Nice effects though.

Instant Favorite.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

30 years after April's parents death due to a tornado she is a author and a professor at River Point University. She is known as "Tornado Lady" because she is a storm chaser and she lectures on how global warming has made the planet's weather more violent. Really? Couldn't the producers think of something more interesting than global warming that is causing more severe weather? They could have used HAARP as the blame, that would have made the movie a little more interesting.The movie pretty much consists of drama between April and her daughter over a boyfriend along with tornado chaos here and there, but those doesn't stop the film from being dull. There is occasional excitement, but it's all because of the tornadoes. There's one part where there's a waterspout which reminded me of Twister, whether it was meant to be an homage or not it was a nice change.The visual effects are less than impressive, but I was expecting that since it's a low budget film. I thought there was supposed to be a tornado in a big city because of the DVD cover art, however that never happened.In regards to scientific accuracy this movie trembles. For example, the satellite photos of the storm cell that produces tornadoes resembles a hurricane, the only way that is possible is if the cell was a hurricane to start with which it wasn't. Once again there are roaring tornadoes, I've noticed this low budget tornado film cliché with Nature Unleashed: Tornado and Mega Cyclone, it unnecessary.The movie comes off as nothing more than cheap popcorn entertainment.

Now I actually wanted to like this movie. I wasn't expecting much from Storm Cell, but no way was I expecting it to be this bad. It doesn't even look good, with wretched scenery, further disadvantaged by dull lighting, unfocused editing, awkward camera work and cheap tornado effects, even more cheapened by sound effects that are just as disturbing as those in the Gene Dietch Tom and Jerry cartoons. The story is predictable and utterly ridiculous, with scientific errors that make even the worst SyFy disaster movie credible in comparison(and their disaster movies are riddled with those), the script is unnatural in both dialogue and the delivery of it and cheesy to the point you get toothache from gritting your teeth and the characters are either annoying or uninteresting. The acting is also wooden, with Mimi Rogers looking uncomfortable with her hard-edged persona here coming across as forced. Overall, a terrible movie, not in about two months now have I been so angry watching a movie. People will say that they get novelty value, but most assets are so badly done and inexcusably that I couldn't find myself entertained. 0/10 Bethany Cox

Actually, I found the movie quite interesting. It was exciting, thrilling and while not quite factual, it kept my attention. Sure it was not real, no sci-fi movies are and their not meant to be. The story is about an adult women who experienced a life changing tragedy as a very young girl that killed both her parents and now she feel compelled to try and help others who could be caught in a life changing event in today's world. Forecasters today are like fortune tellers. Always predicting some type of weather that will happen but never able to accurately predict where it will happen. They say there is a fifty percent chance of rain which means it may rain or it may not. And they forecast that it may rain in your area but what they don't tell you is how big of an area they are referring to. They really tell us a lot. This movie is full of advanced wizardry and special computer effects which provide the viewer with a more real life view of what forecasters wish technology would provide them instead of having to guess at raw data readings when predicting the weather. I lived in Florida for the past 19 years where forecasters claimed we should prepare for the worst during hurricane season. The retailers loved it as we would always run out and spend our money buying hurricane supplies only to have the storm go else where. Sorry people, but this is not a reality show nor is it supposed to accurate show what forecasters really do. Its science fiction drama meant to keep people interested in the fake movie plot and now that I've recorded it, I intend to keep it for future viewing. The water spout that formed on the lake which turned into a tornado was especially interesting, kind of reminders me of Andrew back in 92. Been there, done that.

This one hurt. And I'm usually a sucker for really bad Twister ripoffs made for cable. We've seen this plot before, twice. Estranged parent-child relationship, because said parent is too devoted to chasing that big storm. Parent is obsessed with storms because of a tragedy in their childhood. Parent predicts The Big One will hit right where estranged child lives. Child doesn't believe them. Child has has several tense emo moments with parent. Big tornado predictably hits, key characters survive, and everyone is happy. See "Devil Winds" and "Tornado Warning" for this by -the-numbers plot as well. Amusingly, they use global warming for an excuse to "move" Tornado Alley to the pacific northwest so they could shoot cheaply in Vancouver. As expected, the tornado effects are lackluster. The CGI crew just rendered the same tornado for every scene. I think what really got to me was the darkness of the movie. By that I do not mean a grim undertone to the story... but rather how literally dark the image was throughout. I spent a lot of time straining to make out various details like character faces and locales. The environment around a tornado can be very dark, but this was done throughout the movie. I can only recommend this to people who didn't think it could get any worse than Atomic Twister.