NYC: Tornado Terror

3.6
2008 1 hr 30 min Drama , Action , Thriller , Science Fiction

An unexplained, local split in the atmosphere causes a series of total unpredictable, yet devastating tornadoes. Rookie fireman Brian Flynn gets trapped in the underground sewage with his girlfriend, deputy mayor James 'Jim' Lawrence and climatologist Dr. Cassie Lawrence's niece Lori. Mayor Leonardo of New York initially refuses to pay proper attention to the phenomenon, a 'reelection threat', so the alert status remains too low for long. Atypical lightning discovered inside tornadoes adds unprecedented dangers. The Lawrences and aeronautics renegade Dr. Lars Liggenhorn conceive a possible solution by launching rockets, but NASA's Dr. Quinn overrules them, imposing standard silver iodine.

  • Cast:
    Nicole de Boer , Sebastian Spence , Jerry Wasserman , Winston Rekert , Jill Morrison , Matthew Harrison , Jennifer Copping

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Reviews

Arianna Moses
2008/10/04

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

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Lucia Ayala
2008/10/05

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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Freeman
2008/10/06

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

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Phillida
2008/10/07

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

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yugiohmedusa
2008/10/08

I'm studying in college to be a Meteorologist,and while some of the movie was a absolute joke, some of it wasn't. The truth is Global Warming has been happening.Global Warming is simple it is the earth warming. Right now we are at a standstill,but in 2012,and 2007 there was a significant amount of ice melted at higher latitudes. As for Tornadoes,and there relation to global warming nothing, or very little is connected to that yet. As for the giant ball of lightning traveling through the building that was hilarious,and stupid. I would rate this movie a 6/10 for a aspiring MeteorologistA 3/10 for a regular(3 because you may laugh through most of it)I don't know which movie has more laughs this,or batman,and robin with Arnold Schwartzanegger,Uma Thurman,Chris O'Donnell,and George Clooney*this is kind of a spoiler.

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TheLittleSongbird
2008/10/09

Despite it looking the contrary, I don't take pride in criticising the majority of the SyFy channel's movies. Not all of them are bad actually, but even the best ones have flaws to them. While Tornado Terror is nowhere near SyFy's worst, it is down there among their many terrible movies. I have seen worse editing, but that is saying very little as it is very hackneyed here, and the lighting is dull even for a disaster movie. The special effects are also really awful, crude and very fake-looking and further suffer from heavy over-use. The script is unbearably corny, where I could have been biting my nails or admiring an intelligent line I was laughing unintentionally at the cheesiness at some of the one-liners. The story suffers from being very sluggishly paced and predictable in structure. This and how the effects are used throughout are the reasons why Tornado Terror feels so diluted on the suspense factor. The characters are irritating and not much is done to develop them, while the direction is sloppy and the acting leaves an impression that the actors had forgotten their acting lessons, if even that. On the whole, just terrible with no redeeming values. 1/10 Bethany Cox

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deanomac-inglis
2008/10/10

So I'm usually up for watching a good action flick. But this one just kills. Literally if the acting wasn't bad enough the burning of my eyes from the crappy special effects should be a good idea how bad this movie was. I know that I am never going to get back that 3 hours of my life. The red spot when you saw it as one person commented really did remind me of something you would see on Star trek the original series. I would not be recommending this movie to anyone. Yet another Canadian movie that for some reason they can't have it happen in a Canadian city always has to be the good old USA that has to save the day give me a break. No offense meant.

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Jack S.
2008/10/11

Since i'm a big tornado "fan", i tried to watch the movie last night on TV. The good thing: a Tornado movie! Woehoe! But that sums it up.The movie excelled in BAD acting! And never seen crappy fx! We are in 2008 and the fx look worse then they did in Twister (and those were already very bad). Let me give u an example: the first 'big' twister u see, appears just offshore to Ellis Island (u know, Lady Liberty and stuff). But it appears in ... blue sky. Now even idiots KNOW u need clouds for tornadoes. OK OK, u see SOME clouds, but more like little sheep flocking in the sky. Suddenly, out of nowhere, some black clouds appear and a crappy tornado forms in less then 3 seconds and tears of the arm of lady liberty (which blocks the way of 2 young, hunky but now trapped stars). There is not 1 Tornado movie on the market that truly creates an actual funnel, and this movie is not worth one minute of your time! See something else!

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