. The only explanation I can think of as to why theres such bad acting/screenplay/dialogue is because there was NONE. Was all improv. Maker's of the film just asked actors to show up to the movie set (made out of a park, 1 pool and 2 cars), made them read a one paragraph story summarizing the idea of what they trying to film and proceeded to yell ACTION! Actors then we're taken by surprise by : blowing leaves, 2 parked firetrucks, old cult couple AND bunch of off-screen ppl waving signs with pictures of fire and buletts..And this is the end result, well it's actually worse cause that would have been acted better.

Shots of the city engulfed in flames and smoke are just something out of a scrapbook.. shooting on a miniature set for such shots would have been better. This could have simply been done by filming cigarette smoke blowing over a scrapped city maquette while some dude is having a smoke break next to it, throw matchsticks and cracker poppers in there and you done.. that would have been much better than this pile of trash.

Blood FX had to be edited in! Looks like they had the fake blood recipe for "1 axe death", no one had connection to the one guy who knows a guy who has THE recipe for fake blood used in the " Passion of Christ" movie set.. so they kept it all for the bad guy being axed at the end.

Bad Guy beating to death with a golf club that woman they could have just made him beat a bag of beets and it would have looked better on camera than whatever app they used for blood splash FX. That would have been called entertainment and I can see myself eating popcorn to that laughing the moment I realize that's beet juice that's splashing around on the screen.

Could go on but I'm sure no one will even read what's been written till now.. But might save some ppl from wasting their time when that's not their intention to do so when planning on a movie night or moment.

Like a Dream

[michle53 · 10/10 · 12 May 2019]

Four idiots attempt to hang a protest banner on a fuel tank. While doing so, they do their best to provide exposition by nattering on about each other's romantic situations. They discover a bomb on the fuel tank! The bomb goes off and spawns a tornado of fire. The vicious, sentient tornado chases our protagonists down a hill, but they fool it by hiding in a sewer pipe.

I'm sorry, I loved this. I haven't laughed this much in a long while.

AWFUL

[leestanton829 · 2/10 · 14 January 2019]

Oh dear what an awful movie, terrible acting and graphics and so far fetched. Do not waste your time watching this film!

No Rating.

[larryshraver · 15 September 2018]

Completely phone and visual effects are stupid, one fire truck and a hose would have put that twister out.

So bad it was funny!

[janetmanderson-21998 · 3/10 · 27 August 2023]

What stood out most was how the two female characters Barbie and Carla, whilst running from one disaster to another, had regular access to make-up enabling them to touch it up between every scene. Spoilt for choice for various, ever changing lipstick colours. Bright pink, pinky red, neutral pink, orangey pink, red - you get my drift. Also lots of eyeliner and beautiful hair. Just looked ridiculous to be honest. Not a smudge of smoke or soot nor a drop of sweat.

I watched it as I do love a rubbish movie! Casper Van Dien has done so much better.

The storyline was completely unbelievable. I shouldn't have wasted my time but as stated earlier, I'm a sucker for terrible afternoon movies, especially disaster movies.

An absolute Z-movie and the lost cousin of The Room

[martinkosecky · 1/10 · 3 May 2018]

This movie is absolutely terrible. The acting is stiff and bad, the GCI is crappy and the overall plot is cancerous. It all feels like it was made by a 10 years old.

It Should Have Taken Itself Less Seriously and Embrace How Bad It Was.

[icocleric · 2/10 · 9 January 2022]

It tried to take itself way too seriously for the kind of film it was. I love bad films, but bad films that are fun to watch. This didn't have that cheesy campy feeling that a lot of the bad films who know they're bad films have.

So there's conspiracy theories, assassins a magical "save mankind" fuel that's good to save everyone, even if it does cause a semi sentient fire twister, that looks for heat and fuel source. It sounds like it should be the kind of tone a SyFy original would have. But it's actually played very straight, even though the concept is ridiculous.

There's even a pretty brutal death scene between a bad guy, and a journalist.

Not as bad as the others...

[eron-66006 · 5/10 · 10 August 2018]

While this movie isn't as hot as your average summer blockbuster, it doesn't suck as much as some of the other wanna-be disaster movies out there either.

You can judge how good or bad the effects are by the look of the fire. It doesn't interact enough with the characters, that's a big negative, but it doesn't look like a cartoon either. The practical effects worked pretty well here too...the really bad movies can't pull that off either.

Some of the plot is actually funny and well written. I kind-of missed all the puns and obviously lame jokes that some of those other tornado movies throw out there, but this movie tried to walk that fine line between ridiculous and fun and exciting, and I thought it did pretty good.

When you watch a lot of bad movies for fun it's easier to see how they stand out or fail in their own way. If you watch this movie just don't expect a well funded flick. Expect a goofy knock-off and you'll see it's good enough to hold your attention through to the end.

If you made film on a budget of $10...

[clive_tracker · 1/10 · 2 August 2023]

... and had enough left over to pay for a taxi home

This would be that film

Every scene is a treasure trove of plot, dialogue or effects mistakes.

Look for those special details.

Like people running across the parking lot to load papers into a car.

Why didn't anyone think of just moving the car closer?

The passage of the fire twister destroys buildings but doesn't ever scorch the grass.

Make up your own dialogue too.

Like when they use fire hoses as flamethrowers You just HAVE to yell out "don't cross the streams"

4 people with machine guns fire at a Fire engine to kill the driver but don't even break a window.

If you are looking for terrible films then this one is pure gold.

"Weasels don't get sucked into a jet engine"

[hwgrayson · 2/10 · 27 April 2024]

A group of unlikeable people drive around in a car. They are pursued by another group of unlikeable people driving around in a van, led by a woman who likes to shoot cell phones. There is also a 'fire twister' going around Los Angeles eating energy. This is a very silly film. None of it makes sense, dramatically or scientifically. My main reaction was, this was written by a ten year old. Nobody stood out in the cast, some of whom could do with acting lessons. Being a low budget film one could forgive the poor CGI I suppose but the 'fire twister' never seemed threatening or awesome. In fact I began rooting for it by the end and rather regretted its demise. The film is a complete misfire.

It's a fire twister!

[Woodyanders · 8/10 · 28 July 2021]

An explosion of new synthetic experimental fuel creates a huge tornado that destroys everything in its path. It's up to intrepid ex-firefighter Scott Nylander (an admirably sincere performance by Casper Van Dien) and a group of environmentalists to figure out a way to stop the blazing tornado before it completely obliterates Los Angeles.

Director keeps the enjoyably inane story hurtling along at a quick pace, treats the silly premise with jaw-dropping seriousness, and stages the fiery mayhem with rip-roaring aplomb. The game cast play the asinine material with straight faces: Lisa Ciara as the sweet Carla, Johnny Hawkes as jerky coward Jason, Leah Bateman as the perky Barbie, Jon Mack as ruthless mercenary V, Jeff Clarke as helpful synthetic fuel expert Anthony, Bryan Rasmussen as no-nonsense fire chief Logan, Joe Regalbuto as crooked CEO Mitch, and Brandy Redd as pesky reporter June. The dodgy super cheapo (far from) special effects are a hilariously horrible marvel to behold. Moreover, a dopey conspiracy subplot gets tossed in for goofy good measure, plus several folks are burned to a crisp and plenty of stuff blows up real good. A total schlocky hoot and a half.

Starship fire nuclear coaster.

[ee01239 · 10/10 · 31 March 2021]

It kept me looking at the screen.

Imagine the drama of a fire twister, thats this movie!

But really the edit and the plot is actually better than some major productions I've seen...

Much Better Than The Ratings Plus......

[larrybabbin · 8/10 · 30 July 2023]

It's my 5 year old grandson's favorite movie!

Yes it's cheesy. Yes the special effects are terrible.

Yes the roller coaster scene has worse editing than many Star Trek scene mistakes. Yes Casper can Diem is still around! Yes a Murphy Brown regular is the bad guy!

It's fun and better after the 3rd time watching.

It's amazing how many cheesy movies have been made over the years. Shark movies. Tornado/twister movies etc. Obviously the audience has been found! After this go find Ice Twisters, also on Freevee and Amazon Prime.

Can't wait to see Christmas Twister at Christmas time. Happy watching!