Much like The Storm, people are trying to control the weather. We've seen it before, people. To borrow a phrase from a commercial out of the '70s, "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." But hey, we have Medusa's Face alumni from The Sea Beast and Tucker & Dale vs. Evil in this movie, so it can't be all bad.
Sure it would be great to bring rain to areas that need it, but at what cost. Apparently, the researchers and scientists in this movie didn't explore the side effects of their experiment. A digital plane releases several digital drones that begin flying in a circle. As they fly, they also release an agent to help create a cloud so it can be seeded to make rain. That's all great, but after they get a successful test under their belt, they also happen to produce tornadoes that freeze everything in their path. Spewing out deadly hail that can punch right through human torsos.
Luckily for the team creating the rain, there is a scientist turned science fiction author nearby who is asked to offer assistance. He has plenty of suggestions, but since the team thinks that he is just an author spreading conspiracy theories, they don't give him much credit. Don't worry. They later take his advice to blow a hole in the ozone layer to help save Portland, OR. Take THAT, environmentalists.
As far as the story goes, this is not that wretched of a plot. What made it suffer for me was the addition of the author. He just happens to know just as much about the situation as the people who have been working on this particular project for three years. It's nonsense. Not to say that he wasn't vital to the story, I just thought that he was added in rather oddly. The wicked official from Washington D.C. wasn't totally necessary either.
I give this movie 1 out of 5 tornado thrown locomotives.
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Triassic Attack
If you like dinosaur skeletons rampaging about, have I got a movie for you.
Stayton University, located in Mills County, Oregon, has purchased land from the town to expand the university and attempt to revitalize the community. The townspeople feel cheated and one Native-American man decides to take matters in his own hands. He breaks into a museum, which apparently has no security at all, and performs a ritual with some artifacts. The skeletal remains of three dinosaurs come to life and are released into the town. "What have I done?" Probably doomed us all.
The destruction and kill scenes are pretty terrible. A leader of a fraternity is "eaten" by the T-Rex, but since it has no skin/throat/stomach, the body simply falls back to the ground. I thought that was pretty funny and if you had a heart, you would think so too.
One of the poorer parts of the movie is when one of the smaller dinosaur skeletons is chasing down the police vehicle. The sheriff lines up his SUV and rams the skeleton, which reforms after being broken apart. The solution is to "run fast". Good thinking.
After several failed attempts to kill the creatures, the solution is to perform another ceremony with the artifacts. Lightning strikes are going to save the day, but when the guy performing the ceremony is injured, the sheriff's crew turn to the local substation to create their own lightning. It's hard to describe, but one of the cables is severed so the circuit cannot be completed to kill the skeleton. The guy who built the lightning contraption holds the ends of the cable together and the switch is thrown. 100,000 volts is sent into the circuit and throws him back a few paces. Not only does it not kill him, the cables are left intact for a second use. That's Hollywood for you.
One of the brighter moments in the movie is when the pterodactyl bones and T-Rex bones reconstruct to form this one colassal super-flying-dinosaur skeleton.
I give this movie 1 1/2 out of 5 colassal super-flying-dinosaur skeletons.
Stayton University, located in Mills County, Oregon, has purchased land from the town to expand the university and attempt to revitalize the community. The townspeople feel cheated and one Native-American man decides to take matters in his own hands. He breaks into a museum, which apparently has no security at all, and performs a ritual with some artifacts. The skeletal remains of three dinosaurs come to life and are released into the town. "What have I done?" Probably doomed us all.
The destruction and kill scenes are pretty terrible. A leader of a fraternity is "eaten" by the T-Rex, but since it has no skin/throat/stomach, the body simply falls back to the ground. I thought that was pretty funny and if you had a heart, you would think so too.
One of the poorer parts of the movie is when one of the smaller dinosaur skeletons is chasing down the police vehicle. The sheriff lines up his SUV and rams the skeleton, which reforms after being broken apart. The solution is to "run fast". Good thinking.
After several failed attempts to kill the creatures, the solution is to perform another ceremony with the artifacts. Lightning strikes are going to save the day, but when the guy performing the ceremony is injured, the sheriff's crew turn to the local substation to create their own lightning. It's hard to describe, but one of the cables is severed so the circuit cannot be completed to kill the skeleton. The guy who built the lightning contraption holds the ends of the cable together and the switch is thrown. 100,000 volts is sent into the circuit and throws him back a few paces. Not only does it not kill him, the cables are left intact for a second use. That's Hollywood for you.
One of the brighter moments in the movie is when the pterodactyl bones and T-Rex bones reconstruct to form this one colassal super-flying-dinosaur skeleton.
I give this movie 1 1/2 out of 5 colassal super-flying-dinosaur skeletons.
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