Into the Storm - 22/08/2014
Back in 1996, Bill Paxton showed us the power of a class 5 tornado and we all now know what it is like in the "eye of the storm". Nearly twenty years later we have had super tornadoes in The Day After Tomorrow and even two shark infested 'nado's, you think things would have moved on.
Into the Storm is pointlessly done as a documentary style film with found footage shaky cam to get us as close the windy funnels as possible. As a group of storm chasers find themselves in a quaint little town in middle America, a freak weather storm creates multiple, possibly sentient with the way the act, tornado's that cause the usual devastation and heartbreak along the way.
The plot is almost identical to The Day After Tomorrow, just without all the special effects and Rolan Emmerich's CGI insanity. Tornado's hit, family separated, team of specialists, nothing they can do, finish with a Super Tornado for good measure.
The one thing that really annoyed me throughout was the lack of care for the filming. As it was portrayed as a documentary, hand held camera film there were so many points that all of the people holding the camera were on screen together at the same time...so who was holding the camera? There were other parts that no camera's were present yet still filmed. I would have been more worried about all the floating cameras that were obviously taking over this town than the windy situations. Even vans evidently had no cameras on them suddenly had wheel cam to show the viewer the drama. There was no need for the film to be done in this way, it would have worked perfectly fine as a standard Twister type film.
I found myself getting more and more irritated by the "floaty cams" to the point were I actually think I said aloud, "Who is filming this?"
Not a good film
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