One of the worst movies ever, really. Maybe not the worst, but I can't think of a worse one right now... I wonder who made it, maybe some school kids, I don't know. It wouldn't be a bad first attempt at filmography by a bunch of teen friends, I guess.
Unfortunately I think we can assume that it was made by grown-up people... in which case it's awful.
By the title I wasn't expecting a masterpiece, of course, but I was kind of hoping in a b-movie, you know, a bit of silly fun, but the problem is that nobody can be saved here. The acting was awful, the effects were ridiculous, the dialogues not to be spoken of, nothing made sense, not one thing was decent.
The plot it's sort of the usual one: a rich bad guy plans an explosion for his wicked plans, the hero and his gang get involved by mere chance and decide to save the world.
That's pretty much it.
The enemy is a fire twister, obviously. Four people were about to put a pacifist stunt when Scott saw a bomb with the usual nice timer (who needed a timer there? There was nobody around, there wasn't supposed to be anyone around, so why kindly out a timer there? Who knows, apparently all bombs must come with a timer in plain view..).
Scott sees that they have only 30 seconds and instead of jumping down screaming to everyone to follow him while he runs away he turns to the others saying that they got a problem, there's a bomb there... and then they run...
Lots and lots of stupid things like that. A bunch of mercenaries tries to kill them from the start (but only after the explosion, maybe because they saw the bomb, we can let this one go). They have automatic weapons, they are supposed to be good at their job, and yet they can't hit four people out in the open. Later they can't hit them after catching them by surprise, being pretty close to them, and shooting like crazy. They try a lot, then they think of a trap which works, and what do they do now? They take them prisoners to talk, to negotiate... what?? Nothing, absolutely nothing. They shot in front of houses before, now they must do it quietly... another nonsense.
The fire twister is supposed to destroy everything in its way... the heat can burn a leaf quite far away... and yet they don't have the slightest scratch, a young mother landed on a tree...
the twister is chasing them and they lie down covering their heads... and the twister kindly moves around them, I guess, because afterwards they look in front of them and the twister is behind some houses... this twister really doesn't want to hurt them...
It's all so fake, there's really nothing decent.
One thing that I thought at first was a mistake it was actually right. The mercenary woman had a picture of the four of them and she said 'the three environmentalist' or something, which wasn't because she can't count, but because the annoying one was a traitor, paid to bring them to that location, of course not knowing that he was risking his life.
Let me just mention another stupid thing, the first half of the movie saw our heroes trying to 'find' the twister, as if a huge twister wasn't visible by itself, and this one was made of fire, bright red... and the world was constantly taken by surprised, people walking by without suspicions until the twister was right there... nobody had a smartphone (in 2015?) but still everyone had a phone, and yet the news didn't get around... apparently the news talk about it (let's not talk about how awful the scenes of the news coverage were...) but nobody watch tv here...
The twister kept burning a lot because it was supposed of being made with a new experimental kind of fuel, based on hydrogen, that is attracted to heat to sustain itself... and for some reason a big explosion can put it out.
I mean, the plot is absurd, but it could have still served an acceptable b-movie if anything, at least one single thing had been good. But no.
The acting and directing are the worst, really.
Nothing is acceptable here.
I really can't understand how things like this get around, really...
Scott - Casper Van Dien
Carla - Lisa Ciara
ITA uragano di fuoco
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