Oh Into the Storm where do I even begin?!? This is *ahem* one gem of a movie I tell you. As a huge fan of Twister, natural disaster movies, and of weather overall (I thought for two seconds in college I'd become a meteorologist and storm chaser myself), I was super excited for this film.
The premise is pretty simple, the movie follows two high school boys documenting the day of graduation and also a team of storm chasers making a documentary. The movie starts out way too slow and then naturally the two groups eventually converge when the town is pounded by an unheard of amount of tornadoes and storms. I don't think this movie would have been as laughable (as in the pathetically awful bad acting) if the story just skipped the high school boys and their father (Richard Armitage - who gives the worst performance of CPR I've ever seen). However, take them out, and you just have a retake on Twister.
As for the CGI, some of the scenes are respectable but others border on cartoonish. This combined, with the laughable acting, makes it appear that Into the Storm really should have been on the Syfy channel or some movie of the week on NBC.
Going in I expected this movie to be hokey, over-the-top, ridiculous, and full of bad acting just from the preview. Coming in with those expectations, Into the Storm did still manage to be some-what entertaining, even if I was laughing at the acting. However, I say save your $10 and wait for Redbox, unless you love horribly bad movies (hello me!), but seriously - wait for DVD.
Into the Storm opens Friday, August 8th.